Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Harrington, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Urn (open access)

Coffee Urn

Patent for a coffee urn. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Peterman, Bert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material (open access)

Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material

Patent for a device to remove foreign particles during the processing of cotton. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick Bennard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe (open access)

Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe

Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Wiggins, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter. (open access)

Combined Cotton Seed and Corn Planter.

Patent for a new and improved combined cotton seed and corn planter. This design is especially "for seeding cotton; but the machine is converted into a corn-planter by detaching the bottom of the hopper, removing the space-block, disconnecting the pitman, and then removing the slide, and substituting in lieu thereof a device composed of a bottom, having a seed-opening, and a bridge-form metallic striker, arranged across the same, and a dropper-slide, having dropper holes" (lines 95-2).
Date: March 22, 1881
Creator: Evans, William V. & Moore, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Continuous Pipe. (open access)

Machine for Forming Continuous Pipe.

Patent for a machine for forming continuous concrete pipe with perforations at set intervals for water to escape from for irrigation purposes.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Wiggins, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History