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Sash Lock (open access)

Sash Lock

Patent for an invention which improves "the construction of sash locks" for "great strength and durability" (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Baker, Howard Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke. (open access)

Animal-Poke.

Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Barnes, John I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Securing Buckles, &c., to Straps. (open access)

Improvement in Devices for Securing Buckles, &c., to Straps.

Patent relating to "an improved device for securing buckles, rings, and similar articles to straps" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Barrow, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for "wrenches; and it consists in the improved means for operating the movable jaw thereof." (lines 12-13) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Boozer, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for improvement in attachments for windmills to “convert rotary motion of the wheel shaft into reciprocating motion for actuating the pitman of the sucker rod.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Burleson, Lemual R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design "consists of a volute spring-washer which is formed of a stiff or steel strong plate that is coiled or set up in . . . an edgewise manner, and is provided with one or more projections or spurs on its top and bottom surfaces, adapted to engage with the under side of the nut and the fish-plate or other object, said spurs or projections being formed on the top and the bottom edges of the inner and outer coils of the spring-washer" (lines 20-29).
Date: July 1, 1884
Creator: Campbell, Eli F.; Noble, Laroy C. & Howe, Milton G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Buckles.

Patent relating to "improvements in harness-buckles" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Carnes, William J., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wick Material (Illinois Patent). (open access)

Wick Material (Illinois Patent).

Patent for wick material, "composed of raw fibrous matter in layers or slivers in adhesive substance" (lines 16-17).
Date: July 1, 1890
Creator: Chapin, Myron H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tractor (open access)

Tractor

Patent for improvements to tractors which are designed with the driver's seat positioned on the trailing unit. The improvements allow for tools to be attached in such a way cultivating may be done near fences and other common obstructions.
Date: July 1, 1918
Creator: Chenoweth, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Motor. (open access)

Wind-Motor.

Patent for a "new and improved wind-motor" (line 10) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Advertising Sign (open access)

Automatic Electric Advertising Sign

Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engraving-machine. (open access)

Engraving-machine.

Patent for improvements to an engraving machine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Crane, Walter E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Crank (open access)

Safety-Crank

Patent for a new Safety-Crank for starting auto vehicle engines, which is capable of effectively imparting the necessary forward movement to an engine for starting, but having means conjoined with it, whereby it will be automatically released from positive engagement with the starting shaft on any retrograde movement of the engine.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Farley, Bert T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sealing Device. (open access)

Sealing Device.

Patent for improvements in the design of devices used for sealing car doors, including illustrations and a description. The device is designed in such a way that the seal may not be removed in the locked position without breaking the door, thus preventing theft.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Fox, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm (open access)

Automatic Fire-Alarm

Patent for an electronic automatic fire alarm.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Fred, Mason Kennedy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps. (open access)

Improvement in Pumps.

Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Steam-Engines.

Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Gun (open access)

Machine-Gun

Patent for an improvement in a "battery of guns, and has for its object the operating of any one of the guns by the recoil of another and in succession as long as may be deemed necessary" (lines 7-11).
Date: July 1, 1890
Creator: Greer, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination Locks. (open access)

Improvement in Combination Locks.

Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1873
Creator: Hall, Phidello W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trousers-Guard (open access)

Trousers-Guard

Patent for a metal guard worn around the ankle. The guard maintains the shape of the trousers when worn and keeps the material from coming in contact with the wearer's legs.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Hardy, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness (open access)

Harness

Patent for "a new and Improved Harness" (line 6) with illustrations and description.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Hawkins, Augustus Longstreet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eyeglass Mounting (open access)

Eyeglass Mounting

Patent for the creation of new and useful improvements in eyeglass mounting.
Date: July 1, 1921
Creator: Henderson, W. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine (open access)

Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine

Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: House, Samuel N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wood Pavement. (open access)

Wood Pavement.

Patent for a new and improved wood pavement. This design "consists in a pavement consisting of wooden blocks stripped of bark, cylindrical in shape, and sawed at right angles to the axis of the blocks. Said blocks of live bois d'arc or other hard timber, about six inches long, and placed on ends on a road-bed of bank sand and gravel after the same has been well and compactly rolled, and the spaces between the blocks filled with screened gravel and rammed until solid, and then coated with tar and pitch" (lines 12-22).
Date: July 1, 1884
Creator: Johnson, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History