Clock Attachment. (open access)

Clock Attachment.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate. (open access)

Collapsible Crate.

Patent for a collapsible crate for shipping berries.
Date: October 8, 1907
Creator: Lewis, Bennett Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm (open access)

Burglar-Alarm

Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Halstead, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changeable Gearing. (open access)

Changeable Gearing.

Patent for changeable gearing by using an axle, bevel-gears, stub-shafts and a crank-axle to construct the changeable gear, so that the “sprocket is locked to rotate with the crank-axle in one direction, while it may rotate freely of the axle in opposite direction, and, furthermore, that the sprocket may be locked to rotate with the axle or may be caused to rotate at a higher-speed than the axle.” (Lines 8-14.) Illustration is included.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Brady, Alford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles. (open access)

Arm for Telegraph - Poles.

Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Anderson, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Pooling (open access)

Car Pooling

Patent for rail-car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: December 8, 1903
Creator: Carter, L. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling (open access)

Car - Coupling

Patent for a new and useful improvements in car-couplings. This design "relates to car-couplers of the pivoted-hook type" (line 11 -12).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Chance, Ransom M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Case. (open access)

Convertible Case.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in convertible cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that plants seeds in hills of equal distance from one another.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Roy, Henry F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Kitts, William Caluway
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter (open access)

Carbureter

Patent for a carburetor to be used on internal combustion engines. Illustrations included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Kingsbury, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Oil Mill Seed Huller (open access)

Cotton Oil Mill Seed Huller

Patent for a cotton oil mill seed huller. This invention is designed to prevent the breaking or drilling of knives by foreign matter. Illustrations included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Kappler, John G. & Gaines, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling. (open access)

Car - Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful car coupler.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Parks, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device. (open access)

Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boiler flue cleaning devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Kitchen, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Langford, Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide. (open access)

Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.

Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Hoxworth, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for improvements in bale-ties is to produce a “buckle-plate having a middle portion with an opening therein, arms at each end separated from the middle portion by spaces open at one side, a longitudinal entering-passage connecting the opening with one of said spaces, and a hoop the free ends of which are looped down through said opening and up through the spaces, resting upon the arms under the standing part of the hoop.” (Lines 74-83) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Johnson, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Artificial Fuel. (open access)

Composition of Matter for Artificial Fuel.

Patent for artificial fuel by using coals called “lignite”, grinded it and add other ingredients to it. Formula, measurements and method of mixing is included. No illustration.
Date: December 8, 1903
Creator: Lohmann, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baling and Compress Machine. (open access)

Combined Baling and Compress Machine.

Patent for a combined baling and compress machine for cotton gins, which makes bales that fulfill the rules of transportation companies on cotton bale density and is cost efficient enough for small gins to purchase.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Crow, Robert D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator (open access)

Axle Lubricator

Patent for an axle lubricator, designed to allow lubricating axles without removal of wheels.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Gowan, Richard H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Planter. (open access)

Combined Plow and Planter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Franklin, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate (open access)

Collapsible Crate

Patent for a collapsible crate. Illustration included.
Date: November 8, 1904
Creator: Keck, Edgar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a car coupling. Illustrations included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Simecek, Vaclav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy (open access)

Canopy

Patent for a portable canopy to be used over beds, cribs, or chairs. Illustrations included.
Date: August 8, 1905
Creator: Eichenberg, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History