Bicycle-Gear. (open access)

Bicycle-Gear.

Patent for a Bicycle-Gear meant to rotate the sprocket or other gear wheel on a bicycle, Including Illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Brady, Alford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Switch. (open access)

Electric Time-Switch.

Patent for an electric, switch-operated construction functioning for timer-controlled circuit completions and breaks, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Chappel, James. M.
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
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for new usability improvements for hose coupling, designed for novice users, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Stephens, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn - Husking Machine (open access)

Corn - Husking Machine

Patent for improvements to the corn-husking machine with a butt-end cutter for the ears of corn. (lines 9-10)
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Werner, Anton, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top. (open access)

Carriage Top.

Patent for a new and improved carriage top. This design consists in "the combination, with a vehicle-seat, a series of top-supporting bows pivoted thereto, and a jointed brace having its lower end pivoted to the seat and its upper end to one of the bows, of a rigid operating-lever having its upper end pivoted to said jointed brace and its lower end adjustably connected with the seat, whereby the position of the lower end of said lever may be varied and the brace and top secured in any desired position" (lines 51-60).
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Goelet, Edward Buncombe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shearing and Punching Machine. (open access)

Shearing and Punching Machine.

Patent for punches and shears combined to cut metal longitudinally.
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Echols, Christaphor Columbus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Projectile. (open access)

Automobile Projectile.

Patent for self-propelled vehicle with means for reducing a barrier such as a wire entanglement.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Elrod, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for Improvements in Animal Traps. This trap is a "self and everset trap" (lines 11-12) with the primary purpose of creating a trap that is "efficient of operation, economical of construction, and sanitary" (lines 14-15).
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Burgett, William Matthews
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Weevils. (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Weevils.

Patent for an apparatus for destroying weevils and moths, infesting corn, peas, hay, sweet potatoes, beans, and the like, when stored. The apparatus consists of a container with an improved means of distributing heat to the contents in which the weevils and moths are found.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Kasmeier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door (open access)

Car-Door

Patent for car-door. An attempt to have a door mounted such that when it is moved, it elevates in such a way as to prevent a binding of it.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Smith, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells. (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells.

Patent for a device that assists in cleaning deep wells that have caked material in the pumping apparatus by using hot steam.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Deats, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1874
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Lubricator (open access)

Journal-Lubricator

Patent for journal-lubricator. To provide continuous lubrication for a railway car axle.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Urbieta, Jose Maria
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Clamp for Well Casings (open access)

Lifting Clamp for Well Casings

Patent for a lifting clamp for well casings. It is designed to make the lifting of well casings easier and safer for those attaching the clamp to the lifting mechanism.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Kibele, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Jack. (open access)

Lifting Jack.

Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap. (open access)

Trap.

Patent for impalement mouse trap that is intended to be manufactured and sold at a low cost.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Speed, Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Treasure Vault for Railway Cars. (open access)

Treasure Vault for Railway Cars.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design consists in "a safety treasure-vault for express cars, &c., with the combination of the walls, floor, and roof of the vault constructed of bullet-proof steel plate riveted together at their corners, and the angle-irons to which the walls, floor, and roof are riveted, the bullet-proof steel-plate door, the parcel-delivery window, the combined desk-shelf and bullet-proof shutter, the said vault provided with a port-hole and the bullet-proof plug that stops the port-hole" (lines 21-31).
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Olsson, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Patent for an improvement of gang-plows by arranging the plows in rows on to a fame which can be fastened to a wagon, when the wagon is in motion, it causes the plows to work in vertical motion. The height of the plow-frame can be adjusted. Illustration is included.
Date: July 3, 1860
Creator: Wilson, J. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable frame, which is drawn along by two horses, so as to straddle a row of plants, a diagonal guide for guiding the plants, a guiding finger or piece for guiding the plants toward the knife, and a rake for raking the plants in piles or heaps as fast as they are cut" (lines 13-19).
Date: July 3, 1883
Creator: Early, Louis Simeon & Early, Matthias John Bourland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine. (open access)

Steam Engine.

Patent for a new and improved steam engine. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement, in connection with a cylinder having bearings for the piston-shaft at each end and steam and exhaust ports at opposite ends, of an axially-elongated piston having opposite spiral threads or ribs of gradually-decreasing pitch from the end at which the steam enters to the end at which it escapes" (lines 19-26).
Date: July 3, 1883
Creator: Wilson, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for improvements in milk coolers. The invention "has for one of its objects the provision of a simple and inexpensive knockdown construction which will permit packing into compact form when desirable. Another object is to provide a milk-cooler having adjustable shelves of improved construction, whereby milk pans or pails of different sizes can be easily accommodated. A further object .... is to provide a milk-cooler of the water-evaporation capillary-feed type which will be strong, compact, and of large capacity and provided with improved means for draining, catching, and retaining the water, holding the fabric, and adjusting and securing the shelves" (lines 9-23). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Dean, William Volney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Splint (open access)

Splint

Patent for an improved splint.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Hughes, James Gilbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Operated Circuit-Closer. (open access)

Speed-Operated Circuit-Closer.

Patent for an alarm trigger or stopping device on belt driven grain elevators.
Date: July 3, 1919
Creator: Touchy, Frank Earl
System: The Portal to Texas History