Vehicle Top Support (open access)

Vehicle Top Support

Patent for a vehicle top support. Illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Allen, Luther L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Retainer (open access)

Buggy-Top Retainer

Patent for a buggy top retainer designed to keep the top of a buggy stable as it is driving over rough terrain. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Allison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Air-Brake Appliance. (open access)

Safety Air-Brake Appliance.

Patent for a safety air brake appliance, which automatically applies the brakes on each car if a car derails.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Ash, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions (open access)

Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions

Patent for "new and useful Imporivements in Processes of Recovering Precious Metals from Their Solutions, and which I designate as the 'Sulfuric-Acid Process;' [...] to separate the precious metals from their cyanid solutions in a rapid and thorough matter and to recover the precious metals from solutions thereof." (lines 5-8 & 22-26)
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bahn, Gustavus A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows.

Patent for a weed turning attachment for plows, which is adjustable to different size weeds.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Baxter, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Felt Picker (open access)

Felt Picker

Patent for a felt picker. This invention is for use of piano-workmen in making flexible the felts in piano-actions.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bell, William Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Clamp. (open access)

Pipe-Clamp.

Patent for a pipe clamp for drawing well casings out of wells that can be used on different size pipes and grips harder as resistance increases.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Benedict, George Spencer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press (open access)

Cotton-Press

Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Plugger. (open access)

Dental Plugger.

Patent for a dental plugger which has a movable cylinder on the interior with a "piston-like mallet working in the cylinder and adapted to strike the same, to impart movement to the dental tool" (lines 93-95).
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Blum, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer (open access)

Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer

Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer (open access)

Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer

Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for improvements in rail-joint by providing “a fastening means for rail-joints adapted to embrace the bottom and top sides of the foot and the sides of the web of the rail and to extend along the underside of the head, so as to brace the joint vertically.” (Lines 16-31) Illustration is included.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Boyd, Henry M. & Redmon, Hope
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind Wheel (open access)

Wind Wheel

Patent for wind wheel. Illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bradford, McDuffee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Covering (open access)

Fireproof Covering

Patent for a fireproof covering. Illustration included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Brigance, Alice Osborne
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Level. (open access)

Level.

Patent for a spirit level, which measures more accurately than other models and allows quicker calculation of where the wood needs to be moved to be level.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Brittain, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Connecting Plows Tandem. (open access)

Coupling for Connecting Plows Tandem.

Patent for a coupling for holdings plows together that allows for the plows to be close together, easily turned, and lets each plow perform its full function uninhibited by the other plows.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Brooks, John L. M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headwear (open access)

Headwear

Patent for headwear. Illustrations included.
Date: August 23, 1904
Creator: Brown, Bettie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sweep. (open access)

Cotton-Sweep.

Patent for cotton sweep. This invention helps in easy spreading and setting of sweeping blades, "since it provides a novel form of brace to be interposed between the blades of the sweep and the stock" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Brown, Burel J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tying Machine. (open access)

Bale-Tying Machine.

Patent for a bale tying machine that wraps and ties cylindrical bales, "especially for placing wrappers of jute or other bagging material around cylindrical cotton - bales" (lines 11-14) while holding the bale compressed.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Cagle, Carter M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bow Facing Oar (open access)

Bow Facing Oar

Patent for an oar facing the bow side of the craft. The invention allows for the rower to sit facing the direction of movement of the boat and be able to apply greater amounts of exertion. Illustration included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Case, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester. (open access)

Spark-Arrester.

Patent for a steam train locomotive spark arrester consisting of curved pipe smoke stack that holds solid particles of exhaust on the edges of the pipe, which are expelled by the force of exhaust gases coming through, into the fire box thereby preventing their escape outside the engine reducing danger from stray sparks. This system also uses less fuel than previous systems.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Chalfant, Cotter Strawn
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mud-Guard. (open access)

Mud-Guard.

Patent for a mud guard for bicycles, which can be folded out of the way when not in use.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Chisholm, Walter J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment. This design has improvements for the foot portion of plows and cultivators. The attachment is easy to apply, and can be adjusted accordingly.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Clark, Samuel Houston
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Kitchen Cabinet (open access)

Revolving Kitchen Cabinet

Patent for a revolving kitchen cabinet. This invention is an adapted improvement to create economize space and save time in food preparation of food. Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Clements, Rollings Alsobrook
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History