Buckle (open access)

Buckle

Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Allen, Orcenith F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling - Press. (open access)

Baling - Press.

Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Curry, Monroe & Roberts, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener (open access)

Can Opener

Patent for can-opener which uses a fulcrum point that pierces the center of the can's lid and a circular blade to cut an opening around the circumference.
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Pierce, Jesse Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed or Douche Pan. (open access)

Bed or Douche Pan.

Patent for improvements in bed or douche pans, in which it will not spill easily and is easy to clean. Illustration is included.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Williams, Bettie C. & Scott, Arthur C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capsule Filler (open access)

Capsule Filler

Patent for a device that fills capsules with medicine. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Brown, Patrick Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capsule-Filler (open access)

Capsule-Filler

Patent for a capsule filler which allows a prescriptionist to simultaneously fill multiple capsules with medication. Illustrations included.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Brown, Patrick Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester Attachment. (open access)

Harvester Attachment.

Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Marshall, John Henry.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Line (open access)

Clothes Line

Patent for a clothes line. Illustration included.
Date: November 27, 1906
Creator: Boese, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Mechanism. (open access)

Air-Brake Mechanism.

Patent for "a new and useful air-brake mechanisms in relation to a pressure controller and distributer designed to perform the several independent and joint functions of a triple valve, a pressure-retaining valve, and a pressure relief or reducing valve."
Date: May 29, 1900
Creator: Dillander, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Animal-Trap and Chicken-Coop. (open access)

Combined Animal-Trap and Chicken-Coop.

Patent for a combined animal trap and chicken coop, which has a compartment attached to the coop that is a trap for rats and other animals.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Moore, Henry Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Boese, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Peschel, Otto J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed (open access)

Bed

Patent for a bed. This invention is designed for invalids that also provides a bed pan. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Myers, Nancy S. A. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "...a Bailing-Press for Making Cylindrical Bales of Cotton..." (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn dasher that will fit in any size churn and is simple and economical to produce.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Koch, Rudolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Grubbs, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvement to cylindrical baling-press for packing cotton, cotton-seed hulls, bran and similar objects into cylindrical bales, including illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press (open access)

Cotton-Press

Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking Tool (open access)

Wireworking Tool

Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date: September 17, 1901
Creator: Dickey, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor. (open access)

Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor.

Patent for an improved wheel cultivator, which includes a planter attachment, a hopper, a seed-dropping and fertilizer distributing mechanism, and covering plows.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Bigler, B. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for a wheel which joins the spokes to a metal sleeve surrounding the hub of the wheel.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Votaw, Charles Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Running-Gear. (open access)

Vehicle Running-Gear.

Patent for vehicle running-gear, catered toward machinery that has fifth-wheel reach beams. Designed for smoother vehicle functioning.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Singler, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect Collecting and Destroying Machine

Patent for insect collecting and destroying machine. This invention uses brushes that mechanically collects boll weevils off of cotton. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Steinmann, Herman Werner
System: The Portal to Texas History