Combined Indian Club and Dumb-Bell. (open access)

Combined Indian Club and Dumb-Bell.

Patent for a combined Indian club and dumbbell, which are easily interchanged and having varying weights.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Burr, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Appliance (open access)

Draft Appliance

Patent for a draft attachment to be used with a animal-drawn vehicle to hitch a third horse to the vehicle if need be. Illustrations included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Gaines, Wister F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Head-Rest For Barbers' Chairs (open access)

Head-Rest For Barbers' Chairs

Patent for a headrest to be used for chairs used by barbers and doctors. Illustrations included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Wallace, Robert S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor (open access)

Hydraulic Motor

Patent for a hydraulic motor. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Schaefer, Herbert Clyde
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion and Air Compressing Engine (open access)

Internal Combustion and Air Compressing Engine

Patent for internal combustion and air compressing engine. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Risley, Ward & Risley, Zeph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for an oil burner, which atomizes oil through the injection of steam that helps the oil to burn more easily.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Milton, John Foy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potato-Digger. (open access)

Potato-Digger.

Patent for a potato digger, which leaves the potatoes on top of the soil and can be used in a variety of different soil types.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Herring, Jesie M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pneumatic pump that attaches to automobiles and fills up pneumatic tires and self-lubricates.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Kreiter, Richard F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie. (open access)

Railway-Tie.

Patent for a compact railway tie with the least possible parts.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Roberts, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Display-Cabinet. (open access)

Rotary Display-Cabinet.

Patent for a rotary display cabinet for lace and ribbons, which has a dust free delivery system, rotates to allow the spools to be wound back up easily, and has a glass window for easy viewing.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Duncan, Delorus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Reversible Engine (open access)

Rotary Reversible Engine

Patent for rotary reversible engine. Illustrations included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Risley, Ward & Risley, Zeph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Dog Trip for Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Safety-Dog Trip for Cotton-Presses.

Patent for a safety dog trip for cotton presses, which automatically removes the dog rods holding the cotton out of the press when it is sent up for pressing.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Wright, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signaling Device (open access)

Signaling Device

Patent for a signaling device to be used on railroads, trolley cars, or engines. Illustrations included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Smith, William Philip
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swivel Connection (open access)

Swivel Connection

Patent for a swivel connection for pipe joints which does not require packing and allows each pipe to turn independently of the other.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Guild, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a washing machine, which has rubbing devices that will not injure the clothes and attaches to any tub and braces it.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Zachary, Archie A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revision of the Wood Rats of the Genus Neotoma (open access)

Revision of the Wood Rats of the Genus Neotoma

From introduction: "Result of a study of the wood rats in the collection of the Biological Survey, numbering over 3,000 specimens, including topotypes of most of the species."
Date: October 19, 1910
Creator: Goldman, Edward A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Letter of proposal from Warner E. Smith to the United Patent Office to put forth his invention on cultivator to improve the existing one. His invention on cultivator is for cleaning beds where the plants planted down deep in the ground. It is ideal for reeding the surface of the ground from weeds. With his proposal, Smith provided the diagram or drawing to give detail on how it is done.
Date: October 19, 1912
Creator: Smith, Warner E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter. (open access)

Carbureter.

Patent for a carburetor that automatically regulates oil based on how much air enters the carburetor.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Cerny, Alois
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter (open access)

Carbureter

Patent for a "carbureter adapted for use in connection with internal combustion engines, and being of novel construction whereby the air is drawn through the gasolene or liquid fuel to vaporize the fuel and thereby provide a thorough and proper mixture of the air and fuel" (lines 10-16), including illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Nichols, Theodore J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined envelop, shipping-tag, and index-card (open access)

Combined envelop, shipping-tag, and index-card

An identifying tag to be placed on containers meant to be returned to the sender after delivery of goods.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Simpson, Ray R., of Dallas, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing (open access)

Gearing

Patent for improved manual washing machine gearing.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: McNeil, H. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process and Machine for Making Bricks. (open access)

Process and Machine for Making Bricks.

Patent for improvements to brick making machines that will produce bricks with a textile finish.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Rodgers, Edward H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Metal Tank (open access)

Sheet-Metal Tank

Patent for a sheet metal tank supported by outside beams made of metal studs or sheets. The design also provides means by which the tank can be sheathed and secured by concrete.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk and Straw Chopper. (open access)

Stalk and Straw Chopper.

Patent for "improvements to stalk, straw and weed choppers for attachment to plows" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Gray, Wallace W. & Witzsche, Frank P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History