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Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for a door for railroad boxcars, which locks tightly and does not swell.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Ward, Frank & Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet (open access)

Cabinet

Patent for a cabinet. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Dorsey, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp. (open access)

Clamp.

Patent for a new clamp to improve support functionality in household construction, including illustration.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Stevens, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device (open access)

Amusement Device

Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
Date: August 13, 1912
Creator: Dougherty, James P. & Beeman, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: Warren, Governor D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter. (open access)

Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter.

Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin and flour sifter. This design "has relation to that class of flour-sifters in which the sifting mechanism is secured at the lower end of a bin or receptacle containing the flour or meal; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device in which the bin is divided in two receptacles opening into the sifting mechanism, and having suitable cut-off slides" (lines 21-29).
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Williams, Robert E. & Trammell, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner (open access)

Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner

Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Gilbert, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship. (open access)

Airship.

Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Rainey, James E. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Energy Storage and Release (open access)

Process and Apparatus for Energy Storage and Release

Patent regarding a process and apparatus for energy storage and release.
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Imholt, Timothy; Allara, David L., 1937-; Gnade, Bruce & Roberts, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Lipids in Vegetative Tissues of Plants (open access)

Engineering Lipids in Vegetative Tissues of Plants

Patent relating to engineering lipids in vegetative tissues of plants.
Date: January 28, 2010
Creator: Chapman, Kent D. & Anderson, Richard G. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shoe-Heel Holder. (open access)

Shoe-Heel Holder.

Patent for "the provision of means for removably holding a heel in position for attachment to a shoe...as to hold it against accidental displacement during the operation of securing it to the shoe..." (lines 10-12, 22-24). It also includes an illustration.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Creed, William Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Driven Surface-Treating Machine. (open access)

Motor-Driven Surface-Treating Machine.

Patent for a surface-treating machine propelled by a motor. The design is compact, economic, and more efficient than previous machines.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Clarke, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lemon Squeezer (open access)

Lemon Squeezer

Patent for a lemon squeezing mechanism, designed to be more convenient for convenience store clerks.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Cooper, James A. & Cooper, Joel C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Voice Recording and Reproducing Device. (open access)

Voice Recording and Reproducing Device.

Patent for a voice recording "attachment for a moving picture camera, which, while a picture is being taken will produce [...] photographic record of sounds that appropriately accompany the picture" (lines 11-16), including illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Walker, Jack L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Sealing Newspapers, &c. (open access)

Machine For Sealing Newspapers, &c.

Patent for a new and useful machine for sealing newspapers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1900
Creator: Holland, Claude Van Nuys
System: The Portal to Texas History
Work Engaging Support for Surface Treating Machines (open access)

Work Engaging Support for Surface Treating Machines

Patent for work engaging support for surface treating machines. Intent of patent is to provide support for revolving sections of machinery in order to provide greater stabilization.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Clark, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Fuel Burner (open access)

Liquid Fuel Burner

Patent for a liquid fuel burner. Illustration included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Phillips, Bradford R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hot Pan Lifter. (open access)

Hot Pan Lifter.

Patent for a new and improved potholder. This design is "to provide novel means whereby the various sizes of baking and other pans in the equipment of a kitchen can be conveniently and safely handled without danger of the pan being accidentally disengaged from the implement . . . to provide a novel hot-pan lifter which will in use have a positive toothed engagement with the rim of a hot-pan . . . to provide novel, simple, and efficient means whereby the lifter or implement can be promptly and conveniently released from . . .the pan . . . by the simple pressure of the thumb" (lines 18-31).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Penfield, Matie B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutters. (open access)

Stalk-Cutters.

Patent for a stalk-cutter that has simple and inexpensive frame with cutting attachments. The attachments are independently adjustable or adjustable as one unit, and can be adjusted and operated from the operator's seat.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Nehrmeyer, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Picking And Separating Cotton from Bolls. (open access)

Process of Picking And Separating Cotton from Bolls.

Patent for a device to remove plant fiber from picked cotton (referred to as "burs" and "bolls"). The device makes the process of cleaning cotton faster and more efficient.
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Meier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mandolin. (open access)

Mandolin.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in mandolins, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Simpson, Roy Berkeley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Press. (open access)

Oil-Press.

Patent for a cotton seed oil press, which produces more oil with less workers and less cost and is much safer than previous machines.
Date: October 13, 1908
Creator: Hiegel, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Solidifying Mortar and Concrete Formations (open access)

Process of Solidifying Mortar and Concrete Formations

Patent for a process for making stone structures such as blocks, walls, slabs, etc.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Prints on Metal. (open access)

Process of Producing Prints on Metal.

Patent for a new way to print negatives directly on sensitized metal by dying the print, removing the dye stains, burnishing the "high lights," polishing the dye print and finally lacquering in order to make permanent. This gives the image a bas-relief effect.
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Snow, Philo V.
System: The Portal to Texas History