Resource Type
States
Well-Drilling Machinery
Patent for a drill used to drill wells in alluvial deposits. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Bats for Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts, &c.
Patent for a machine for making bats for mattresses and related items.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Underwood, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well drilling apparatus, which is light and strong and easily transported.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Moon, Richard Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for a windmill. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 2, 1908
Creator:
Tucker, Holland G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Bagging.
Patent for a cutting machine for cloth bags for cotton presses, which has cloth continuously being fed into it and cuts it at predetermined lengths which can be adjusted as needed.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Clark, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Blower
Patent for a well blower that is able to discharge the contents of a well at different air pressure levels. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 15, 1908
Creator:
McEvoy, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Rounding Leather.
Patent for a machine for rounding leather in harness making shops, which produces a uniform product and requires less time and effort than hand rounding leather.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Pfeifer, Reinhold A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench, which can used "as a nut wrench or a pipe wrench" (lines 18-19).
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Splitting Hogs and Cattle Through the Backbones.
Patent for a butchering machine for cutting hogs and cattle through the backbone into two sections lengthwise.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Burleson, Andrew M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Stay.
Patent for a wire fence stay, which holds wire fences together.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weight Motor
Patent for a weight motor. This invention is meant for the use of driving fans to circulate rooms. This "invention refers to the winding mechanism wherein a drum on which the cord is wound and the first gear wheel are independently rotatable in one direction on the winding shaft, the latter having keyed thereon two ratchet wheels which engage respectively, pawls on the drum and on the gear wheel" (line 13-20). Illustration included.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Rackley, John Clavin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machinery
Patent for a machine used to drill water, oil, and gas wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 7, 1908
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Gathering Cotton Squares
Patent for a machine for gathering cotton squares. This invention is designed to gather boll weevil invested cotton and roll the cotton between rollers to kill eggs. Illustration included.
Date:
June 2, 1908
Creator:
Bunting, Karl Saxton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer.
Patent for a well strainer, which is cheaper to make than previous ones without reducing efficiency.
Date:
June 16, 1908
Creator:
Brown, Arthur M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism
Patent for a well mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lister-Sweep.
Patent for a lister sweep for cultivators with improved teeth.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Burns, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Lock.
Patent for locking windows in place at various elevations with illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1908
Creator:
Kinsey, Columbus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator.
Patent for a lubricating device for use on railroad cars, which continuously supplies lubricant to the journal box of the train car.
Date:
October 6, 1908
Creator:
Maness, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Patent for a water heater operated by heating pipes and coils. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Wood, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Gearing.
Patent for a gearing for windmills, which provides "a more even and steady... stroke of the pump rod" (lines10-11).
Date:
September 29, 1908
Creator:
Keys, Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magazine Rifle
Patent for a magazine rifle. This invention consists of a combined breech block and cartridge carrier. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Catron, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Purifying Apparatus.
Patent for a water purifying device for use in water distribution systems, which mixes the water with a chemical salt and then takes it into a settling basin where mud and such sink to the bottom, leaving pure water on top which is let out for distribution.
Date:
March 17, 1908
Creator:
Fender, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Pumping Apparatus
Patent for well pumping apparatus. This invention is designed for the improvement of pumping liquid from deep wells. Illustration included.
Date:
September 29, 1908
Creator:
Stephenson, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loading Apparatus
Patent for a loading apparatus that uses flexing sections that open and closes. Illustration included.
Date:
June 2, 1908
Creator:
Lipscomb, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History