Cistern (open access)

Cistern

Patent for the "class of cisterns used to catch rain-water from the roofs of houses or other places" (lines 9-11); including illustration and instructions
Date: May 15, 1900
Creator: Harry, H. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beverage Cooler And Dispensing Apparatus. (open access)

Beverage Cooler And Dispensing Apparatus.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements i beverage coolers and dispensing apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Sidoti, Antonio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Nailless Horseshoe. (open access)

Adjustable Nailless Horseshoe.

Patent for an adjustable horseshoe with cost efficient, replaceable fittings. Illustrations included.
Date: September 4, 1900
Creator: Fenley, Harriet R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for "a new and use-ful improvement in churns , and its objects among other things , are to provide a simple device more durable in construction than heretofore and one which is cheap of manufacture, may be readily operated and cleaned, and is adapted to keep contents thereof at a desired temperature" (lines 12-19) including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Welke, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Key and Automatic Stop Cock (open access)

Combination Key and Automatic Stop Cock

Patent for "new and improved Combination Key and Automatic Stop-Cock" (lines 6-7) for the purpose of providing "an automatic arrangement for cutting off the water-supply in hydrants and like appliances when the weather becomes so cold as to endanger the freezing of the water" (lines 11-14).
Date: May 7, 1900
Creator: Randall, C. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clevis (open access)

Clevis

Patent for "improvements in clevises or draw-bars for plows and other similar implements" (Lines 8 – 10) including illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Hendon, Walter Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Spreader. (open access)

Knee-Spreader.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in knee spreaders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Trice, Sinnette Y.
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
Key-Bar. (open access)

Key-Bar.

Patent for key-bars for use on type-writers and cash-registers.
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Irish, Gilbert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper Attachment. (open access)

Stalk-Chopper Attachment.

Patent for rotating stalk-chopper attachment, including illustrations.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Nix, Spencer W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Underground Electric Railway. (open access)

Underground Electric Railway.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in underground electric railways, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1900
Creator: Smith, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe. (open access)

Nailless Horseshoe.

Patent for a nailless horseshoe made of adjustable metallic straps, including illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Hughes, John V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism For Cleaning Seed-Cotton (open access)

Mechanism For Cleaning Seed-Cotton

Patent for mechanism for cleaning seed cotton before cotton is distributed into gins, including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Lock. (open access)

Trace-Lock.

Patent for a trace lock that is mechanized to work vertically or horizontally. Illustration included.
Date: October 2, 1900
Creator: Halstead, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole. (open access)

Trolley-Pole.

Patent for trolley-poles for electric cars which provides "a simple, inexpensive, and highly efficient trolley-wire finder, and one which is readily applicable to trolley-poles such as at present in use and is adapted to be quickly and easily raised to an operative position and when released is adapted to gravitate to a position below and out of the way of the trolley-wire" (lines 15-22).
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Schroeter, William & Kautzmann, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System. (open access)

Telephone System.

Patent for, "telephone system; and it has for one object to provide such an arrangement of the instrument and wiring as will permit a subscriber to converse with a second subscriber" (lines 8-12).
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Bennett, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle. (open access)

Riding-Saddle.

Patent for an improved riding saddle that eliminates curling of saddle jockeys and chafing of rider's legs.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Hicks, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for improvement to headlights for cars.
Date: April 17, 1900
Creator: Wakefield, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in "combined cotton - seed and corn planters". (line 11 - 12).
Date: January 16, 1900
Creator: Schofield, James Drummond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frame-Lifting Device for Disk Plows or Similar Implements. (open access)

Frame-Lifting Device for Disk Plows or Similar Implements.

Patent for "improvements in disk plows and similar implements, and especially to means employed for raising and lowering the frames of said plows in order to regulate the depth of the furrow" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Hendon, Walter Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator And Gin-Feeder. (open access)

Cotton-Elevator And Gin-Feeder.

Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton elevators and gin feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for baling-press to press bales of cotton into rectangular bales including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1900
Creator: Taylor, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder (open access)

Cotton-Gin Feeder

Patent for a new "Cotton-Gin Feeder, Drier, and Cleaner" (line 6.) for the purpose of disintegrating "dry, and clean damp and dirty seed-cotton" (lines 10-11).
Date: May 12, 1900
Creator: Brown, Charles William
System: The Portal to Texas History