Connector for Lamps (open access)

Connector for Lamps

Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Cleat. (open access)

Car-Door Cleat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car door cleats or guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Miller, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blind-Stop (open access)

Blind-Stop

Patent for a blind stop for windows and doors. Illustrations included.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Labit, Girard E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle-Making Machine (open access)

Buckle-Making Machine

Patent for a buckle making machine for forming wires into tie buckles for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner. (open access)

Burner.

Patent for a new and improved burner for use in fire-boxes of boilers and other apparatus.
Date: September 30, 1902
Creator: Jones, John Lemiel, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Rail-Joint (open access)

Boltless Rail-Joint

Patent for a rail joint designed without bolts. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Crawford, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Device (open access)

Cloth Measuring Device

Patent for a cloth measuring device. Illustration included.
Date: May 30, 1905
Creator: Taylor, Wiliam A. & Churchwell, Theodric R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses (open access)

Apparatus For Making Mattresses

Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Woolery, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit Attachment (open access)

Bit Attachment

Patent for "improved means for stopping runaway horses and to arrange for mounting the same upon a harness-bit so as to be under the control of the driver for convenient and effective operation when required" (lines 8-13).
Date: April 30, 1901
Creator: Riley, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: West, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage (open access)

Automatic Dumping Cage

Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Gordon, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c. (open access)

APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.

Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Butler, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
BRICK-KILN. (open access)

BRICK-KILN.

Patent for brick-kilns to "provide means for burning bricks in a much shorter time and more effectively than is possible with usual constructions, and, further, to protect the kiln-walls against the injurious effects of heat" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Aber, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells. (open access)

Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells.

Patent for "an Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells." "The object in view is the provision of means for facilitating the change of an ordinary door-bell into a continuously-ringing alarm apparatus, while leaving the mechanism free to be changed back into its former operative condition as a door-bell."(Lines 10-15) Including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 30, 1902
Creator: Blakeney, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Mover (open access)

Car-Mover

Patent for a car mover designed to move train cars along the tracks and sidings. Illustrations included.
Date: June 30, 1908
Creator: Peek, Joseph S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Billiard Cue (open access)

Billiard Cue

Patent for an improved billiard cue with a tip that can be quickly and easily removed and replaced by another and that will be adapted to hold a quantity of powdered chalk for use when needed.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Farrand, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses. (open access)

Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for checking runaway horses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Singleton, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chimney. (open access)

Chimney.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chimneys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Glover, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck Bolster (open access)

Car Truck Bolster

Patent for a car-truck bolster. The design improves upon existing versions to bolster a car or truck in order to readily makes repairs in a simple and expeditious manner. The bolster can be taken apart which allows for each part to be replaced separately.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Fowler, T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch (open access)

Automatic Switch

Patent for an automatic switch for street railways.
Date: November 30, 1909
Creator: Godoy, Jose Ma
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese-Cutter (open access)

Cheese-Cutter

Patent for cheese cutter that features improvements which include guides for the knife, the box and cover, and the means for holding the cheese in place on a rotatable platform.
Date: December 30, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus (open access)

Canning Apparatus

Patent for canning apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Brown, William N.; Brown, Clyde V. & Brown, Lester L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Destroying Boll Weevils (open access)

Compound For Destroying Boll Weevils

Patent for a compound that destroys boll weevils.
Date: August 30, 1904
Creator: Kitchen, George C. & Brockman, J. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Spicer, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History