Baking-Oven (open access)

Baking-Oven

Patent for improvements in the design and construction of baking ovens
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Baxley, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses. (open access)

Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.

Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Speight, Winchester Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Andiron. (open access)

Andiron.

Patent for improvement in andirons “which is so arranged as to permit ready access to the fireplace for the purpose of cleaning out the ashes and having a removable fender which is capable of being quickly and readily removed or placed in position to retain the fire and prevent the fire from rolling out the fireplace.” (Lines 47-54.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Cox, John Drew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-truck. (open access)

Car-truck.

Patent for trucks for railway-cars "of simple and durable construction the parts of which are connected together without the use of bolts" (lines 10-12).
Date: February 26, 1901
Creator: Rouy, Gustave
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Bank or Toy Safe (open access)

Coin-Bank or Toy Safe

Patent for "coin-banks or toy safes for containing hoarded coin" (lines 8-9). To provide a simple mechanism which "can be manufactured at an extremely low cost, which shall be of marked simplicity in construction, and in which coin will be securely contained..." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Fence. (open access)

Water-Fence.

Patent for the improved design of a water fence with specifications that allow the passage of a log without fully raising the fence; includes illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Walton, John H. & Ball, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for improvements to the wheel and operating shafts of windmills, including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1901
Creator: Byrne, John Richard Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for an invention that relates to locks. "The prime object of the invention is to provide a supplemental locking device for the holding element, which is entirely separate from the usual locking mechanism, so that should one unacquainted with the lock attempt to open it in the ordinary manner by operating said usual mechanism the holding element will still be securely locked and the attempt would thus be frustrated." (Lines 14-21) Illustration is included.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Rodrigo, Hendrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indicator (open access)

Indicator

Patent for indicator "for vessels by which to show accurately and readily the draft of the vessel, as well as any list and pitch that may exist" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Bennison, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Mower. (open access)

Lawn-Mower.

Patent for a new and improved lawn mower that "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts." (lines 13-14), including description and illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Stewart, Henry E. & Stewart, Luther F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus. (open access)

Ventilating Apparatus.

Patent for a ventilating apparatus "adapted for use in connection with buildings, storehouses, and school and other buildings, both public and private" (lines 9-12).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Vernon, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Concentration (open access)

Process of Concentration

Patent for the invention that relates to a process of separating a conductive substances from a nonconductive substance, and more particularly to the seperation by means of electrifying conducting particles and repelling said particles, while the non-conductive substances are not so repelled (lines 10-16).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Lubricants. (open access)

Process of Making Lubricants.

Patent for "an improved process for making a lubricant especially adapted for parts of moving machinery which will be efficient to keep said parts and their bearings cool and which may also be used to cool heated journals and bearings" (lines 11-16).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Hudnall, Millard Stewart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop. (open access)

Envelop.

Patent for a new envelop that allows for "greater privacy and safety" (line 17) and "to be readily opened by the recipient" (line 19).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Keller, John & Titsworth, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener. (open access)

Fastener.

Patent for improvement in fasteners that "can be attached to a collar-button for the purpose of holding any articles such as bow-ties, scarfs and neckties of wearing-apparel in position to make the articles easily attached or detached from the garment." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Applebom, Ralph & Sidenbitel, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper Ruling Machine (open access)

Paper Ruling Machine

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Ruling-Machine, to provide a simple and efficient machine with a series of pens that draw across sheets of paper carried by a suitable support" (lines 5-11).
Date: February 26, 1901
Creator: Wilmans, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Brake Hanger (open access)

Railway-Brake Hanger

Patent for "improvements to Railway-Break Hanger;...will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same"(lines 6, 9-11).
Date: February 26, 1901
Creator: Saling, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame (open access)

Quilting-Frame

Patent for "a construction which will be cheap and simple in construction and efficient in its operation and which may be adjusted to hold the quilt with the proper degree of tension at all times" (lines 12-16).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Glacken, Hugh
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Plows" (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Sprain, Joseph Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Ore-Concentrator (open access)

Electric Ore-Concentrator

Patent for an electric ore concentrator which offers "an improved method and means for electrically concentrating and separating various metallic substances from their respective ores" (lines 14-17), including explanations and illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tie Buckle. (open access)

Cotton-Tie Buckle.

Patent for a new cotton tie buckle "that will prevent the band engaging the same from slipping, forma a reliable securing means of simple and cheap construction and also economize in the use of the band length, with considerable consequent by saving in expense, the positive retention of the band b the improved device as required rendering the bale of uniform density and the strength of the device resisting breakage and consequent expense of repair frequently necessary in the ordinary uniform of buckle-ties now in use." (Lines 11-22). Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Ragsdale, William C. & Eddleman, Dudley E.
System: The Portal to Texas History