Resource Type

Band-Cutter and Feeder (open access)

Band-Cutter and Feeder

Patent for a band cutter and feeder which cuts the bands that tie bundles of grain and feeds the grain into a threshing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: Richmond, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Valve (open access)

Check-Valve

Patent for a valve used for well drilling designed to be confine fluid around the pipe. Illustrations included.
Date: September 28, 1909
Creator: Kreiter, Richard F.
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake-Staff. (open access)

Brake-Staff.

Patent for a new type of brake staff for trains featuring a modular design allowing its form to be changed as necessary. This is useful for connecting train cars where regular brake staffs may get in the way. Including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Clark, James Thomas & Meyer, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Type-Writing Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Type-Writing Machines.

Patent for a new and useful attachment for type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Pribyl, Frank G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Engine (open access)

Compressed-Air Engine

Patent for a compressed air engine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Murray, Dick H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes (open access)

Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes

Patent for "a means whereby with one motion a stamp will be supplied from the'apparatus, moistened, and placed in position upon a letter, wrapper, or parcel adapted to receive it, and wherein a number of stamps may be consecutively placed when and as desired" (lines 10-15).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Soap. (open access)

Apparatus for Making Soap.

Patent for a new and improved soap-making machine. This design "consist[s] of grease and soda tanks, the latter tank having a diaphragm . . . a register-tank, pipes leading from said grease and soda tanks to said register-tank, a pivoted converter, a rotary shaft in said converter and blades, a shaft journaled in uprights attached to said converter and provided with a crank and a bevel wheel, the latter gearing with a bevel-wheel on said rotary shaft in the converter, and removable furnaces for said grease tank and converter" (lines 21-32).
Date: September 20, 1887
Creator: Grant, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Retailing Shot. (open access)

Apparatus for Retailing Shot.

Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Stokes, Micajah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Bale Ties (open access)

Cotton - Bale Ties

Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Szabo, Alexander A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amalgamator. (open access)

Amalgamator.

Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up through them" (lines 14-24).
Date: September 12, 1882
Creator: Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Rocking-Chairs (open access)

Attachment for Rocking-Chairs

Patent for attachments for rocking chairs such as a rotary fan and platform for the rockers of the chair among other items including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Ryan, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Levee. (open access)

Levee.

Patent for reinforced levees with "means whereby the water will be positively prevented from seeping therethrough and weakening the levee" (lines 14-16).
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Beazley, John Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Device. (open access)

Alarm Device.

Patent for an alarm device "to be used in connection with a boiler and operatively connected with the steam whistle, whereby when the water falls below a certain level in the boiler the mechanism will automatically operate to blow the whistle" (lines 11-16). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Priester, Joel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Projectile (open access)

Aerial Projectile

Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date: September 25, 1918
Creator: Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Head (open access)

Casing-Head

Patent for a casing head that is specially adapted for "use in connection with well drilling for letting the tubing down into the bore, and in withdrawing the tubing from the bore." (Lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: McGarry, Henry S. & Carr, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Pipe Coupling (open access)

Automatic Pipe Coupling

Patent for improvement on the methods of controlling oil flow.
Date: September 2, 1919
Creator: Childs, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot. (open access)

Coffee Pot.

Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "tubes having their upper ends bent downward, a bridge or cross-piece connecting their upper ends, the suspending-rods depending from the bridge, the ring on the lower ends of the suspending-rods, the [other] ring, and the separate strainer held removably between the two said rings" (lines 84-90).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Lawrence, Joseph Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book with Removable Cover (open access)

Book with Removable Cover

Patent for a removable cover for a pass book (a book where a customer's bank deposit account is kept). When a customer's pass book is filled the cover can be removed and refilled with a new pass book.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Malsch, Herman C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters. (open access)

Attachment for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters.

Patent for Improvements in Attachments for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters. The "explosive mixture entering the cylinders of the engine may be improved and in this way increase the efficiency of the engine" (lines 12-15).
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Atkinson, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life Raft. (open access)

Life Raft.

Patent for boat state rooms that convert into life rafts.
Date: September 9, 1884
Creator: Adams, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landing Device for Aeroplanes. (open access)

Landing Device for Aeroplanes.

Patent for improvements in landing devices for aeroplanes that can be controlled by the aviator and adjusted with the direction of the plane's movement as it lands.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Martin, Ernest L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Signal (open access)

Vehicle Signal

Patent for a vehicle signal. Intent of signal is to improve visibility of rear vehicle turn signals.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Rohde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer. (open access)

Well-Strainer.

Patent for improvements to well strainers. Plugs with slats are applied throughout the pipe, making the plugs stronger and capable of enduring more strain.
Date: September 28, 1915
Creator: McEvoy, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History