Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines (open access)

Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines

Patent for a coin controlled feeding apparatus for coin controlled machines. The design is to prevent the use of iron slugs and spurious coins.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables. (open access)

Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables.

Patent for an improvement to canning fruits and vegetables.
Date: April 3, 1900
Creator: Compton, Anna & Jackson, A. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baking-Stove and Steam-Cooker. (open access)

Combined Baking-Stove and Steam-Cooker.

Patent for a combined stove and steam cooker for which water can be added without opening the stove/cooker.
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: James, Will S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Splitting Hogs and Cattle Through the Backbones. (open access)

Machine for Splitting Hogs and Cattle Through the Backbones.

Patent for a butchering machine for cutting hogs and cattle through the backbone into two sections lengthwise.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Burleson, Andrew M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Stay. (open access)

Wire-Fence Stay.

Patent for a wire fence stay, which holds wire fences together.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Bed Lifting Device (open access)

Wagon Bed Lifting Device

Patent for a wagon-bed lifter that will remove and wagon beds and position them for easy re-assembly.
Date: December 3, 1901
Creator: Slate, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove. (open access)

Stove.

Patent for a stove, which circulates air through a central drum and increases the amount of heat put out by the stove.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: Sanders, Ira B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Track Lifting-Jack (open access)

Railway-Track Lifting-Jack

Patent for "an improved device of this character which is designed for heavy work, as in railway service, and at the same time to have the device comparatively light in weight in order that it may be conveniently carried from place to place" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Bentley, George Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road-Working Machine. (open access)

Road-Working Machine.

Patent for a road working machine, which claims to simplify and improve the type of this machine that is designed to "operate upon banks at the sides of the road for the purpose of trimming such banks and moving the surplus dirt in the direction of the center of the road." (lines 11-14)
Date: April 3, 1906
Creator: McBride, William J. & Alford, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Puff Box (open access)

Puff Box

Patent fora puff box. This invention is for face powder. Illustration included.
Date: January 3, 1905
Creator: Hosmer, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History