Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for an improved lifting jack, which "can be quickly placed beneath the axle of a vehicle and easily removed therefrom" (lines 14-16).
Date: September 1, 1903
Creator: Adair, Benjamin Lockett
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book Adjuster. (open access)

Book Adjuster.

Patent for a new and improved book-adjuster. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the holder having the horizontal longitudinal recess and the vertical screw-threaded aperture, of the base-piece, the adjusting-screw swiveled at its lower end in the said base-piece, and the spring-catch" (lines 3-8).
Date: February 8, 1887
Creator: Adair, Irvine James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder. (open access)

Copy Holder.

Patent for a new and improved copy-holder. This design "is [for] an improved copy-holder intended especially for holding deeds when being transcribed to the records, and seeks to provide a simple, inexpensive construction by which the deed may be held and to and from which the deed or other paper may be adjusted without difficulty, such construction serving also to mark or indicate the particular line of the paper being copied" (lines 7-15).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Adair, Irvine James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing Signal (open access)

Railway-Crossing Signal

Patent for improvements in Railway-Crossing Signals that provide both a visual and audible signal to be given at the crossing when a train is approaching.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Adleta, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cable Reeling and Pulling Truck (open access)

Cable Reeling and Pulling Truck

Patent for the cable reeling and pulling truck. This invention was made to ease the process of cable reeling and pulling by trucks and for improvements to the safety of this process. Illustrations are provided.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Alberts, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in "combined cotton planters, choppers, and cultivators" (line 9-11).
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Albreekt, Niklaus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which cut the cotton into hills of equal distance apart.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Alexander, Winston B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oiler (open access)

Oiler

Patent for an oiler. This invention is designed to be attached to a broom for the distribution.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Allen, George T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for "an improved freight car door so supported that it will not be shaken or jarred off and can be easily opened and closed at all times no matter how heavily loaded the car may be." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1895
Creator: Allen, Thomas C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Compressor. (open access)

Gas-Compressor.

Patent for gas compressors for ice and refrigeration machines, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1891
Creator: Ambrose, Joseph D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate (open access)

Folding Crate

Patent for folding crate. Illustration included.
Date: May 8, 1906
Creator: Anderson, Oliver Lacy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester (open access)

Spark-Arrester

Patent for an improved and simplified spark arrester, which deflects sparks and other products of combustion back into the furnace or into a designated receptacle.
Date: October 10, 1905
Creator: Anderson, Oliver Lacy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuse-Block. (open access)

Fuse-Block.

Patent for the Fuse Block. Patent is an improvement to the existing Fuse Block. It allows safer working conditions for those who have to replace or install new fuse blocks at night and/or the rain.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Anderson, Ulin S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps. (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Patent for improvement in animal-traps, with description and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1876
Creator: Anderson, Zachariah J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane. (open access)

Aeroplane.

Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
Date: September 19, 1911
Creator: Andrae, Ernest H.; Andrae, E. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stabilizer for Flying-Machines. (open access)

Stabilizer for Flying-Machines.

Patent for Stabilizer for Flying Machines. "The object of the invention being to provide simple and effective means upon the lateral margins of a main plane or supporting surface operating automatically upon the lateral oscillation of the machine in either direction to restore it to a horizontal or balanced position" (lines: 9 -16).
Date: January 28, 1911
Creator: Andrae, Ernst H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Spice Mill. (open access)

Coffee and Spice Mill.

Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date: March 28, 1882
Creator: Andrews, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.

Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1875
Creator: Angers, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring (open access)

Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring

Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date: May 12, 1917
Creator: Annan, Alfred H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener. (open access)

Fastener.

Patent for improvement in fasteners that "can be attached to a collar-button for the purpose of holding any articles such as bow-ties, scarfs and neckties of wearing-apparel in position to make the articles easily attached or detached from the garment." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Applebom, Ralph & Sidenbitel, Joe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catamenial Bandage. (open access)

Catamenial Bandage.

Patent for a catamenial bandage, which fits itself to the wearer and does not show underneath clothing.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Argo, Ida M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Flue (open access)

Metallic Flue

Patent for metallic flue. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Armstrong, Layton D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Picker. (open access)

Fruit Picker.

Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design consists in "two bags or receptacles [which] are secured upon an endless chain or cord, which passes over a pulley at the top of the pole of the picker and under a pulley near the lower end of the pole, so that the weight of one fruit picked and received in the bag will draw the other bag upward ready to receive another fruit, while the fruit in the descended bag may be removed from the said bag, which will thus be ready to ascend, when another fruit is picked" (lines 24-34).
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Arnold, Hudson H. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History