Curtain-Fixture (open access)

Curtain-Fixture

Patent for a curtain fixture which raises and lowers curtain shades by tightening and loosening. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Johnson, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Spout (open access)

Pump Spout

Patent for a pump spouts. Illustration included.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Hutchison, James Oliver
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loading Apparatus (open access)

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
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher to stretch regular wires or barbed wired for fencing. Illustrations included.
Date: February 20, 1908
Creator: Tyer, Sampson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie Lifter (open access)

Railway Tie Lifter

Patent for railway tie lifter. Illustration included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Norton, James W. & Collins, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Fender. (open access)

Plow-Fender.

Patent for a plow fender, which allows a plow to be operated next to plant rows without injuring them and deflects rocks and other obstacles.
Date: October 22, 1907
Creator: Skidmore, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Burran, William Jefferson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potato-Cutter (open access)

Potato-Cutter

Patent for a machine that can cut potatoes and other vegetables into small cooking sized pieces. It has removable blades that allow for different sized pieces to be cut based on the needs of the user.
Date: May 29, 1906
Creator: Lansford, Isaac B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus. (open access)

Ventilating Apparatus.

Patent for a ventilating apparatus for railway cars for the purpose of supplying air to railway car interiors without needing to open a window (which tends to also let in smoke and dust), including illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Parrish, Ezekiel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garden Rake and Cultivator. (open access)

Garden Rake and Cultivator.

Patent for a garden rake and cultivator that can be adjust in various positions to do the gardening works for the growing plants.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Guice, Benjamin J. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Spicer, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove (open access)

Stove

Patent for a stove. This invention has a fire box and directed combustion. Illustrations included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Moore, Sidney S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Stirrup. (open access)

Safety-Stirrup.

Patent for improvements in safety-stirrups by providing a device to release the rider’s foot safely if the rider accidentally fall from a horse; and means to retain the movable member of the stirrup in its closed or open position. (Lines 10-17) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Parrish, Ezekiel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle (open access)

Saddle

Patent for a saddle. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Moore, Sidney S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check (open access)

Door-Check

Patent for a door check that holds a door open in a secured position. This particular door securer has a manual operation lock independent of the knob-spindle.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Skidmore, John C. & Tyer, Author
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Line Buckle. (open access)

Check-Line Buckle.

Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Snell, David C. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Plow. (open access)

Cultivator-Plow.

Patent for improvements in cultivator-plow through the positioning and connection of parts. Adjustable plow for different cultivating functions and different crops, especially for cotton. Illustration and materials recommendations included.
Date: March 18, 1902
Creator: Sheffield, James A. D. & Sheffield, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Carrier (open access)

Trace-Carrier

Patent for trace carrier for a plow "especially designed to support the trace adjustably in a vertical direction, so as to vary the line of the draft upon the plow and also provide a guide and support for the reins" (lines 9-13), including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1900
Creator: Smith, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Brooks, John Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History