Breast Pump (open access)

Breast Pump

Patent for a maual breast pump. Illustration included.
Date: September 5, 1905
Creator: Ezell, Uberto Desaix
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Body Lifter (open access)

Wagon-Body Lifter

Patent for new and useful improvements in Wagon-Body Lifters. (Line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Reneau, Charley William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Colter (open access)

Plow Colter

Patent for plow colter. Illustration included.
Date: September 5, 1905
Creator: Cone, Jesse Fielder
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing-Case. (open access)

Packing-Case.

Patent for new and improved shipping case to store and transport oysters so that they may be surrounded by ice in travel and not be subjected to a great amount of pressure or damaged during transit.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Clement, Thomas Houlten, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hog Trough (open access)

Hog Trough

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hog-Troughs" (lines 5-6).
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Bookout, Hugh B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine Valve Mechanism (open access)

Engine Valve Mechanism

Patent for an engine valve mechanism. This invention is a "class of steam engines wherein the cylinder-inlet and exhaust-ports are controlled by separate and distinct values." Illustration included.
Date: September 5, 1905
Creator: Moore, Ezra G. & Moore, Frank T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch for Street-Railways. (open access)

Electric Switch for Street-Railways.

Patent for switches used to electrically control street railways. Intended to allow the motorman to electrically control the switches of the track from the railway car without having to stop the train to turn the switch on the track.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Posey, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder (open access)

Seeder

Patent for a new wheeled seeder design "especially intended for the planting of cottonseed and corn" (lines 14-16).
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Crossing Gate (open access)

Railway Crossing Gate

Patent for an automatic railway crossing gate. Illustration included.
Date: September 5, 1905
Creator: Miller, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines (open access)

Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines

Patent for a device for adjusting sieves in threshing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Steelsmith, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History