Resource Type

Automatic Safety-Burner (open access)

Automatic Safety-Burner

Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Splettstosser, Fritz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Buggy-Top and Rein and Robe Holder. (open access)

Combined Buggy-Top and Rein and Robe Holder.

Patent for a combined buggy top shock buffer and rein and lap robe holder.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Hitt, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commode-Seat. (open access)

Commode-Seat.

Patent for a commode/toilet seat and storage cabinet that holds multiple seats that can be used to provide individual seats for each person using the commode/toilet.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Ainsworth, Lucian M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an improvement to aeroplanes which includes movable horizontal and vertical planes (or curtains).
Date: February 25, 1911
Creator: Blewett, Baxter W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for the invention of a new conveyor, designed to simplify handling sacked grain.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: King, Marion A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Body Supported Brackett (open access)

Body Supported Brackett

Patent for body supported bracket for mirrors. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Birdwell, Russell J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Poultry-Disinfector (open access)

Automatic Poultry-Disinfector

Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Donathan, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Registering and Denoting Device and Label-Holder. (open access)

Combined Registering and Denoting Device and Label-Holder.

Patent for a combined registering and denoting device and label holder for use in stores to keep track of how many items are sold and what is left in stock.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Parten, Wilbur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Fastener. (open access)

Chain-Fastener.

Patent for a chain fastener for logging trucks, which can be easily unattached and works with most types of logging trucks.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Biskamp, Richard A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Preserving Wooden Poles (open access)

Apparatus for Preserving Wooden Poles

Patent for an apparatus for preserving treated wooden poles. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Logan, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cistern-Guard. (open access)

Cistern-Guard.

Patent for a device that guards the water cistern against impure water which drains from the roof of a building to which the cistern appertains.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Johnson, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety-Valve and Waste-Cock. (open access)

Combined Safety-Valve and Waste-Cock.

Patent for a combined safety valve and waste cock for cooling engines.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Fell, Julius P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Computing-Scale. (open access)

Computing-Scale.

Patent for a computing scale for weighing items and calculating their price per pound.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Cameron, Clyde M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Mechanism (open access)

Car-Door Mechanism

Patent for a sliding car door mechanism.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Gradick, Wiley Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Branding-Iron (open access)

Branding-Iron

Patent for a branding iron that expends less fuel than similar brands due to its combustion chamber that is able to better concentrate its heat towards the applied surface.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Thurman, Lee Onadus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Parsley, Samuel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale. (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Scale.

Patent for a more accurate continuous weighing automatic scale of such bulk materials as grain, cotton seed, etc. with a mechanism for automatical control of both a main and an auxiliary receiver door.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Williams, Andrew M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Axle for Plows, Planters, and the like. (open access)

Adjustable Axle for Plows, Planters, and the like.

Patent for an adjustable axle "for use in connection with wheel mounted or sulky plows, of the middle burster or lister type, or for use in connection with planters and other devices for tilling or working the soil" (lines 10-14) and which allows for the plow to run evenly despite the evenness or unevenness of the soil.
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Dalley, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete Cleaner (open access)

Concrete Cleaner

Patent for Concrete Cleaner
Date: August 26, 1916
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that is meant to "provide an improved means for controlling the position of the chopper blades." (lines 17-19) It is designed to make the action of cutting cotton more stable and precise.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Woodrom, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Scraper (open access)

Combined Plow and Scraper

Patent for "a combined plow and scraper, which may be employed to alternately break or loosen a surface that is being graded or lowered, and to scrape the loosened material from said surface." (lines 14-18)
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Reese, Edwin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Escape. (open access)

Automatic Fire-Escape.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Fire-Escapes" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Thompson, Herman E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Passenger Recorder (open access)

Passenger Recorder

Patent for "automatically auditing the number of passengers and the distance traveled by said passengers while en route on a train or other public conveyance." (lines 9-13)
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Rudolf Brown, of Cuero, Texas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner (open access)

Boll Breaker and Cleaner

Patent for new and improved Boll Breakers and Cleaners "for handling and cleaning seed cotton prior to it delivery to the ginning mechanism..." (lines 9-10).
Date: April 26, 1915
Creator: Kinne, Tempel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History