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Refrigerator-Door.
Patent for individual doors for compartments within a refrigerator, to protect items from being exposed to warm air when the refrigerator door is ajar. This patent also provides for the ability to apply doors as attachments to refrigerators without pre-installed compartment doors.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Jurek, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book-Cover
Patent for a book cover that can be adjusted to fit any book size.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Toland, Thomas L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Bed.
Patent for Automobile-Bed which creates a bed space in the back of automobiles for users to comfortably sleep on roll-out mattresses in their vehicles.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
John S. Turner
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock and Key.
Patent for a lock which requires a key that is adjustable and difficult to duplicate in order to prevent lock picking.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Dove, Bascom A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Grading Apparatus.
Patent for a vegetable grading apparatus that delivers select grades of vegetables to the picker, separating the majority of vegetables into containers. The apparatus prevents bruising of vegetables and allows the picker to see all sides of the vegetables.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Rigney, Samuel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for the Utilization of Heat in Oil-Engines.
Patent for an invention that improves the utilization of waste or surplus heat of internal combustion engines, specifically oil-burning engines of the Diesel type. This invention will assist diesel engines to run satisfactorily on lower or heavier-grade engine oils. This assists in the efficiency and production of Diesel engines.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Lucke, Herbert R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather-Strip.
Patent for an improved door weather strip and stop. The device atuates to be both a door stop and a weather strip.
Date:
May 28, 1919
Creator:
Campbell, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilated Body-Garment.
Patent for new ventilated body-garments "known as union-oversuits or "unionalls"" (lines 15-16) which improves the shoulder coverings and open armpit areas, allowing the passage of air but covering the area from rain.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Jenkins, William M. & Vaughan, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Confections.
Patent for a novelty method of packaging confections and similar snacks in an edible packaging resembling a baseball.
Date:
July 28, 1919
Creator:
Cressey, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Signal
Patent for automatic railroad signals that emit sound and lights.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Harrell, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Hairbrush
Patent for an improved electric hairbrush having an insulated electrical heating element and separately charged electrically conductive metallic bristles. The hairbrush is designed to straighten hair and/or to electrically treat a user's hair and scalp with a low-voltage current. A device in the handle allows the user to regulate the heating of the element.
Date:
November 28, 1922
Creator:
Harvey, Birdie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curing-House.
Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Fifth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2018
Annual financial report of the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals Agency 225 documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2018.
Date:
September 28, 2018
Creator:
Texas. Court of Appeals (5th)
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders
Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat.
Patent for an improved and automatic thermostat tool to regulate temperature including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Royall, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Cleaner and Distributor
Patent for seed cotton cleaner and distributor, important for its ability to raise cotton plants into the air and clean them as they are fed into receptacles.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Waist Adjuster.
Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hurst, Albert K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book.
Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date:
August 28, 1917
Creator:
Exline, Marcus, P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis
Patent for "improvements in clevises or draw-bars for plows and other similar implements" (Lines 8 – 10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hendon, Walter Preston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy
Patent for an invention that relates to certain improvements in carriage-covers; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the frame and cover and the manner of operating the same; and the object of the invention is to produce a cover for the protection of carriages while standing idle (Winants, 1902).
Date:
September 28, 1899
Creator:
Winants, Frank C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil
Patent for a process to refine oil, specifically crude, cotton-seed oil, using caustic soda. Includes an explanation of how the process works.
Date:
November 28, 1911
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Gear
Patent for a valve gear. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
McCain, Sidney Lea
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe.
Patent for a nailless horseshoe made of adjustable metallic straps, including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hughes, John V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History