Ice-Chamber for Refrigerators. (open access)

Ice-Chamber for Refrigerators.

Patent for an ice chamber for refrigerators, which decreases the amount of ice needed to keep the refrigerator cool and circulates the air better.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Carter, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps (open access)

Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps

Patent for an air valve cage for air brake pumps which reduces the wear on the air brake pump and substantially reduces the maintenance costs of the system.
Date: February 16, 1909
Creator: Mattingly, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn designed for churning butter in smaller quantities and preventing foreign objects from entering. Illustrations included.
Date: January 5, 1909
Creator: Bland, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for a train engine headlight, which shines light around a curve.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Bell, Robert A. & McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Body-Bolster (open access)

Body-Bolster

Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Wahlert, Henry A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake Mechanism (open access)

Beamless Brake Mechanism

Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Soft Peanut Candy (open access)

Process of Making Soft Peanut Candy

Patent for a soft peanut candy recipe with ingredients listed.
Date: August 27, 1907
Creator: Green, Little J. & Heyn, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Action (open access)

Piano Action

Patent for piano actions. This invention provides a connection between the bridle strap and the hammer butt of a piano action. Illustration included.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Deutsch, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck. (open access)

Truck.

Patent for a strong but light steel framed truck with a beamless braking system that is affordable and easy to repair.
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing for Doors and Like Closures. (open access)

Packing for Doors and Like Closures.

Patent for new packing for closures for air-tight and temperature-regulating containers (i.e. refrigerators), with illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Carter, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting (open access)

Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting

Patent for "cutting key-seats in shafting machine. It provides a portable key-seat-cutting especially adapted to operate upon the driving shafts of locomotives in key-seating eccentrics thereon." (lines 7-13)
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Matheus, Karl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ladder (open access)

Ladder

Patent for ladders, more particularly to one adapted for use in connection with freight-cars. (lines 9-11) Design to prevent the grab-irons from becoming disconnected from the rails. (lines 27-29)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a coupling mechanism for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date: October 31, 1905
Creator: Power, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Or Buffing Gear Or Rigging For Cars (open access)

Draft Or Buffing Gear Or Rigging For Cars

Patent for a draft or buffing gear or rigging for rail cars. Illustrations included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Door Fastener (open access)

Car Door Fastener

Patent for a car door fastener. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Box For Boilers (open access)

Fire Box For Boilers

Patent for a fire box for boilers. Illustration included.
Date: December 20, 1904
Creator: Scheliga, Raimund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Wrench (open access)

Nut Wrench

Patent for a nut wrench. Illustration included.
Date: December 13, 1904
Creator: Briscoe, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake (open access)

Beamless Brake

Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freight Car Door (open access)

Freight Car Door

Patent for a freight car door. Illustration included.
Date: August 30, 1904
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R. & Marshall, Edward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer (open access)

Spirometer

Patent for a spirometer. Illustartion included.
Date: August 16, 1904
Creator: Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake (open access)

Car Brake

Patent for a car brake for train cars. Illustrations included.
Date: July 12, 1904
Creator: McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Door (open access)

Car Door

Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spur Attachment For Stirrups (open access)

Spur Attachment For Stirrups

Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Poorter, Charles Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. This inventions is designed to be open without having to dismount from horseback or from a vehicle.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Dansboe, Harry Rasmusson
System: The Portal to Texas History