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Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Lewis, Joseph Wesley & Phillips, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop. (open access)

Combined Statement-Blank and Envelop.

Patent for combining statement-blank and envelop that comprises a signature that provides the ability to add the bank statements in a paper that could be folded to create an envelop.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Harwell, Mace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton

Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Kelly, Hiram H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Kindler (open access)

Automatic Fire-Kindler

Patent for an automatic fire kindler which can be put on a timer and start a fire in a stove with a bundle of matches inserted into the device ahead of time.
Date: November 17, 1908
Creator: Bates, Samuel F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Cleaner for Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved cleaner for seed cotton, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Hart, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scraper and Fender. (open access)

Combined Scraper and Fender.

Patent for a combined scraper and fender for plows.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Buttrill, David B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Goebel, Alois
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles (open access)

Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles

Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Bogue, Judson L. & Jennings, David M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Match Box (open access)

Automatic Match Box

Patent for automatic match box. This device is designed to eject matches to a suitable distance. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Hanna, John Griffin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Soldering Machine (open access)

Can Soldering Machine

Patent for a can soldering machine. This device is designed to solder multiple units of lids to cans. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Irwin, Wiley I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Holder (open access)

Bag-Holder

Patent for bag holder that is adapted to receive and hold bags of any size in a way that is convenient for removal as needed.
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Nosker, Orren G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Measuring Instrument (open access)

Combination Measuring Instrument

Patent for a combination measuring instrument. Illustrations included.
Date: November 8, 1904
Creator: Phenix, William Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter (open access)

Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter

Patent for "agricultural implements in which a single frame is utilized to support various kinds of mechanisms, and in the present invention there is included a frame of simple and improved construction adapted for carrying and to be used in connection with earth-engaging, implements, such as harrow-teeth and cultivator blades, as well as rollers, for the purpose of crushing clods and leveling the surface of the land." (lines 8-18). Includes description and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1905
Creator: Johnson, Alfred Butler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condenser. (open access)

Condenser.

Patent for a condenser for converting exhaust steam from motors into potable water for ice making.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Galbraith, David G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Box. (open access)

Collapsible Box.

Patent for a collapsible box for use in shipping goods.
Date: November 8, 1910
Creator: Pinto, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Cementing Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Treating The Butt-Ends Of Poles (open access)

Apparatus For Treating The Butt-Ends Of Poles

Patent for an apparatus for treating the butt ends of poles. Illustration included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Logan, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine (open access)

Building Block Machine

Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to form blocks out of plastic material into artificial stone, as well as molding concrete blocks. Illustrations included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Latimer, Samuel A.; Dunkin, James J.; Stacey, J. H.; Hall, A. L.; Porter, R. S.; Haynes, S. F. et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anchor Post (open access)

Anchor Post

Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Small, Wily & Brock, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blotting Pad (open access)

Blotting Pad

Patent for an ink blotting pad. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Smith, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brooder (open access)

Brooder

Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Becker, August B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pencil Holder and Sharpener. (open access)

Combined Pencil Holder and Sharpener.

Patent for a combined pencil holder and sharpener, which uses the sharpener as a pencil cap.
Date: November 30, 1909
Creator: Haase, Conrad H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Grain Knife (open access)

Corn or Grain Knife

Patent for a corn or grain knife used for harvesting. Illustration included.
Date: November 1, 1904
Creator: Tilley, Louis R.
System: The Portal to Texas History