Auxiliary Water-Heater and Smoke-Consumer (open access)

Auxiliary Water-Heater and Smoke-Consumer

Patent for a water heater which connects to the furnace and uses the smoke and gases passing through it to heat the water in the water heater.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Miles,Joseph Furnas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Apparatus (open access)

Bale-Forming Apparatus

Patent for an automatic bale forming apparatus that can be set to make a certain size cotton bale and will stop when it reaches that size and send the finished bale out on a conveyer belt and begin the next one.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "...a Bailing-Press for Making Cylindrical Bales of Cotton..." (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Brace. (open access)

Bedstead Brace.

Patent for a new and useful bedstead-brace. "This invention is an improved construction of bedstead-brace, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device which can be applied to any and all beds" (line 7-11).
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Campbell, Ike W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comb Cleaner. (open access)

Comb Cleaner.

Patent for a new and useful comb-cleaner. "This invention is an improved construction of comb-cleaner, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device by means of which a comb can be quickly and effectively cleaned" (line 10).
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Hess, Hugo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Implement. (open access)

Compound Implement.

Patent for a compound tool for building and repairing fences, which combines a post hole digger and a wire stretcher.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Haynes, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper or Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper or Cultivator.

Patent for a cotton chopper whose shovels are adjustable and that leaves the cotton in small piles behind it.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
End-Gate Fastener (open access)

End-Gate Fastener

Patent for a fastener to hold end gate and sideboards of wagon in place and attached to body of wagon. Allows for adjustment.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Nichols, Walter B.; Nichols, Edward A. & Schad, Frank X.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Follower for Packing Sauer-kraut, &c. (open access)

Follower for Packing Sauer-kraut, &c.

Patent for new improvements for devices for producing pressure for sauer-kraut or other food products needing pressure.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Ira I. Newfield
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fusible Plug. (open access)

Fusible Plug.

Patent for a fusible plug for steam boilers in trains that can be easily replaced without the boiler stopping its production.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Hacker, Louis Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Groove-Rail Cleaner. (open access)

Groove-Rail Cleaner.

Patent for a grooved rail cleaner, which can get the dirt out of small grooves.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Frick, Claus Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heater. (open access)

Heater.

Patent for a heater powered by oil, which provides uniform heating of rooms, uses as little oil as possible to maintain heat, and does not get soot on objects in the room it is in.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Callihan, Willie H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music-Indicator. (open access)

Music-Indicator.

Patent for a device that is set upon a piano or other keyed instrument to indicate keys and chords, with illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Hobart, Frederick Earl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music-Indicator. (open access)

Music-Indicator.

Patent for a music indicator, which shows sheet music notations and the name of the note and major and minor chords on a device, which is placed over the keyboard of a piano to show where the different notes are for use in teaching music.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Thrash, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle

Patent for a new and improved non-refillable bottle "in which the liquid is prevented from being poured back into the bottle by a check" (lines 10-11) a physical piece located in the neck of the bottle with illustration.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Leak, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Compound for Eggs, &c. (open access)

Packing Compound for Eggs, &c.

Patent for a food packing compound made out of clay, chalk, and lime.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Clevis. (open access)

Plow-Clevis.

Patent for a plow clevis that moves horizontally and vertically.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Digby, Martin L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for improvements to the joints for railway rails to prevent "bumping of the wheels against the ends of rails and the cross ties adjacent to the joints" (lines 16-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Adams, Powell O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing. (open access)

Railway-Crossing.

Patent for a railway crossing, which is simpler to build and maintain and more durable than previous railway crossing connections.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Hosmer, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Snap (open access)

Snap

Patent for improvements in snaps including an eye for a strap to pass through for gripping.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Wroe, Hiram A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Specific-Gravity Scale (open access)

Specific-Gravity Scale

Patent for a type of weighing-scale, "designed for determining the specific gravity of any body, be it solid, liquid, or a gas" (lines 14-15) including illustration.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Hinge (open access)

Spring Hinge

Patent for providing a "door-hinge of simple and durable construction swinging freely either way from a spring which is fast at one end, but adapted at the other to ride freely up and down the doorjamb" (lines 9-12) including an illustration.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Kincaid, Michael A. D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tourist's Glass. (open access)

Tourist's Glass.

Patent for "improvements in tourist's glasses" ... "intended for the use of tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, mineralogists, and analogous purposes, the object of which is to combine with a compass a plurality of instruments particularly adapted for the aforesaid persons and purposes" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Brake Ratchet (open access)

Wagon-Brake Ratchet

Patent for new mode of applying brake-shoes to a wagon and improvement with the position of the brake level on a wagon.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Shipley, Jack J.
System: The Portal to Texas History