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Apparatus for Extracting Oil
Patent for a device for extracting cotton seed oil which ensures even cooking of the seeds by constant stirring.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Lauerman, Vandy Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator
Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Watkins, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Washing Machine
Patent for a machine that washes bottles. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Greer, Jesse Wade
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closure for Oil-Cans, Jugs, &c.
Patent for an invention used to prevent the loss of closures for cans, jugs, and various other containers. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Tabler, Guy T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Apparatus for Mowers.
Patent for a cutting blade for cutting tough weeds and stalks that attaches to a standard grass cutting lawnmower.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Needham, Walter Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attracting Flies
Patent for a fly trapper. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Sims, Benjamin W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Producing Furnace
Patent for a gas producing furnace that is "highly efficient in the combustion of slack coal, lignite, and other gas producing material" (lines 12-14).
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Gamer, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gland or Swab-Holder
Patent for a holder for swabs used for lubricating pistons, valve rods, and other similar devices. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Slaydon, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for home use, which has a steam generator which operates automatically.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Hoffman, Robert V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench
Patent for a pipe wrench. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Lubke, Ernest F. & Reed, Edmund C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street or Station Indicator.
Patent for "indicators for displaying to passengers in a car the names of approaching streets or stations" (lines 9-11) including mechanical specifications and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Higgins, Polk Maderson & Lee Dolphia Harmes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap
Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Howard, Martin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton
Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Brennan, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle Straightener
Patent for an axle straightener. Illustration included.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Taylor, John Quincy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp
Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Martin, Delia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader
Patent for a pneumatic cotton thresher, cleaner, and storage unloader for use in cotton gins.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calendar
Patent for a circular perpetual calendar.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Rowe, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Funnel and Dipper.
Patent for a ladle with an attached funnel for pouring the liquid out.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Hanson, Henry Harrison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer.
Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal.
Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan-Deflector.
Patent for a fan deflector to deflect air to various portions of the room.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pianissimo Device.
Patent for a pianissimo device for upright pianos, which "takes up the lost motion when the soft pedal is used by automatic means" (lines 14-16).
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Decker, Herman L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Puzzle.
Patent for a wooden cube puzzle made up of many irregular shaped pieces, which can be manufactured to be hard or easy.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Critchett, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Time-Strike for Watch and Clock Movements.
Patent for time striking mechanism for watches and clocks that strikes different amounts of time for the quarters of an hour so that the approximate time may be known when there is no light available to see the clock face.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Stricker, Carl H. J. & Meyer, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History