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
Boll Breaking or Crushing Machine. (open access)

Boll Breaking or Crushing Machine.

Patent for improvements to machines used for breaking or crushing cotton bolls "which will initially break the cotton bolls before the cotton with its bolls passes to the cotton gin." (lines 13-15).
Date: October 26, 1915
Creator: South, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tubeless Tire and Rim and Lock Therefor (open access)

Tubeless Tire and Rim and Lock Therefor

Patent for "an improved tubeless pneumatic tire casing, and an improved rim and locking means therefore, where by to effectively draw the edges together to render the same air tight" (lines 11-15). Also, this patent provides a improved "tubeless tire casing" where adding air pressure makes the joint air tight.
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap. (open access)

Trap.

Patent for a trap, which has a tilted floor that closes the door when weight is put on it.
Date: October 4, 1910
Creator: Newell, Alonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Playing Cards (open access)

Playing Cards

Patent for playing cards. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Hammett, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Faucet (open access)

Faucet

Patent for improved cistern or tank faucets
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Lowe, Stiles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History