Antifriction Device For Sucker Rods Or The Like (open access)

Antifriction Device For Sucker Rods Or The Like

Patent for an antifriction-roller (part of a pumping mechanism) with a mounting that can be manufactured at a low cost, "quickly and readily applied to a rod at any point....and prevent it from bending...and, furthermore, interpose a minimum obstruction to the flow of the liquid in the casing" (lines 17-25)
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Black, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires. (open access)

Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.

Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Applying and Tightening Device. (open access)

Bale-Band Applying and Tightening Device.

Patent for "...an applying and tightening device for bale-bands..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Vardell, Arthur A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ballot-Box (open access)

Ballot-Box

Patent for a ballot box using black and white balls.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Green, Charles D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle. (open access)

Bicycle.

Patent for "...a bicycle-frame so constructed that it is adapted to yield automatically...thereby doing away with the necessity of using pneumatic and puncturable tires..." (lines 10-11, 15-17) including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Smith, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Holder. (open access)

Bolt-Holder.

Patent for improvements in bolt-holders by “providing a combined bolt-holder and screw-driver…. in which the hook or engaging member is quickly and conveniently adjustable to any angle to allow the tool to be employed in various positions to engage bolts set.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Carter, Hiram C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Box (open access)

Cash-Box

Patent for "a device adapted for persons making a great number of small collections, such as railway conductors" (lines 8-10).
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Peetz, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coach-Equalizing Suspender. (open access)

Coach-Equalizing Suspender.

Patent for a coach-equalizing suspender.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Best, William Newton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder. (open access)

Cotton-Gin Feeder.

Patent for improvements in cotton-gin feeders by employing an adjustable friction-wheel to operate and control the picker-rollers and the feeding-rollers. Illustration is included.
Date: March 18, 1902
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Plow. (open access)

Cultivator-Plow.

Patent for improvements in cultivator-plow through the positioning and connection of parts. Adjustable plow for different cultivating functions and different crops, especially for cotton. Illustration and materials recommendations included.
Date: March 18, 1902
Creator: Sheffield, James A. D. & Sheffield, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Evener (open access)

Draft Evener

Patent for invention that "relates to four-horse draft equalizers, and is well adapted for use on plows-- gang-plows, sulky-plows, and grain-plows-- and may be used also on wagons and other vehicles drawn by horse-power" (lines 8-12). Illustrations are included
Date: March 15, 1902
Creator: Sleight, Milton W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Easel (open access)

Easel

Patent for an adjustable easel.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Mueller, Carl P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound. (open access)

Egg-Preserving Compound.

Patent for a compound of cotton-seed oil, beeswax, paraffin, and salicylic acid that was meant to preserve eggs by sealing their pores.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Gas-Lighter (open access)

Electric Gas-Lighter

Patent for a gas lighter that is designed to be durable and reliable, with an improved method of controlling the supply of gas to the burner.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Ruebel, C. A. Ernst
System: The Portal to Texas History
Girth (open access)

Girth

Patent for the improved securing or removal of a horse saddle, with illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1902
Creator: Owens, Robert. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gun-Barrel. (open access)

Gun-Barrel.

Patent for improvement in small firearms. The gun combines a cylindrical breech and with an elliptical bore in order to increase the projectile’s impact and stabilize its trajectory. The invention uses an ordinary ball cartridge, improving upon an earlier patent by the inventor. Detailed explanation and illustrations included.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Cole, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge-Gainer. (open access)

Hinge-Gainer.

Patent for a hinge-gainer related to "certain improvements in devices of that class employed for cutting a gain or mortise in a door-jam or door for the reception of a hinge. The object of the invention is to provide an improved machine or tool in which all the parts may be readily and accurately adjusted to cut recesses of different width, height, and depth" (Lines 8-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Ward, Richard Bryant.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar-Blocking Machine. (open access)

Horse-Collar-Blocking Machine.

Patent to improve machines for manufacture of horse-collars, specifically by addressing the shaping of the horse collar, or “blocking.” The patent specifies a collar holder that “conforms to the finished outline of the collar” (line 20), a binding mechanism “brought firmly about the rim of the collar and there held while pressure is brought upon the body of the collar to properly shape it” (lines 21-25), and independent control over the “degree of strain of the binder about the collar and the degree of pressure upon it” (lines 26-27). Includes illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Dodson, Roy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoeing-Rasp (open access)

Horseshoeing-Rasp

Patent for improved horseshoeing rasp, both portable and mechanical, which removes extra hoof after shoe is applied to foot. Invention also provides smoother and trimmer hoof with shoe.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Daggett, John P. & Hestand, Hardy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knife. (open access)

Knife.

Patent for improvement in pruning-knives by creating a hollow slot in the handle of the knife and a pivoted blade; in which the blade can be pull out of the slot when in use and place it back to the slot when it is not in use. Illustration is included.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Zwicker, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marine Propeller (open access)

Marine Propeller

Patent for a marine propeller which allows for "a reversal of the action of the wheel for propulsion in opposite directions or for turning the boat without changing the direction of rotation of the power-shaft."
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mat for Presses (open access)

Mat for Presses

Patent for a mat for presses which is to be used to express oils from vegetables.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Baumgarten, Carl Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music-Leaf Turner. (open access)

Music-Leaf Turner.

Patent for "...an improvement in music-leaf turners...by which the leaves may be readily turned from side to side as desired..." (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Dascomb, Charles Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Coupling (open access)

Pipe-Coupling

Patent for a device that allows two pipes to be connected without the need of creating threads on the end of pipes.
Date: March 8, 1902
Creator: Willmann, Joesph
System: The Portal to Texas History