Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Payne, Lewis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil

Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changeable Exhibitor. (open access)

Changeable Exhibitor.

Patent for a changeable exhibitor, which has horizontally and vertically moving rollers for displaying items.
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Williams, Winfield B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a chopping device that can be attached to an existing cultivator, allowing for the use of the cultivator to become a more versatile farm vehicle.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Vickers, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Neck Yoke and Swingletree (open access)

Convertible Neck Yoke and Swingletree

Patent for a convertible neck yoke and swingletree. Illustration included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Hall, Thomas I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Feeder (open access)

Boiler Feeder

Patent for a boiler feeder. This invention is intended to be placed above the boiler and via a regulator supplies water to the boiler.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Herrington, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester Attachment. (open access)

Harvester Attachment.

Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Marshall, John Henry.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome which is a heavier than air flying machine powered by motorized propellers
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pedaling Brake. (open access)

Back-Pedaling Brake.

Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen (open access)

Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen

Patent for an antifriction device used to "prevent dust and grit from accumulating in the anti-friction bearings" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Neighbour, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Stacker. (open access)

Combined Rake and Stacker.

Patent for an improved combined rake and stacker. The improvement includes an added horse-rake for hay, which can be used to load hay into a wagon or place in a stack.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Jahns, R. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Keith, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c. (open access)

Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.

Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Thompson, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "features . . . first, reciprocating forked seed pushers or plungers attached to a sliding frame and operating alternately to deliver the seed through a covered opening in the bottom of the hopper, whence it passes into the furrow; second, an intermittently-rotating shaft arranged in the seed-hopper and provided with spiral or oblique arms for agitating the seed and feeding it toward the discharge opening" (lines 15-24).
Date: January 24, 1882
Creator: Turley, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Switching System. (open access)

Automatic Car-Switching System.

Patent for "a system of switching where the cars of a train are pushed up an incline and placed successively on an elevated annular revolving platform, by which they are automatically distributed to their respective receiving-tracks" (lines 9-14).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Lelardoux, Pierre
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brush. (open access)

Brush.

Patent for a brush used with pressurized water to clean floors, walls, ceilings, horses, buggies, animal carcasses, etc. The brush can have a hose hooked up to it and has a valve. The water goes into the top of the brush and is distributed evenly throughout with holes in the top of the brush, and the water is sprayed through the bristles.
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Zandt, Luther H. van
System: The Portal to Texas History
Broom Rack. (open access)

Broom Rack.

Patent for a new and improved broom rack. This design "compris[es] the lower ring provided in its outer edge with a series of notches adapted to receive the head of the brooms, the upper ring arranged to fit within the opening of the lower ring when not in use and provided with a series of perforations to receive the handles of the brooms, the chains or other suitable means for connecting the rings, and the chains . . . secured to the upper rings" (lines 79-88).
Date: June 24, 1890
Creator: Neely, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "of the base-plate, the casing made in two trough-shaped sections . . . one of which is hinged to the base-plate the bifurcated uprights, the operating-levers on each side hinged to the uprights, the compressing-beam extending across the baling-chamber and through the uprights, and connections between the compressing-beam and the levers" (lines 92-100).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Hillman, William & Ripple, Joseph F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes (open access)

Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes

Patent for "a means whereby with one motion a stamp will be supplied from the'apparatus, moistened, and placed in position upon a letter, wrapper, or parcel adapted to receive it, and wherein a number of stamps may be consecutively placed when and as desired" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead. (open access)

Bedstead.

Patent for a new and improved bedstead. This design consists of a frame with tension wires "extending diagonally across the bed-frame to the side pieces thereof at points intermediate between the corner posts, and independent tension devices to which the ends of the wire are connected, whereby a longitudinal and lateral strain is exerted upon the bed-frame when the wires are adjusted" (lines 1-7).
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Clowers, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bailing-Press. (open access)

Bailing-Press.

Patent for Bailing Press including illustrations. The purpose of the bailing press was to improve "the bailing-press especially adapted for bailing cotton, which press is simple in construction, strong and durable, and operates rapidly" ( lines 9-12).
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Clark, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n an ant-trap, the combination, with a trough formed with a top [that is] flanged . . . of a box connected thereto by a tube terminating in a disk . . . [and] of the connecting-tubes, box, and fence" (lines 62-68).
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Thompson, William Henderson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beam or Girder. (open access)

Beam or Girder.

Patent for a new and improved girder. This design is "composed of a vertical web and a flange or flanges, a mass of the metal in a flange or flanges projecting from the web at and near one-half the distance between the axis and the neutral line" (lines 48-53).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Cousins, Robert Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Distilling Wood. (open access)

Apparatus for Distilling Wood.

Patent for improvements in wood distillers "wherein the liquids of the woods are extracted by subjection in a closed heated chamber or retort and carried by vaporization through the process of distillation to condensation" (lines 18-22).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Spangler, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History