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Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil

Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Device (open access)

Cooling Device

Patent for a refrigerator for dairy products. Illustrations included.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Burkhalter, Milo W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Cutter (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Cutter

Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date: January 24, 1911
Creator: Leatherwood, Roy A. & Leatherwood, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compression Means for Fountain-Pens (open access)

Compression Means for Fountain-Pens

Patent for a compressor for fountain pens. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Tie. (open access)

Cross-Tie.

Patent for a railroad cross tie made of concrete and metal, which can be attached without spikes or bolts.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Whaley, Albert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves, which will convert most of the oil put into the stove into gas to provide better heating of the stove.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Bass, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake (open access)

Air-Brake

Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Paper Holder and Display Device (open access)

Combination Paper Holder and Display Device

Patent for a combination paper holder and display device, that holds paper towels and toilet paper and also has a display device to view.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Dalton, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster-Wheel (open access)

Caster-Wheel

Patent for a new and useful caster wheel with illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hose-Coupling (open access)

Automatic Hose-Coupling

Patent for an automatic hose coupling with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Herr, Herbert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Case for Rural-Mail Carriers. (open access)

Case for Rural-Mail Carriers.

Patent for a device to enable rural mail carriers to efficiently carry and store postal items for sale. The storage unit (device) is water-resistant to protect the items inside from inclement weather while delivering mail.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Campbell, Guy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cake-Stripping Machine (open access)

Cake-Stripping Machine

Patent for a cake-stripping machine which provides novel means for stripping cloth off the oil cake. It is also to provide means for trimming the cake after the cloth has been stripped off the cake. The scope of the invention is to improve generally and enhance the utility of devices of that type.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Button Display Attachment for Boxes (open access)

Button Display Attachment for Boxes

Patent for a button display to provide means to secure to any enclosing display to secure buttons.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Spivy, Reid B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridge-Truss. (open access)

Bridge-Truss.

Patent for an invention, which relates to a new and useful truss, particularly intended for bridges but applicable also for use in various other structures.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Beard, Eddie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burial-Casket. (open access)

Burial-Casket.

Patent for a burial casket made of plastic and woven wire fabric "of great strength and minimum weight" (lines 20-21) and an air- and water-tight lid, including illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hartman, Emanuel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Trace Clip (open access)

Adjustable Trace Clip

Patent for Adjustable Trace Clip. "The invention relates to an adjustable trace clip, and has for its primary object to provide a clip of this character in which the connecting strap between the back and belly bands may be adjusted with relation to the trace so as to permit the back band to properly fit the animal and also allow the longitudinal adjustment of the trace" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 24, 1912
Creator: Bradfute, Benjamine F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt (open access)

Belt

Patent for an invention that relates to belts. The primary object of the invention is to provide a belt, which includes an outer casing having a buckle attached and a tab slidably positioned within one end of the outer casing for coaction.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hill, Ulysses H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain and Shade Support. (open access)

Curtain and Shade Support.

Patent for a curtain device that allows for adjusting shades/curtains to different lengths or positions in order to fit the window they cover, without changing or damaging the window casing, curtain pole, or shade roller.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Odell, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for an improved method of locating the air blast apparatus for cleaning lint from the saw teeth of saw-type cotton gins, so that the cotton lint does not accumulate on the cleaning apparatus and render it inoperative, including illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hopper, James F.; Stephens, George B. & Young, Harry F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Separator. (open access)

Slime-Separator.

Patent for a slime-separator "to provide means for automatically regulating the separate water flow, and discharging the solid proportionally with the settling of the solids in the receptacle" (lines 44-47). The patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a machine to thin and cultivate cotton plants without covering them with debris. Designed to be used with most cultivators and to be inexpensive to construct.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Gunn, Jc. Christon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters. (open access)

Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters.

Patent for a carbureter that improves auxiliary air feed, wherein gradually increased quantities of air are harnessed as the speed of the motor increases.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Bills, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Stretcher. (open access)

Curtain-Stretcher.

Patent for a curtain stretcher where the parts can be disconnected and readily assembled to accommodate curtains of various types. It permits stretching without screwing curtains or disengaging them from the clamps. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Hiegel, Eugene J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cranking Device (open access)

Cranking Device

Patent for cranking device to start internal combustion engines and designed specifically for automobiles.
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History