Grease Dispensing Pump (open access)

Grease Dispensing Pump

Patent for improvements upon "grease-dispensing pumps"(line 7) which removes old grease and dispenses "mobile grease"(line 13) easily to machinery.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling. (open access)

Coupling.

Patent for a coupling invention that consists of a detachable key member and locking key member for a valve plug. It is meant to improve couplings for detachable handles of drain-cocks.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Copeland, Joe S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete-Mixer. (open access)

Concrete-Mixer.

Patent for a concrete mixer that keeps the materials low to the ground and has improved mixing and delivery mechanisms.
Date: October 3, 1911
Creator: Foley, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: McDonald, Thomas Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges. (open access)

Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges.

Patent for a new and useful ventilating canopy for cook stoves or ranges.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Spurlin, Crawford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ladder. (open access)

Ladder.

Patent for "a step-ladder adapted to travel upon a track and be moved to any desired place by the person using the ladder," (lines 16-18) including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Marshall, John Wesley; Bolton, R. B. & Marshall, W. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens. (open access)

Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.

Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Balfour, Emma
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elastic Chain (open access)

Elastic Chain

Patent for this invention is to provide a chain which yield longitudinally when subjected to a tensile strain and to this end arrangement of parts, as will be herein after described and claimed. [5-10]
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Redwood, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Building Machine (open access)

Fence-Building Machine

Patent for providing "for the weaving or construction of a picket fence by means of a simple and inexpensive machine, but one which will insure a proper binding of the pickets between the several strands of supporting-wire" (lines 10-14).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Kline, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence Wire Tightener. (open access)

Fence Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design "relates to devices for tightening the wires of a wire fence whether in the act of building the latter or after it has been put up and the wire is stretched thereon; and the invention consists of a metallic lever-arm adapted to be seated and adapted to turn in a hole in the fence-post, and upon whose body the wire is tightened as the arm is revolved" (lines 9-16).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Jinkins, Thomas William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller.

Patent for an invention "to combine and arrange a cultivator, plow, harrow, and roller, with draught-wheels, axle, draught-pole, and an adjustable supporting-frame, in such a manner that the several parts can be used together or independently." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1868
Creator: Thornton, Sterling C.
System: The Portal to Texas History