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Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: Gribble, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Straightner (open access)

Axle Straightner

Patent for an axle straightener. Illustration included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Steadham, John S. & Steadham, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Fastening (open access)

Bale Band Fastening

Patent for a bale band fastening. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Feeder (open access)

Boiler Feeder

Patent for boiler feeder. This invention is designed as a gravity feed automatic boiler. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Finch, Clark Ethan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.

Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churning-Machine. (open access)

Churning-Machine.

Patent for improvements in churning-machines by using a “pair of slotted crank-arms, which having pitman-rods adjustably connected thereto and to the upper portion of the churn-dasher, so that by adjusting the pitman-rods longitudinally of the crank-arms the vertical movement or throw of the dasher may be regulated at will.” (Lines 17-22.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Strickland, Orien S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot (open access)

Coffee Pot

Patent for a coffee pot. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: James, Will S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c (open access)

Combined Closer And Latch For Gates, &c

Patent for combined closer and latch for gates. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: McKinney, Pleasant M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner (open access)

Cotton Seed Cleaner

Patent for a cotton seed cleaner. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double Rotary Force Pump (open access)

Double Rotary Force Pump

Patent for double rotary force pump. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Rotary, Julius R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drawing Board (open access)

Drawing Board

Patent for a drawing board. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: McAnelly, Ernest Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Apparatus (open access)

Dredging Apparatus

Patent for dredging apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Jones, Fred A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp (open access)

Guard-Rail Clamp

Patent for a simple, durable and adjustable guard rail clamp for securing guard rails to the main rails of a railroad track "as at bridge approaches and opposite to frog points" (lines 11-12) without the use of drill bolt-holes.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Butcher, Jasper; Thomas, James L. & Butcher, Jasper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Attachment (open access)

Hame Attachment

Patent for a hame attachment. Illustration included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Miller, John A. & McKenzie, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow. Illustrations included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Stanley, Simon K.; Maynard, Willie C. & Maynard, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hat Fastener (open access)

Hat Fastener

Patent for hat fastener. illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: MacDonald, Singlton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hook and Eye. (open access)

Hook and Eye.

Patent for improvement in hook and eye in which it will enable the “coacting parts to be readily engaged with each other, be closed with a snap by lateral pressure, which will not slacken or have play where they engage each other. It will not become accidentally detached, and have resilience between the engaged members that insures their remaining connected. It also will not have gap between the dress flaps when the members join together.” (Lines 13-21) Illustration is included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Priest, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Grinding Valve Seats (open access)

Machine For Grinding Valve Seats

Patent for a simpler machine for Grinding Valve-Seats. This machine relates to the machinery involved in the grinding and finishing of valve seats.
Date: July 28, 1905
Creator: Meyners, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Robertson, George Francis & Rodgers, Archie N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for a nut-lock which is compromised of a T-shaped locking-pin that fits the the groves of the bolt and holds the nut in place.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Jinks, Henry Leonard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer for Plants (open access)

Poison-Distributer for Plants

Patent for a mobile, horse-drawn poison-distributer for application of a dust or spray "to destroy insects and vermin" (line 11) on "as many as five rows of plants at a time" (lines 38-39).
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Ward, Noble Wesley; Ward, Pleasant Simeon & Ward, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Cabinet (open access)

Printer's Cabinet

Patent for a printer's cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Dorsey, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener. (open access)

Sash-Fastener.

Patent for a Sash Fastener that can be used to improve the sash holders function with a simplifying construction.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Dunn, Aaron Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spindle-Bushing (open access)

Spindle-Bushing

Patent for a spindle-bushing, a device used to "repair worn axle spindles and hub sleeves" (lines 10-11) by encasing the worn spindles or sleeves with outer shells.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Hines, Jessie J. & Wilkerson, Eldred B.
System: The Portal to Texas History