Resource Type

Closer for Cans and the Like. (open access)

Closer for Cans and the Like.

Patent for an efficient, easy-open-and-close top for various types of cans which are used frequently.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Perkins, William Hunter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Cycle (open access)

Air-Cycle

Patent for an air cycle that allows a person to fly by pedaling. Illustrations included.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Price, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle

Patent for a bale tie buckle made up of hooks that will not come apart under pressure.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Eddleman, Dudley E. & McFarland, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Patent for an automatic weighing machine for weighing and dispensing certain weights of grain into hoppers.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Ball, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Crutch and Chair. (open access)

Combined Crutch and Chair.

Patent for a combined crutch and chair.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Johnson, Samuel J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that plants seeds in hills of equal distance from one another.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Roy, Henry F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with an adjustable disk.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Burton, Walter C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat-Propeller (open access)

Boat-Propeller

Patent for a boat propeller that runs more efficiently by turning in such a way that the load of water on the propeller is taken off when its blades are going up.
Date: July 16, 1912
Creator: Reames, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Charm. (open access)

Watch-Charm.

Patent for watch charms or badges with "interchangeable emblems" (lines 11-12) to facilitate on-demand charm or badge creation through a separate stock of emblem carriers and the "interchangeable emblems."
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Friedman, Bernhard Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wringers and Washing-Machines (open access)

Attachment for Wringers and Washing-Machines

Patent for an attachment for wringers and washing machines that allows the washing machine to be moved directly from the washing tub to the rinsing tub.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Flood, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with vertically reciprocating dashers.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Decker, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Slide (open access)

Coin-Controlled Slide

Patent for a coin-controlled slide used for operating mechanical musical instruments and vending machines. Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Hammond, Robert P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Support and Bracket for Shade-Rollers and Curtains (open access)

Adjustable Support and Bracket for Shade-Rollers and Curtains

Patent for a support for roller shades and window curtains. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Johnson, Thomas E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine (open access)

Advertising-Machine

Patent for an advertising machine for displaying various advertising cards in a motorized machine that displays all the different cards as it goes around in a circle.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Helm, Virgil L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Wiring Mechanism. (open access)

Bale Wiring Mechanism.

Patent for "improvements in a bale wiring mechanism, for baling presses, and also to an improved tie which can be made by simple mechanism" (lines 8-11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Wire Mat. (open access)

Flexible Wire Mat.

Patent for a flexible wire mat that is portable, loosely woven to shake out dirt and mud, and which prevents the edges form curling up to trip people.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Shelton, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatically-Operated Forge (open access)

Automatically-Operated Forge

Patent for an automatically operated forge which dose not require an operator to keep the blower going and heats quickly.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Dickey, Joseph H. & Roach, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude Oil Burner (open access)

Crude Oil Burner

Patent for a "useful improvements in burners for liquid and gaseous fuel" (line 9-11). Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Gregson, Emily G. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tying Mechanism for Balers (open access)

Bale Tying Mechanism for Balers

Patent for a bale tying mechanism for balers. This invention is "a tying mechanism to unite the ends of a tie or wire after said wire has been passed around the bale" (line 8-11). Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Swing and Other Articles of Furniture (open access)

Combination-Swing and Other Articles of Furniture

Patent for a porch swing that can be converted into other different articles of furniture. Illustrations included.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Sanders, Ira B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scraper and Fender. (open access)

Combined Scraper and Fender.

Patent for a combined scraper and fender for plows.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Buttrill, David B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Navigating Apparatus. (open access)

Aerial Navigating Apparatus.

Patent for an aerial navigating apparatus with more details of combinations, construction, and presentation of parts.
Date: July 25, 1911
Creator: Flanagan, Henry.
System: The Portal to Texas History