Automatic Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Gresham, Louis David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Gauntt, Granville B. & Floeckinger, Frank C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Key. (open access)

Key.

Patent for a key, which can be produced in quantity but without any of them being able to open the same door.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Setting Machine (open access)

Valve Setting Machine

Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Callihan. Willie H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milking Apparatus (open access)

Milking Apparatus

Patent for a milking apparatus. This invention is designed to imitate the action of hand milking or a calf's sucking. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Deen, Irwin Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mute Attachment for Pianos (open access)

Mute Attachment for Pianos

Patent for an attachment that mutes pianos. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Pfeifer, Edmund Irwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Padlock. (open access)

Padlock.

Patent for a padlock, which can only be opened with a certain key and prevents the use of many lock-picking devices.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a farm gate, which can be opened from a vehicle and stays open until a second operation is performed to close the gate.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Matthews, Joseph William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain Drying and Cooling Machine. (open access)

Grain Drying and Cooling Machine.

Patent for a machine for drying and cooling grain before storage.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: McCarthy, Stephen J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop Stamping Machine (open access)

Envelop Stamping Machine

Patent for an envelop stamping machine. This machine is designed to process sheets of stamps for the application of one stamp per envelope. Illustrations Included.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Human, Oscor M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Releaser. (open access)

Horse-Releaser.

Patent for a horse releaser, which has multiple sections and a section can be released to free the horse from the vehicle.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: White, Alton
System: The Portal to Texas History