Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads (open access)

Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads

Patent for an attachment for a bedstead in order to hold a tray. The invention allows a tray, or trays, to be held over a bed to hold food, drink, or other items closer to the occupant.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Beechie, Simon Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump. (open access)

Air-Pump.

Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Runge, Friedrich Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date: June 11, 1918
Creator: Stubs, Orace Virgil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench that can also be used as a pipe. Illustrations included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Green, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Tube Holder (open access)

Well-Tube Holder

Patent for a well tube holder for removing pipes from wells and holding them in place. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Preston, Lyman L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vulcanizer (open access)

Vulcanizer

Patent for a product that vulcanizes the rubber of tire casings more easily. It holds a combustible fuel for heating and has a curved design to better fit the shape of the tire.
Date: April 17, 1914
Creator: Lawrence, Arthur E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Cabinet. (open access)

Type-Cabinet.

Patent for a type cabinet for storing dating type.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Chapman, Mercer E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Cooling Device. (open access)

Water-Cooling Device.

Patent for a water cooling device in refrigerators and iceboxes that provides drinking water from the ice compartment.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Boyer, Robert Y. & Caldwell, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Storage Battery. (open access)

Storage Battery.

Patent for a storage battery with a high number of amps.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Lawrence, Arthur Ewin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Repeating Gun. (open access)

Toy Repeating Gun.

Patent for an improvement on toy repeating guns "which may be cocked and fired by manipulation of a single member and which embodies a magazine to receive a number of projectiles which automatically feeds by gravitative action into proper position to be projected by the striker or discharging member. " (lines 10-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: Osborn, Carl B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device (open access)

Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device

Patent for brackets used to hold edible fluids to be frozen.
Date: March 29, 1912
Creator: Beckworth, Effie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Cannon (open access)

Toy Cannon

Patent for an improvement to toy cannons to enable marbles and other spherical objects can be fed into cannon and fired providing a varied range of distance.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Osborn, Carl B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tool (open access)

Tire Tool

Patent for a tool designed to remove the tire casings from vehicle rims and also to replace the casing back on to the rims.
Date: August 18, 1919
Creator: Rylander, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator (open access)

Insulator

Patent for Insulator
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Williams, Roger A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Cultivator (open access)

Motor-Cultivator

Patent for an improvement to motor cultivators. It provides the operator a way to manually adjust the depth of the furrow and cultivator blade, including illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Runge, Friedrich Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cable Clamp. (open access)

Drill-Cable Clamp.

Patent for Drill-Cable Clamp is for a device that clamps the rope to which the drill connects. The rope can be rotated, while connected to both the drill and the drilling machine securely.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Clayton, Robert Fentress
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shutter and Ventilator (open access)

Shutter and Ventilator

Patent for a shutter that may be used as either window blinds or a ventilator. Illustrations included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Rylander, William Pitts
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber. (open access)

Shock Absorber.

Patent for shock absorbers the permit bodily movement on one of the parts to which these devices are usually connected in a vehicle.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Rife, Stanford Walton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector. (open access)

Plant-Protector.

Patent for improvements in plant-protection by providing a foraminous hood for young plants. This particular plant-protector is protect melon type and vegetable of similar qualities against worms, grubs, lice and other pests.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Cook, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Root-Puller. (open access)

Root-Puller.

Patent for a root puller for pulling up Mesquite tree root clumps.
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: McGehee, George T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same. (open access)

Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same.

Patent for a polish for varnished woodwork
Date: September 14, 1914
Creator: Hancock, John Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door. (open access)

Door.

Patent for a door "that can be secured in either open or closed position either from the exterior or interior of the building on which the door is mounted" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Niemann, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History