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Cultivator Foot
Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Rail Fastener
Patent for a bed rail fastener. "The purpose of this invention is to provide novel features of construction for a bed rail fastener, which afford a very secure connection of the ends of the side rails of a metal bedstead with the head and foot posts of the bed." (lines 9-14). Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Berry, Thomas O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1904
Creator:
Scott, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Engines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic stopping mechanism for engines.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Hunter, Victor Emmet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle
Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Allen, Orcenith F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton checkers and cultivators by “providing a device in which the width of the hills or rows may be adjusted to suit the requirements of various grades of soil.” (Lines 15-17) Another improvement is to provide a “means to which the plows of the cultivator may be simultaneously raised or lowered, and when so raised or lowered may be kept in their adjusted positions.” (Lines 19-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator
Patent for a cotton checker and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert & Humble, Henry O. V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bling Tenon
Patent for a metallic blind tenon. The end of a blind slat to pivot the slat in the frame of the blind. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Miller, Charles, of Del Rio, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber.
Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Gerhard, Philip H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Street Car Sign
Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
King, Alphonse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Sewing Machines
Patent for an attachment for a sewing machines. Illustration included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Bearden, Jackson Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
Date:
September 11, 1906
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton Berry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boats to "increase the speed and insure greater safety and stability in sailing vessels, row-boats, canoes, and the like" (line 12-14).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Evesson, Martin V. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Ventilated Crate
Patent for a collapsible vented crate for that does not require special machinery to build.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Williams, Lewie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that employs a reciprocating dasher in order to improve all parts of the churn and its operating mechanism.
Date:
October 11, 1911
Creator:
Edwards, Henry L. & Perkins, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Computing Device and Weighing-Scale.
Patent for "a simple, economical, and portable combined computing and weighing scale for ordinary use so simple in its operation that an illiterate person can manipulate it with as much facility as one trained to the practical use of more complicated devices" (lines 20-25).
Date:
July 11, 1899
Creator:
Stephens, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Easel
Patent for an adjustable easel.
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Mueller, Carl P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for a crude oil burner for heating stoves, which heats the oil to a high temperature to provide faster vaporization of the oil.
Date:
October 11, 1910
Creator:
Patton, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1904
Creator:
Bodungen, Clemens G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt
Patent for an apparel belt. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Reynolds, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAR-COUPLING
Patent for a Car-Coupling. "This invention relates to car-couplings of the Janney type..." (lines 9-10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch
Patent for an improved automatic railway switch based on an earlier model made by the same person. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
McGee, Richard M. & Jones, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Motor.
Patent for improving crank-lever churn motors for a more simple construction that results in a more lightweight but strong machine.
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History