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Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Shaeffer, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Kitts, William Caluway
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Automobile Wheel
Patent for a type of wheel called a spring wheel, and will allow for simple and efficient means of producing a spoke, and eliminate the need for an inflated tire when attaching the spoke, including illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1913
Creator:
Lewis, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Book.
Patent for a checkbook holder that includes a special binder for check stubs, with instructions and illustration. When a new set of checks and binder are inserted into the holder, the old binder of stubs can be easily removed and saved, for receipt purposes.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Bennett, Paul H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Cultivator-Plow Standard.
Patent for an adjustable cultivator plow that is designed to be strong and durable as well as efficient and simple.
Date:
December 15, 1914
Creator:
Wright, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gathering and Exterminating Machine.
Patent for a new gathering and exterminating machine for killing insects and other crop pests, with illustrations.
Date:
September 4, 1917
Creator:
Haynes, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Brander
Patent for an animal brander with interchangeable characters and a holder for the characters.
Date:
June 3, 1913
Creator:
Hayes, Monard Vinson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane-Stripper.
Patent for cane stripper with v-shaped opposing spring jaws and double cutting edges on its blades. Its simple construction can be created at a low cost and then be sold for profit.
Date:
April 30, 1918
Creator:
Haynes, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for an improved wrench wherein various shaped and sized heads can be quickly and easily put on and taken off. This allows for the wrench to be used with nuts of varying shapes and sizes.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Davis, George W. & Davis, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inside Trimming Machine for Trimming Wooden Handles for Tools and the Like.
Patent for a machine to trim wooden handles for tools. The "invention relates to trimming machines and more particularly to machines for trimming the inside portions of wooden tools or handles, such as handles for spades, shovels, and like articles." (Lines 10-14)
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Kimerer, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Oil-Burners
Patent for the improvement of oil-burners in which it is “extremely cheap and simple, which may be readily installed, and which is adapted to burn oil practically without smoke” (lines 12-14). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Hope, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector.
Patent for a knee protector that enables the wearer to fasten the device to the knee and includes a frame and knee receiving pocket.
Date:
June 13, 1916
Creator:
Russel, Callie B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Indicator for Tanks.
Patent for a liquid indicator to determine if the supply of oil has been depleted in the crank case of an automobile's internal combustion engine. Further purposes of this patent include the closing of an electrical circuit when the oil in the crank case becomes low in order to sound an audible noise that alerts the driver that more oil is needed. The patent intends to make the invention durable, easy to use, and inexpensive to manufacture.
Date:
July 29, 1919
Creator:
Pippin, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tug-Clip.
Patent for a new form of tug clip which will not damage the collar to which it is attached.
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Duncan, Walter B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Crate
Patent for material improvements to a knockdown crate, including an insertable locking board.
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loading and Unloading Mechanism for Mixing-Drums or Other Receptacles
Patent for improving the regulating of asphalt and concrete mixers.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Hahn, William Berton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Stove
Patent for a hydrocarbon stove that allows irons to be heated on it.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Baker, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow augmented by an adjustable knife attached at the rear that improves plow cutting and stability.
Date:
October 12, 1915
Creator:
Barker, Spencer A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener
Patent for improved fastener for boxes.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Lewis, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco-Pipe.
Patent for improvements in tobacco-pipes by providing “an improved construction of pipe having means for filtering the smoke, and means whereby the nicotine and tar from the tobacco will be absorbed and prevented from entering the stem of the pipe.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Pen.
Patent for a new and improved fountain pen that provides a “novel means for manipulating the compressible reservoir” (lines 13-14) of the pen and of which the contents "may readily be fed manually, to the ink-applying portion of the pen" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Edwin Ruthven
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Closet.
Patent for a sanitary closet or a dry closet with the aim of providing the locals without sewage and plumbing an odorless and sanitary restroom facility, including illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1914
Creator:
Boothe, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop
Patent for a new more durable folding coop that folds up quickly and easily, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Martin, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History