Shaft Bearing. (open access)

Shaft Bearing.

Patent for Improvements in Shaft Bearing. This bearing shaft is used to withstand heavy thrusts.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Ball, Authur T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent introduces the inventor's specific improvements to oil-burning stoves. The air and oil are fed into the chamber of the stove and thoroughly mixed before burning.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Beckman, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Feed for Roller-Compresses. (open access)

Gin-Feed for Roller-Compresses.

Patent for a machine that carries cotton from the cotton gin to the the cotton compressor, and that cleans and forms the cotton for compression. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Apparatus. (open access)

Veterinary Apparatus.

Patent for a veterinary apparatus to help ease the administration of medicine to horses and other animals. It is a bridle attachment.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Biasiolli, Joseph J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Tack or Nail. (open access)

Design for Tack or Nail.

Design patent for a tack or nail that is both useful and ornamental.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Bogar, Fred A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tamping Machine (open access)

Tamping Machine

Patent for the invention of a new and useful improvement in Tamping-Machines. Includes full, clear, and exact description and illustration. Invention relates to an improvement in machines for tamping, intended for tamping dirt under railway-ties (20).
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Carley, John, W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sleeve-Tablet. (open access)

Sleeve-Tablet.

Patent for "a sleeve-tablet adapted to be applied to a cuff or wristband for ready access in making notes and referring thereto." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Carlson, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rain-Water Cut-Off. (open access)

Rain-Water Cut-Off.

Patent for a rain water cut-off that can direct the flow of water to one of two pipes. It allows rain water carrying dust and debris from the gutter to be directed to a waste receptacle that can later be switched to direct clean running rain water to a second pipe to different receptacle to be collected.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Crandall, Grover C. & Smith, Zay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a wrench which "may be efficiently employed in places which are inaccessible to the ordinary wrench."
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Culbertson, Charles P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a body having a valve-seat facing downward in its bottom, a valve having a conical guide upon its upper surface, a flange at its lower end bearing against the seat with a washer and formed with an upwardly-projecting eye or link at its top, and a rod for the attachment of the hoisting-rope passing out at the top of the bucket and having an eye at its lower end connected to the eye of the link" (lines 40-49).
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Fellrath, Charles John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Car. (open access)

Railway-Car.

Patent for a railway car that runs close to the railroad tracks, to prevent damage should it become derailed or in another accident. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Finley, Jefferson L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag. (open access)

Mail-Bag.

Patent for a mail bag, which opens completely from top to bottom to prevent any mail from being missed in the bag.
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Forehand, Blake
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge. (open access)

Hinge.

Patent for a two-way roller hinge for gates, doors, shutters, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support for Vehicles. (open access)

Tongue Support for Vehicles.

Patent for a new and improved tongue-support for vehicles. This design "is to provide a spring for bearing downwardly upon the rear end of the tongue, and thereby raising and supporting the front end thereof, to relieve the horses' necks of the weight of the tongue, and thereby enable them to draw the wagon more readily, and with less exertion" (lines 23-29).
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Ham, Zachariah Melton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose Reel (open access)

Hose Reel

Patent for a hose reel that makes water easily available to the people in a building that has caught fire and is more easily maneuverable.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Hamner, Edward M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Hardaway, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-couplings (open access)

Improvement in Car-couplings

Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 24, 1875
Creator: Harper, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn with mechanical assistance that will turn cream into butter faster than other churns.
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Harris, Jacob S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector. (open access)

Knee-Protector.

Patent for leg protectors that have "a pad or reinforcement on the knees thereof, such as will afford a sufficient protection against injury by stones or other hard substances or irregularities on the surface of the ground or other place upon which the wearer is obliged to kneel." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Herbelin, Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a clamp that is used in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Howard, Zenas F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer Distributer. (open access)

Fertilizer Distributer.

Patent for an improved fertilizer distributor to be attached to the farm wagon. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1886
Creator: Hurley, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Seeding-Machines.

Patent for the improvement of the seed-box so the seeds are properly distributed into the soil while preventing the seed from clogging the machine, including illustration.
Date: August 24, 1858
Creator: Keiper, D. B. & Fox, A. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Steam Engine (open access)

Portable Steam Engine

Patent for a Portable Seam Engine
Date: August 24, 1880
Creator: Kriebel, Hosea K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Apparatus (open access)

Quilting Apparatus

Patent for improvements in the quilting apparatus, that helps in stabilizing the quilting process as the center of gravity of the device shifts during the process.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Lawrence Monroe Caruth
System: The Portal to Texas History