Attachment for Cabinets. (open access)

Attachment for Cabinets.

Patent for Attachment for Cabinets. An adjustable bracket that attaches to various pieces of cabinetry or furniture for supporting water basins for easy reach.
Date: October 28, 1913
Creator: Austin, W. E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Advertising-Machine. (open access)

Display Advertising-Machine.

Patent for an advertising display that carries a number of large advertisement sheets that are revolved and held stationary to periodically display each advertisement in repeating succession.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Barnett, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box-Fastener. (open access)

Box-Fastener.

Patent for an improved box-fastener for cases and boxes that hold bottled liquids. The invention allows for the cover to be easily removed, and hangs on the side of the box when not being used. The cover can be used on an ordinary box without altering the box.
Date: October 9, 1894
Creator: Beck, Edwin A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Lighting Attachment. (open access)

Pencil-Lighting Attachment.

Patent for improvement in pencil-lighting attachments. This is meant to combine an electric lamp with a pencil, pen, etc. within a mounted casing so that the surface being written on may be lighted.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Bennett, Jerrell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters. (open access)

Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters.

Patent for a carbureter that improves auxiliary air feed, wherein gradually increased quantities of air are harnessed as the speed of the motor increases.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Bills, Thomas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Tester (open access)

Egg-Tester

Patent for an egg tester. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Bixler, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Oil-Press. (open access)

Continuous Oil-Press.

Patent for a continuous oil press for use in pressing oil from seeds, nuts, and fruits.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Blain, Frank A. & Hill, Clyve D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Machine (open access)

Well Drilling Machine

Patent for well drilling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: October 2, 1906
Creator: Boaz, Ernest O. & Kenehan, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Matrices and Blanks for making Tablets. (open access)

Matrices and Blanks for making Tablets.

Patent for Matrix Blocks.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Bowman, Lloyd.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separable Locking Rack for Driving Mechanism (open access)

Separable Locking Rack for Driving Mechanism

Patent for separable locking rack for driving mechanism. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Brewster, Bertram F. & Wilson, Walker Scott
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue (open access)

Tongue

Patent for a tongue. "This invention has relation to tongues, especially adapted to be applied to agricultural machines, as for instance wheel mounted plow frames, and has for its object the provision of a tongue structure with means for connecting the same to the frame of the machine so that frame may be swung under the tongue laterally while the frame is being over the ground." (line 8-16). illustration included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Brown, Bartley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rocking Chair. (open access)

Rocking Chair.

Patent for a new and improved rocking chair. This design "relates to an improvement in rocking chairs; and it consists in a detachable rocker and a clamp for securing the rocker to the legs of an ordinary chair for the purpose of converting the latter into a rocking chair" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Brown, Frederick H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Binder (open access)

Paper-Binder

Patent for a binder for papers, bills, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Byron, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Making Burial-Vaults. (open access)

Mold for Making Burial-Vaults.

Patent for a mold for making burial vaults, which is easily removed from the finished product and allows for easy transport of the vault.
Date: October 20, 1908
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Catcher. (open access)

Trolley-Catcher.

Patent for a simple and efficient trolley pole that can be "dropped to a position of safety when the trolley wheel leaves the wire, whereby the pole is prevented from coming in contact with the supports of the trolley wire, the feeders, &c." (lines 10-14). The pole is easily re-engaged.
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Cobb, Woodson D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Crisp, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. This invention is an implement lies in supporting the plow feet from the cultivator beams in such a manner in order to adjust the placing of the plow shanks. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Crouch, William V.; Crouch, McElvy S. & Martin, H. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device. (open access)

Hitching Device.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive hitching device that can be easily applied to the driver, can connect a weight to the draft animal's bit, and can be easily adjusted.
Date: October 3, 1893
Creator: Crowley, Joseph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jack for Pumps and Other Purposes (open access)

Jack for Pumps and Other Purposes

Patent for a jack, that can be used for a variety of purposes.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Dayton, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power-Jack. (open access)

Power-Jack.

Patent for improvements on the power-jack, which help bring liquids to the surface. Specifically designed "to provide a power mechanism for balancing the load or work at all points of the stroke." (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Dayton, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Cane Cultivator (open access)

Cotton and Cane Cultivator

Patent for Cotton and Cane Cultivator. Laterally-movable hoe that can be thrown in and out of action.
Date: October 18, 1902
Creator: Dodd, John A. & Dodd, J. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Roaster. (open access)

Coffee-Roaster.

Patent for a coffee roaster, including illustrations. The purpose of the coffee maker "is to provide an improved apparatus by which green coffee may be evenly, quickly, and economically parched or roasted to the desired degree without burning" (lines 8-12).
Date: October 31, 1882
Creator: Dunn, William Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "an automatic car-coupling which may be uncoupled from the sides of the cars, and which will allow of a car on which it is provided being coupled to a car provided with the ordinary link-and-pin coupling" (lines 7-12).
Date: October 30, 1888
Creator: Eddleman, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Oil-Burners (open access)

Improvement in Oil-Burners

Patent for an oil burner to be used with heating ranges, stoves, boilers, and furnaces.
Date: October 17, 1911
Creator: Essex, Winfield S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History