Bicycle Support (open access)

Bicycle Support

Patent for a bicycle support, which can be attached to different bicycles and carried in the pocket.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Moss, Eric
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Control for Gas Water-Heaters. (open access)

Automatic Control for Gas Water-Heaters.

Patent for improvements to "a gas control for instantaneous gas water heaters" (lines 9-10), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Hamilton, Paul H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil. (open access)

Cooking Utensil.

Patent for cooking utensil designed for roasting coffee, popping corn, roasting meat, and other food by hand over a fire or flame by rotating. The device is made of metal and mesh, turns by cranking, and the length of the shaft is adjustable for stability.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Bogue, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (open access)

Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings

Patent for an improved apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (relates to molding devices for curing tire casings) which is easily and quickly set up and knocked down, holds casings safely in position while being cured, and highly efficient in curing tire casings.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Bongio, Philip P. & Stephenson Elonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake-Band Clencher (open access)

Brake-Band Clencher

Patent for improvements in brake-band clenchers. It is intended to "provide an improved Ford brake band clencher adapted for holding the brake bands in place while the transmission case is being replaced" (lines 14-18).
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: McCaffrey, Harry J. & Roberge, Edgar, J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wardrobe (open access)

Wardrobe

Patent for a Wardrobe that is easy to assemble, dust proof and inexpensive construction
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Pape, Bruno L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tube-Expander (open access)

Tube-Expander

Patent for a tube expander for setting boiler tubes in the holes in the tube-sheet, which provides simplicity and improvement of its construction.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Walsh, Emmet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for improvements for internal combustion engines. Improvements include a more compact design, easier to access for repairs, and increased durability and efficiency.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Ward, John Price
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Machine. (open access)

Well-Boring Machine.

Patent for improved mechanism of well-boring machine in which it “composed of as few parts as possible, which will effectively grip and rotate a drill-rod or pipe containing coupling and reducing - nipples, or composed of length or sections of varying diameters without impeding the end movement or deranging the central position of said drill-rod or pipe, and without delaying the progress of the machine, to adjust or change any part or parts thereof, also to improve the means for gripping the drill-rod or pipe and to eliminate the tendency to split or longitudinally furrow the latter, which would render the same liable to open and twist off when subject to high pressure during the progress of boring.” (Lines 20-34) Illustration is included.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Woods, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.

Patent for a "compound for killing the cotton-worm and other insects that infest, eat, and damage the leaves of the cotton-plant," which "consists in combining a poisonous, an adhesive, and a diffusive ingredient in one and the same compound." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1873
Creator: Royall, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bag-Fasteners. (open access)

Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1879
Creator: Terrell, Will
System: The Portal to Texas History
Maize, Kafir-Corn, And Cane Heading Machine. (open access)

Maize, Kafir-Corn, And Cane Heading Machine.

Patent for improvements in the construction of maize, Kafir corn, and cane heading machines that allows "a single machine to harvest two rows at the same time" (lines 12-14), reducing labor time and costs, including illustrations and a description.
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Cozart, Walace Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Power. (open access)

Mechanical Power.

Patent for motors “designed for running light machinery – such as well-pumps, churns, sewing-machines, washing-machines, &c.; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims” (lines 10-15) including instructions and illustrations. “These motors are simple, durable, and efficient, and are not likely to get out of order” (lines 72-73).
Date: June 17, 1884
Creator: Wise, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace and Trace Chain Supporter. (open access)

Trace and Trace Chain Supporter.

Patent for a new and improved trace and trace-chain supporter. This design consists "of the pivoted springy trace or chain keeper, and the hook or loop having its outer branch perforated, whereby the keeper itself is enabled to act as a spring, and after being sprung into its place is retained above the trace or chain by the conjoint agency of a shoulder or offset on the keeper and the outer branch of the loop or hook" (lines 43-50).
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Wroe, Missouria E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Clutch and Traction Equalizer. (open access)

Hydraulic Clutch and Traction Equalizer.

Patent for hydraulic clutches and traction equalizers. A "device for automobiles or other mother driven vehicles designed to be used in the place of the mechanism commonly known as the differential."
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Apparatus. (open access)

Pumping Apparatus.

Patent for a "pumping, or water-elevating apparatus," (line 9) including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Simmons, Jesse W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tatting-Shuttle. (open access)

Tatting-Shuttle.

Patent for an improvement in shuttles for making tatting which both winds the thread and uses spring tension to prevent it from unwinding, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Houseman, George Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Vehicle Heater. (open access)

Motor-Vehicle Heater.

Patent for improvements for a motor vehicle heater that "convey the exhaust gases from the muffler to a container capable of inflation and to inflate said container whereby a heating or warming element for the passengers of the car is provided" (lines 10-14).
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Barrett, Eli B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing-Machine (open access)

Hoeing-Machine

Patent for improvements to hoeing machines "as will cause the hoes to cultivate around the particular plant pointed out without it being necessary for the indicator to remain at rest while each plant is being hoed; second, to provide a pair of oscillating disks that cultivate before and behind the plant as they oscillate across the row" (lines 15-21).
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hobby Horse. (open access)

Hobby Horse.

Patent for a new and improved hobby horse. This design "consists in providing a 'hobby-horse' or a 'stick-horse' with a pivoted head, to which is preferably connected a spring, so that the swinging of the head will give the appearance of the horse pulling on the reins held by the operator. The invention comprises a head pivoted at one end, a spring secured thereto and to the horse, and a lip on said head to limit the downward movement thereof" (lines 14-24).
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Alexander, Horace C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine. (open access)

Engine.

Patent for improvements in engines including governors which have "inertia bars or governing weights" (lines 12-13) including illustrations. In this improvement, the "inertia bars constitute parts of the counterweight" which "counterbalance engine cranks" (lines 14-16).
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Pratt, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float for Delinters (open access)

Float for Delinters

Patent for a new float for cotton seed de-linters. Illustrations are included.
Date: June 17, 1910
Creator: Blanchard, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foot Bench-Shears (open access)

Foot Bench-Shears

Patent for foot-operated shears for cuttings bands on bales or general shearing, including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Howlett, Peyton L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires. (open access)

Method of and Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Methods of an Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires," (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Anthony, Daniel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History