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
Buggy-Spindle (open access)

Buggy-Spindle

Patent for a buggy spindle for "taking up lost motion in the axle box should it be too short or too worn" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait (open access)

Artificial Bait

Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane that uses centrifugal blowers to ensure a safe and practicable flight. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Judson, Fred I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Structure (open access)

Building Structure

Patent for a building support structure for bridges, buildings, dams, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Morton, Milo A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Bottle-Washing Machine (open access)

Bottle-Washing Machine

Patent for a machine that washes bottles. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Greer, Jesse Wade
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bling Tenon (open access)

Bling Tenon

Patent for a metallic blind tenon. The end of a blind slat to pivot the slat in the frame of the blind. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: Miller, Charles, of Del Rio, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Truck. (open access)

Car-Truck.

Patent for a car truck for use on trains, which can withstand heavy loads and high speeds.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Protector (open access)

Breech-Protector

Patent for a breech protector for guns which protects exposed parts of the gun and the hands of the person handling it. Illustrations included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Hann, Edmund Lyne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Implement. (open access)

Compound Implement.

Patent for a compound tool for building and repairing fences, which combines a post hole digger and a wire stretcher.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Haynes, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Street Car Sign (open access)

Advertising Street Car Sign

Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: King, Alphonse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combintion Tool (open access)

Combintion Tool

Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Burris, William S. & Harris, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp (open access)

Bedclothes-Clamp

Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Martin, Delia
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader (open access)

Bur-Cotton Thresher, Cleaner and Storage Unloader

Patent for a pneumatic cotton thresher, cleaner, and storage unloader for use in cotton gins.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Lamb, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rubber Dam and Tooth Backing Punch (open access)

Combined Rubber Dam and Tooth Backing Punch

Patent for a combined rubber dam and tooth-backing punch. "This invention relates to new and useful improvement in dental instruments and more particularly it has references to a punch for forming holes accurately in the backing which is used on teeth in construction of bridges, plates, and cognate work" (line 12-17). Illustration included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Bell, Harry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Stay Bolt (open access)

Boiler Stay Bolt

Patent for a boiler stay bolt. This design is made of flexible stay-bolts for boiler allowing for movement bracing sheets. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Borneman, Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Filling-Machine (open access)

Automatic Filling-Machine

Patent for a filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capsule Filler (open access)

Capsule Filler

Patent for a device that fills capsules with medicine. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Brown, Patrick Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Mover (open access)

Car-Mover

Patent for a car mover designed to move train cars along the tracks and sidings. Illustrations included.
Date: June 30, 1908
Creator: Peek, Joseph S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt (open access)

Belt

Patent for an apparel belt. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: Reynolds, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for treating lint cotton as it passes from the gin for bleaching. Illustration included.
Date: February 25, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton

Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History