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Ventilator. (open access)

Ventilator.

Patent for a ventilating cowl for buildings for fire prevention by causing smoke and sparks to pass outside of a building or deflate to the surface below. The cowl is cone shaped with a deflecting surface and has several rings through which smoke and sparks can pass through to the outside.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Ashorn, Inshrish
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Baling-Press (open access)

Condenser for Baling-Press

Patent for "a device capable of being applied to any horizontal baling-press for the purpose of compressing the charge of hay or other material before it enters the baling-chamber" (lines 10-14).
Date: November 12, 1889
Creator: Bailey, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Electric-Light Holder. (open access)

Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.

Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Balke, Morris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stationery Filing-Case (open access)

Stationery Filing-Case

Patent for a stationery filing case. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Bane, Hamilton Sayers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent introduces the inventor's specific improvements to oil-burning stoves. The air and oil are fed into the chamber of the stove and thoroughly mixed before burning.
Date: August 24, 1920
Creator: Beckman, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer. (open access)

Well-Strainer.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in well strainers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 24, 1898
Creator: Booth, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Chute for Dipping-Vats. (open access)

Stock-Chute for Dipping-Vats.

Patent for new improvements that allow for easier transition of animals from a stock-chute into a dipping vat because the "animal will overcome the effect of the counterbalancing weight and will cause the discharge end of the chute to move downwardly precipitating the animal into the vat or trough" (lines 20-26) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1921
Creator: Burt, Clement P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Alarm (open access)

Bicycle Alarm

Patent for a "simple and cheap as well as ornamental bicycle-whistle...of novel and peculiar construction, adapted for attachment to the bicycle and made to sound at pleasure" (lines 14-18). Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Crump, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a simple, metallic, and inexpensive clothes pin that can be used with a rope or wire line. It can be attached easily but will not blow off. It does not rust or tear the clothes.
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Crump, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cork Extractor. (open access)

Cork Extractor.

Patent for a new and improved cork extractor. This design consists, "with the side-slitted cork, of the double-wire extractor having loop ends engaging the slits of the cork and extending beyond the same and the securing-wire passing through said loop ends and around the shoulder of the bottle-neck" (lines 47-52).
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Crump, William E., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaginal Irrigator (open access)

Vaginal Irrigator

Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Farrington, Charles Oliphint & Watson, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaginal Irrigator (open access)

Vaginal Irrigator

Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Farrington, Charles Oliphint & Watson, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hook for Spoon-Handles. (open access)

Hook for Spoon-Handles.

Patent for a detachable hook, made of wire, for spoon-handles and the like, and is used to prevent a spoon or similar article from slipping into the vessel in which it is placed. It can be easily removed from the spoon-handle.
Date: December 29, 1896
Creator: Gannon, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Hood Attachment. (open access)

Automobile-Hood Attachment.

Patent for a device that can be affixed to the hood of a car, preventing rainwater from leaking into the electricals under the hood and behind the dashboard.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Gerhart, Joe P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers. (open access)

Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.

Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Gollmer, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Discharge Device for Cotton-Seed Unloaders. (open access)

Discharge Device for Cotton-Seed Unloaders.

Patent for a discharge device in which cotton seed can be unloaded to an elevator, conveyer, or elsewhere. The invention also has the ability to clean and cool the cotton seed while being unloaded, also making it dry which makes it in better condition for storing.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Golloher, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Tent. (open access)

Collapsible Tent.

Patent for improving collapsible tent rods and corner posts that support the structure, with illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Hackfield, Arnold W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel (open access)

Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel

Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Haferkamp, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shot-Canister (open access)

Shot-Canister

Patent for "to provide a revolving case having a series of annularly or otherwise located compartments formed of transparent material and adapted for the reception of shot of dierent grades; to provide means for delivering the shot from the compartments and also for gaging the same before and after delivery" (lines 13-20).
Date: September 17, 1889
Creator: Harigel, Amil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Washing Dishes. (open access)

Machine for Washing Dishes.

Patent for a new and improved dish-washing machine. This design "relates to machines for cleansing dishes, clothes, and other articles of that class in which the water is agitated. The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and generally efficient machine that will perform its functions speedily, and will require but very little expenditure of operating power" (lines 10-17).
Date: December 4, 1883
Creator: Harris, Charles Alexander.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Making Machine. (open access)

Bat-Making Machine.

Patent for a cotton bat making machine which allows the cotton lint to be positioned better on the press and the outer bag material covering the cotton lint to be attached together quickly. Illustration is included.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a cotton-gin that "has for its object to provide means for operating upon or permitting lint cotton, wool and other fibrous material to be ginned from a roll by means of saws as is commonly done in working seed cotton without injury to the mechanism" (lines 12-17).
Date: August 7, 1894
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Making Bats for Mattresses. (open access)

Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.

Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or room or other receptacle into which the material for the mattress-bats is falling from the gin is provided with a means to carry the ginned material along from the gin as fast as it is worked. The bats may be formed in one long continuous web,from which the desired length may be cut" (lines 19-34)
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Mattresses. (open access)

Method of Making Mattresses.

Patent for a new and improved method of making mattresses. This invention "consists in first disintegrating the material and simultaneously forcing the same into a suitable receptacle, fanning said material as it passes into the receptacle, and finally compressing the same . . . thereby dispensing with tacking of the bat" (lines 15-22).
Date: March 5, 1889
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History