Ball Bearing Jack (open access)

Ball Bearing Jack

Patent for a ball bearing jack. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop. (open access)

Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop.

Patent for combining statement-blank and envelop that comprises a signature that provides the ability to add the bank statements in a paper that could be folded to create an envelop.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Harwell, Mace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter (open access)

Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter

Patent for "agricultural implements in which a single frame is utilized to support various kinds of mechanisms, and in the present invention there is included a frame of simple and improved construction adapted for carrying and to be used in connection with earth-engaging, implements, such as harrow-teeth and cultivator blades, as well as rollers, for the purpose of crushing clods and leveling the surface of the land." (lines 8-18). Includes description and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1905
Creator: Johnson, Alfred Butler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Candy Pulling Machine (open access)

Candy Pulling Machine

Patent for candy pulling machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Jenner, Edward J. & Hildreth, Herbert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a generator that runs on acetylene gas with a component that releases excess gas in the event the gasometer is overcharged, including illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Menczer, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This device includes improvements that allow the machine's operators to control the movement and the position of the hoes of the cotton chopper.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Jezek, Anton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Splicer and Tightener (open access)

Wire Splicer and Tightener

Patent for a wire splicer and tightener. The design has improvements from earlier wire splicers and is designed more for wire fence repair, but can also be used for stretching telegraph wires.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Regenier, John G. & Hamby, Marion Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Screen (open access)

Well Screen

Patent for a well screen. This invention is intended to screen sand used in well drilling. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weighing and Lifting Device (open access)

Weighing and Lifting Device

Patent for a weighing and lifting device. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Davis, James W. & Alexander, Thomas J.
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
Lubricating Axle (open access)

Lubricating Axle

Patent for a lubricating axle.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Birdwell, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for a windmill. It turns creating rotary motion, caused by the wind, which is used as a pumping power source.
Date: November 2, 1905
Creator: Doty, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thimble. (open access)

Thimble.

Patent for an improved design of thimble which includes a needle-threader and a thread-cutter that can be used without removal of the thimble from the finger through the design of metal cone shapes as part of the thimble's design.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Huntington, Spencer Hinsdale
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stapling Machine (open access)

Stapling Machine

Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Kennedy, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow (open access)

Sulky Plow

Patent for a sulky plow. This invention is designed to "provide a simple, durable, and highly efficient means for angularly adjusting the rear caster or follower wheel, which runs in the newly-made furrow" (lines 16-19). Illustrations included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Zant, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy (open access)

Toy

Patent for a toy. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Whitefield, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Saturating (open access)

Process of Saturating

Patent for a process saturating wood with preservatives. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Jones, William C.; Stratford, William R. J.; Byrnes, Frank B. & Nixon, Edward J.
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
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
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
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Bantz, Frederick Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History