Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles. (open access)

Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.

Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Winfrey, Edgar, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids. (open access)

Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids.

Patent for a pneumatic lift that maintains the air pressure needed to effectively move liquid through a pipe.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bicycles. (open access)

Attachment for Bicycles.

Patent for a package-carrying device that attaches to the frame of a bicycle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Saunders, David Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Scale (open access)

Automatic Weighing Scale

Patent for moving a pole along a beam that efficiently measures weight as a scale.
Date: June 29, 1918
Creator: Foster Jr., Samuel T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt Fastener (open access)

Belt Fastener

Patent for a belt fastener. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Stenzel, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace. (open access)

Bit-Brace.

Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: McClellan, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support (open access)

Buggy-Top Support

Patent for a supporter for the top of a buggy. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Putman, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calipers. (open access)

Calipers.

Patent for calipers that can be adjusted micrometrically to within one five-thousandth of an inch. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has relation to that class of car-couplings in which the open ends of a coupling bar or link are engaged by hooks in the draw-heads; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a coupling, in which the hooks are projecting from the under sides of arms pivoted upon the draw-heads and dropping down by their gravity, and in which the said hooks project into registering recesses in the upper side of the draw-head" (lines 23-33).
Date: June 29, 1886
Creator: Boyers, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for an improved car coupling that is automatic and safer than regular couplings.
Date: June 29, 1884
Creator: Myers, Newton J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Martin, David D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chase for Printers. (open access)

Chase for Printers.

Patent for chase for printing presses, and more particularly to facets of choses or type which are adjustable without knocking down the type and which can be shifted to any desirable position on the bed of the printing press and held rigid.
Date: April 23, 1915
Creator: Bolles, Percy S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bag and Twine Holder (open access)

Combined Bag and Twine Holder

Patent for a device which holds both string and bags, with description of construction, parts, and use, and with illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1886
Creator: Cushing, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Pace, William S. & Pace, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture (open access)

Curtain-Fixture

Patent for a curtain fixture which raises and lowers curtain shades by tightening and loosening. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Johnson, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Case (open access)

Display-Case

Patent for a display case for holding cheese. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Simon, Alex H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Device (open access)

Display Device

Patent for improvements in display devices that displays apparel without taking up a lot of space and will be out of the way when not needed.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Frank, Henry L. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack. (open access)

Display-Rack.

Patent for..." a rack for displaying cakes, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, and like commodities in whole or half boxes, so as to admit of access being readily had to the contents of the boxes or the boxes being quickly removed and replaced for any pur pose, and to devise a rack for the purposes aforesaid which will be compact and occupy a minimum amount of room compared with the display-surface and which provides for the adjustment of the brackets or supports so as to receive boxes of different size and make" (lines 8-20) with descriptions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Jordan, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Stop and Holder. (open access)

Door Stop and Holder.

Patent for an invention that relates to door stops and holders, with the object to limit the swinging of the door when opened and will also hold the door open when it is desired to maintain the same in a open position.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Newsom, John Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer (open access)

Draft Equalizer

Patent for a draft class. This device is for use with wagons to equalize draft animals. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Bouldin, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine. (open access)

Engine.

Patent for new steam engine design with illustrations
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Burrow, Edgar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener. (open access)

Fastener.

Patent for a fastener to be used in the connection of doors to ensure they are locked into place.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Wilson, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float-Controlled Liquid-Gaging and Cut-Off Means. (open access)

Float-Controlled Liquid-Gaging and Cut-Off Means.

Patent for an automatic cut off device for oil tanks that indicates the amount of water in an oil tank and will automatically close the discharge opening when all the water has been discarded from the tank.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Waldrep, Granville J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate and Coop (open access)

Folding Crate and Coop

Patent for a folding crate and coop. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Tomison, Willis Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History