Check-Line Buckle. (open access)

Check-Line Buckle.

Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Snell, David C. F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Binder. (open access)

Binder.

Patent for improvements in binders in which it can “securely bind and retain a number of loose leaves, the structure of such binder enabling it to be readily attached to and removed from the packet of leaves.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Montgomery, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet (open access)

Cabinet

Patent for a cabinet which acts as a receptacle for money. Dollars and coins may be sorted using the tray mounted within the cabinet.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Ferris, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brick Truck (open access)

Brick Truck

Patent for a truck that is designed to make the transportation of bricks easier as well as the transportation of other materials.
Date: September 22, 1905
Creator: Sacks, Martin Kuno
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
CONVERTIBLE CAR. (open access)

CONVERTIBLE CAR.

Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Cothern, John K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1902
Creator: St. James, Henry Livingston
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Byars, Edgar.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Tramper (open access)

Automatic Cotton-Tramper

Patent for an automatics cotton presser. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Campbell, Edgar Howard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear (open access)

Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear

Patent for
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Bassett, Lawrence Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Bed (open access)

Convertible Bed

Patent for a bed that can be converted from a sideboard or a table. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Bowdon, Viola G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Atkinson, Joseph J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.

Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Killing Grass (open access)

Composition for Killing Grass

Patent for an improved chemical designed to kill grass, weeds and other undesirable plants. It can sprayed or sprinkled on the plants and within twenty minutes the grass or weeds will start to die even within the roots themselvs.
Date: May 22, 1906
Creator: Hulsey, Charley Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus. (open access)

Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Patent for a rotary expansion bit for use with well-drilling apparatuses. The bit can be adjusted without removing the well tubing, and can drill a hole large than the tubing in order to insert casing sections.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Sloan, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Grinder (open access)

Corn-Grinder

Patent for a grinder of ordinary corn
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Zimmerman, Frank W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Stone, John Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: French, Alfonso Claude
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1901
Creator: Wilson, H.T.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book or Music Leaf Turner. (open access)

Book or Music Leaf Turner.

Patent for a music page turner, which can be operated by a lever or foot pedal.
Date: October 22, 1907
Creator: Alrich, Henry
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for an improved bailing-press.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Atkinson, Joseph J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History