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Closet-Flushing Mechanism. (open access)

Closet-Flushing Mechanism.

Patent for a water closet flushing mechanism, which prevents the water from standing in the toilet bowl where it is liable to freeze in cold weather.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Parker, Thomas H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Tooth. (open access)

Saw-Tooth.

Patent for a new design for saw-teeth, with illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Fleming, Christopher C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins (open access)

Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins

Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date: December 20, 1892
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annunciator. (open access)

Annunciator.

Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Fouts, Lambert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
COTTON AND CORN PLANTER. (open access)

COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.

Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
Date: April 20, 1880
Creator: Faucher, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop. (open access)

Automatic Train-Stop.

Patent for a more efficient automatic train stop with a mechanism that uses a connection with the block system used on railways to stop a train when it runs into "the tracks of the danger zone or upon the tracks of the block where the train should be stopped." (lines 16-18)
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Gramm, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Table and Chair (open access)

Combined Table and Chair

Patent for combined table and chair that is very durable and simple in construction. This will allow organization and support for either a chair use or table use.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Macon, Alexander W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop (open access)

Folding Coop

Patent for folding coops for the shipment of meat products, such as poultry. This invention will ensure greater efficiency in shipment of products.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Randall, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet (open access)

Kitchen Cabinet

Patent for a kitchen cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Rosser, Virgil O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer (open access)

Vaporizer

Patent for a vaporizer. This invention is for use in the medical field.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Beaumont, Godfrey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Classifying Comminuted Material. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Classifying Comminuted Material.

Patent for improving the process of classifying materials in order to reduce rehandling and improve efficiency in sizing materials through the use of screens.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for an adjustable hydrocarbon burner for use in cement kilns.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Dietz, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Miter and Framing Square. (open access)

Miter and Framing Square.

Patent for a new and improved miter and framing square. This design "consists in the improved arrangement and construction of graduated scales, whereby I attain superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, inexpensiveness, and general efficiency" (lines 11-15).
Date: November 20, 1883
Creator: Bolles, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Microtome Attachment for Microscopes (open access)

Microtome Attachment for Microscopes

Patent for a microtome attachment for microscopes which aids in cutting thin plates. Illustrations included.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Poe, James G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Concentrating Comminuted Material. (open access)

Process of Concentrating Comminuted Material.

Patent for a process of concentrating comminuted material.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Edwin G. Steele
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process Of Separating Substances Of Different Dielectric Capacities (open access)

Process Of Separating Substances Of Different Dielectric Capacities

Patent for a process of separating substances of different substances of different dielectric capacities. Illustration included.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. Illustration included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Penn, George Rollins
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrostatic Separator. (open access)

Electrostatic Separator.

Patent for an electrostatic separator for various particles.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer (open access)

Ice-Cream Freezer

Patent for "an improvement in that class of ice-cream freezers in which the cream is taken up and frozen by contact with a revolving cylinder containing some refrigerant, and is removed therefrom by means of a suitable scraper" (lines 7-12).
Date: January 20, 1891
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw Propeller. (open access)

Screw Propeller.

Patent for a new and improved screw propeller. This design "connect[s] propellers on the opposite sides of a vessel with one another and with a stern propeller, so that they will act at the same time upon different parts of the vessel in urging her forward," which leads to increased speed (lines 7-11).
Date: March 20, 1883
Creator: Gartner, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder (open access)

Rein Holder

Patent for a rein holder. Illustration included.
Date: December 20, 1904
Creator: Bond, Thomas, Sr. & Pagel, Frederick J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Puzzle. (open access)

Puzzle.

Patent for a more complex wire puzzle that can be manufactured more cheaply and efficiently than others.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Blalock, Justice Earl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner. This invention is for use with crude or refined oils in fire boxes of stoves.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Raymond, Emmet B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for an oil burner for stoves, which has parts which do not carbonize and block the burner, lights quickly, and wastes less fuel in smoke or soot.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Wright, Charles D.
System: The Portal to Texas History