Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hoe and Edge-Trimmer. (open access)

Combined Hoe and Edge-Trimmer.

Patent for a tool that combines a how and edge-trimmer in one. The tool "may be conveniently used for trimming the edges of lawns, walks, and flower-beds and which may also be used as a weeding scuffle-hoe and as a sod-cutter" (lines 11-14) including illustrations
Date: August 29, 1905
Creator: Hough, James C. & Oldham, J. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Urn (open access)

Coffee Urn

Patent for a coffee urn. Illustration included.
Date: July 18, 1905
Creator: Robertson, Cullen Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check Book Cover (open access)

Check Book Cover

Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Templeton, David A.; Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brush (open access)

Brush

Patent for improved functions of bath-brushes, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1905
Creator: Williams, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an animal trap "having a vestibule which will be operated by the weight go the animal entering the same to close the entrance-door and open an exit-door into a receiving compartment or cage" (line 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Kirk, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerating Churn (open access)

Aerating Churn

Patent for aerating churn. This design of churn is designed to aerate milk as it churns. Illustration included.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cutting Thong Holes (open access)

Machine For Cutting Thong Holes

Patent for a machine for cutting thong holes. "This invenetion relates to leather-working machines, and more particularly to machines for cutting holes in leather for the purpose of sewing in thongs" (7-10). Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Eberle, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Elevating And Feeding Seed Cotton (open access)

Machine For Elevating And Feeding Seed Cotton

Patent for a machine for elevating and feeding seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger (open access)

Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger

Patent for improvements to loose-leaf individual or general bank-ledgers, mainly pertaining to the ledger's structure and ease of use through adding leaves or sheets without disrupting current leaves or sheets. Includes illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer (open access)

Vaporizer

Patent for a vaporizer. Illustration included.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Beaumont, Godfrey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a valve. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Kinnison, Hallah C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Trap (open access)

Insect Trap

Patent for an insect trap. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Smith, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Cut Off (open access)

Water Cut Off

Patent for water cut off. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Parker, Thomas H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music Indicator (open access)

Music Indicator

Patent for a music indicator. This device is readily applied to a piano or other keyed musical instruments in order to properly indicate the various chords, notes, scales, and the like. Illustration included.
Date: October 10, 1905
Creator: MacMaster, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tie Bar (open access)

Tie Bar

Patent for a tie bar. Illustration included.
Date: January 17, 1905
Creator: Mareburger, Robert Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester (open access)

Spark-Arrester

Patent for an improved and simplified spark arrester, which deflects sparks and other products of combustion back into the furnace or into a designated receptacle.
Date: October 10, 1905
Creator: Anderson, Oliver Lacy
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
Pump Valve (open access)

Pump Valve

Patent for a pump valve. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Bassett, John Mott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Step Ladder (open access)

Step Ladder

Patent for a step ladder. Illustration included.
Date: June 6, 1905
Creator: Soergel, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Bantz, Frederick Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for a nut lock. Illustration inlcuded.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Taylor, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrostatic Magnetic Separator. (open access)

Electrostatic Magnetic Separator.

Patent for a magnetic separator that makes use of electrostatic to aid in the process of separation. The invention is said to accomplish "the most efficient magnetic separation in which the action of a magnetic roller is assisted and materially improved by the presence of a static current" (lines 16-19) including illustrations.
Date: July 11, 1905
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Four-Horse Evener for Wheel-Plows (open access)

Four-Horse Evener for Wheel-Plows

Patent for a four horse evener for wheel plows that improves disk or moldboard. It corrects the plows tendency to swing when met with the ground and utilizes the same force to relieve strain from the horses.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: Wolcott, Oliver P.
System: The Portal to Texas History