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Gate Latch (open access)

Gate Latch

Patent for a gate latch. Illustration included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Abernathy, James Rubin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Pole Remover (open access)

Curtain-Pole Remover

Patent for a curtain pole remover that allows the user to remove or put in place curtain poles without climbing on anything.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Adair, Lulu N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Rod Clamps. (open access)

Improvement in Pipe and Rod Clamps.

Patent for "improvements in devices for supporting pipes and rods in position" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Adams, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook (open access)

Snap-Hook

Patent for a snap hook in order to "provide a hook of simple construction that shall be securely locked when in use" (p. 2)
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Adams, Don B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signal System for Electric Cars (open access)

Electric Signal System for Electric Cars

Patent for signal systems for electric railways where wires arranged in connection with the signal lamps at the ends of the blocks and on the cars will be lit to signal caution. There will also be a signal within the car if another moving car in the opposite direction enters the same block.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Adams, Edwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch and Signal System (open access)

Switch and Signal System

Patent for a switch and signal system to be used for railroad signaling and to prevent trains on different tracks from colliding. (lines 12-22)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Adams, Edwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Signal System (open access)

Automatic Signal System

Patent for an automatic signal system for use with railways. Illustrations included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Adams, Powell O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Threading Apparatus For Pipes. (open access)

Threading Apparatus For Pipes.

Patent for improvements of the threading apparatus for pipes through a simple attachment to automobiles wheels. Illustrated figures with descriptions are presented to easily show the ways in which the device attaches and is used.
Date: December 28, 1920
Creator: Adkins, Otto O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Aeschlimann, Adolf E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screen-Hanger. (open access)

Screen-Hanger.

Patent for more accessible window screen hangers. The inventors claimed that these improved screen hangers eliminated the challenge of hanging window screens on the exterior of tall buildings. These screen hangers allowed customers to hang, adjust, and clean screens from the inside of buildings.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
World-Chronometer (open access)

World-Chronometer

Patent for a globe set on top of a pedestal, where the globes rotates by clock work to instruct the user of the time for any given place on the globe. Sides of the pedestal also allow for advertising.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Agnew, Walter F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guano-Distributer. (open access)

Guano-Distributer.

Patent for a guano fertilizer distributor, which prevents spillage of the guano from the device.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Akins, Lee J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses.

Patent for the improvement of lint-rooms and cotton presses, including a description and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1870
Creator: Albertson, Ichabod H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in "combined cotton planters, choppers, and cultivators" (line 9-11).
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Albreekt, Niklaus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fruit-Corers. (open access)

Improvement in Fruit-Corers.

Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
Date: December 17, 1872
Creator: Alexander, Oscar W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which cut the cotton into hills of equal distance apart.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Alexander, Winston B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy. (open access)

Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy.

Patent for a simple and durable machine for cutting stick-candy that is "capable of traveling over a table or other support upon which stick candy in given lengths may be laid, and to so travel over the table that the lengthy sticks of candy will be made to slide over the bed of the machine, under a knife or its equivalent; and a further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the knife may be manipulated at predetermined points in the travel of the machine to cut the lengthy sticks into shorter predetermined lengths" (lines 11-21).
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Allardyce, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sand and Slime Separator and Classifier. (open access)

Sand and Slime Separator and Classifier.

Patent for a sand and slime separator and classifier for use in mining operations.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater (open access)

Water Heater

Patent for a water heater. This invention relies on the heat of a smokestack of the oven to heat the water. Illustrations included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Allen, William Bell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction Engine. (open access)

Traction Engine.

Patent for an improved version of traction engine with ambulatory wheels that improve the design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Altgelt, Herman E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tape-Measure. (open access)

Tape-Measure.

Patent for a tape measure with a claw on one end that the user can affix to a surface to hold one end of the measuring tape and aid in the measuring process.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Anderson, Andrew E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Field Thrashing-Machine. (open access)

Field Thrashing-Machine.

Patent for a field thrashing-machine that can be carried into a field and harvests the tops of standing grain as it is carried forward. The machine also thrashes the grain, separates the grain from the chaff, and delivers the grain in a receptacle.
Date: December 18, 1894
Creator: Anderson, Axel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress (open access)

Mattress

Patent for a mattress. This invention relates more particularly to the pattern of the blank from which the casing is made to provide a simple and durable structure and may be rolled or folded when not in use.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Anderson, Forest H. & McClinton, Elmore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Catching Insects (open access)

Machine for Catching Insects

Patent for a machine for catching insects. This invention is designed for use on cotton plants. Illustration included.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Anderson, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History