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Seal-Padlock (open access)

Seal-Padlock

Patent for a seal padlock, designed to "render it absolutely impossible to gain access to the interior of the lock" (lines 12-14). Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Abrams, Frederic
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signaling Mechanism (open access)

Railway Signaling Mechanism

Patent for a railway signaling mechanism. This invention "relates to certain new and useful improvements in electric railway and block signaling in which means are provided for indicating in the engine cab to the engineer the condition of the road ahead" (lines 9-13). Illustrations included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Adams, Edwin Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker. (open access)

Cotton-Picker.

Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Adkins, Willis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Aeschlimann, Adolf E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toboggan-Slide. (open access)

Toboggan-Slide.

Patent for a toboggan slide for use in amusement parks that is easily taken up and down and includes guard rails and ant-friction devices to help guide the toboggan down the slide. It also provides a method of easily moving toboggans from one slide to another.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Allen, Orcenith F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Colter-Clamp (open access)

Adjustable Colter-Clamp

Patent for a colter clamp that may be fastened to a plow beam. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Allin, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Setting Implement. (open access)

Tire-Setting Implement.

Patent for a tire setting tool, which resembles tongs for forcing the tire onto a metal vehicle wheel.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Allison, James Rufus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book or Music Leaf Turner. (open access)

Book or Music Leaf Turner.

Patent for a music page turner, which can be operated by a lever or foot pedal.
Date: October 22, 1907
Creator: Alrich, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Light Regulator (open access)

Window Light Regulator

Patent for a window light regulator. The light regulator is designed of two shades. The first shape is dark and the other is transparent. Illustration included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: Alrich, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Root and Stalk Pulling Machine (open access)

Root and Stalk Pulling Machine

Patent for a root and stalk pulling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: Anders, Joseph Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow designed to cultivate only one row of crops at a time. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Arnold, Jesse E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for "useful improvements in combined cotton choppers and cultivators" (lines 10-11) including illustrations.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Arnold, Willard M. ; W. M. Arnold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Device (open access)

Sewing Device

Patent for a sewing device relating to the sewing of bags. This invention consists of a helical needle for drawing stitches without having to twist or turn the sewing device. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Ascue, Elbert & Crank, R. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Brake (open access)

Vehicle Brake

Patent for a vehicle brake. This invention uses brake shoes. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Ashinhurst, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float Valve (open access)

Float Valve

Patent for a float value. This invention is designed to automatically close. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Axtell, Fred W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knife (open access)

Knife

Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Cutter. (open access)

Vegetable-Cutter.

Patent for a vegetable cutter that cuts cleanly, rapidly, and with force.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction (open access)

Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction

Patent for an eye testing device that has a movable lens, a measuring device for correction, and two different cards with test type on them which are fed into the machine during testing for astigmatism and myopia, presbyopia, and hyperopia to determine the level of correction needed in glasses.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Bahn, Gustavus Adolphus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Uterine Supporter. (open access)

Uterine Supporter.

Patent for a uterine supporter which has a soft and flexible bulb supporting the uterus and a more rigid opposite end keeping the bulb in place. The device attaches to a cord on the waistband.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Baird, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Baker, Alonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Setting Machine (open access)

Tire Setting Machine

Patent for a tire setting machine. This invention is designed for setting tires that are cold. Illustrations included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Baker, Charles Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Audiphone (open access)

Audiphone

Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
Date: October 15, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signaling Device. (open access)

Electric Signaling Device.

Patent for an electric signal device which has a shelf with a pad of paper, which when lowered signals a central location elsewhere. It is optimized for use by manufacturing companies watchmen and telegraph operators to send in reports of their location at various intervals.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signal Device (open access)

Railway Signal Device

Patent for a railway signal device used to "remind a telegraph operator of orders received concerning a given train" (lines 11-12). Illustrations included.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History