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Cleaning Implement. (open access)

Cleaning Implement.

Patent for a cleaning tool for cleaning chicken coops, sidewalk edges, or removing ice, which combines a scraper/digger, broom, and brush and which fits in small spaces.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Kuettner, Max
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer. (open access)

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an improved cotton packer, which automatically restarts when it finishes a bale.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Cass, Eral B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greasing Device (open access)

Greasing Device

Patent for a greasing device. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Overall, Ida L. & Bock, T. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Paper Bags and Other Articles (open access)

Holder for Paper Bags and Other Articles

Patent for a holder for paper bags and other articles. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Laird, Edwin C. & Bedinger, Singleton B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Box (open access)

Journal-Box

Patent for a rail-car journal box with "an anti-friction side and end bearing for axle, having means for supplying a lubricant thereto in any desired quantity the rings serving to constantly distribute said lubricant around the roller bearings" (lines 73-78).
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Washington, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive number Plate and Holder Therefor (open access)

Locomotive number Plate and Holder Therefor

Patent for a locomotive number plate and holder therefor. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Lape, John K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nebulizer. (open access)

Nebulizer.

Patent for a nebulizer, which has a spraying mechanism for delivering medicinal sprays through a nozzle to the nose, throat, or lungs.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: McGregor, Ringling R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector. (open access)

Plant-Protector.

Patent for a plant protector, which forms a canopy over young plants to protect them from the weather.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Caruthers, Martha J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a turning plow with "a wheel for operating in the bottom of the furrow in rear of the lower end of the standard, which...serves the purposes of an ordinary land side-plate..."(lines 10-13).
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Ausburn, John H. & Ausburn, Vivian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road-Scraper. (open access)

Road-Scraper.

Patent for a road scraper for excavating, which "automatically returns to an upright position after having been dumped" (lines 12-14).
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Heyer, Friedrich
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Device for Steam-Boilers. (open access)

Safety Device for Steam-Boilers.

Patent for a safety device for steam boilers, which activates an alarm when water levels are too high on the fuse box that gives an earlier warning, does not allow the fuse box to be changed without the chief engineer being alerted, and prevents false alarms.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Smith, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track Fastener (open access)

Track Fastener

Patent for railroad track fastener. This invention is made of metallic track fasteners and uses a joint for meeting together the ends of the rails. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Hutchins, William Dennis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Tool (open access)

Veterinary Tool

Patent for a veterinary tool designed to drenching, floating or treating animal teeth. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Jenkins, Thomas E. & Cator, Bert O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap (open access)

Ant Trap

Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Howard, Martin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton

Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Straightener (open access)

Axle Straightener

Patent for an axle straightener. Illustration included.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Taylor, John Quincy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp (open access)

Bedclothes-Clamp

Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Martin, Delia
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader (open access)

Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader

Patent for a pneumatic cotton thresher, cleaner, and storage unloader for use in cotton gins.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Lamb, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calendar (open access)

Calendar

Patent for a circular perpetual calendar.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Rowe, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Funnel and Dipper. (open access)

Combined Funnel and Dipper.

Patent for a ladle with an attached funnel for pouring the liquid out.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Hanson, Henry Harrison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal. (open access)

Electric Railway-Signal.

Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Stafford, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan-Deflector. (open access)

Fan-Deflector.

Patent for a fan deflector to deflect air to various portions of the room.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Carroll, Houston Monroe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pianissimo Device. (open access)

Pianissimo Device.

Patent for a pianissimo device for upright pianos, which "takes up the lost motion when the soft pedal is used by automatic means" (lines 14-16).
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Decker, Herman L.
System: The Portal to Texas History