Car Truck Bolster (open access)

Car Truck Bolster

Patent for a car-truck bolster. The design improves upon existing versions to bolster a car or truck in order to readily makes repairs in a simple and expeditious manner. The bolster can be taken apart which allows for each part to be replaced separately.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Fowler, T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Spicer, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Stove Attachment (open access)

Cooking Stove Attachment

Patent for a cooking stove attachment. The attachment goes inside the oven of the cooking-stove to prevent food from being burned while cooking. Moisture is supplied to the oven to prevent blistering of bread while baking and improve the general baking and roasting qualities of the oven.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Green, G. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Corder. (open access)

Trunk-Corder.

Patent for "Improvement in Trunk-Corders." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Kessee, Walter Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truss Bridge (open access)

Truss Bridge

Patent for a truss bridge. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Inman, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap (open access)

Trap

Patent for an animal trap and is spring actuated. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Sandefur, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Jack. (open access)

Pump-Jack.

Patent for an improved version of "operating pumps and similar apparatus" (lines 8-9).
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: York, Francis M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method Of Drilling Wells (open access)

Method Of Drilling Wells

Patent for a method of drilling wells. This invention is known as the rotary process that deals with alluvial deposits at different levels such as sand, water flows, gravel, gas under pressure, and boulders. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch For Street-Railways. (open access)

Electric Switch For Street-Railways.

Patent for an electric switch for street railways. This invention allows for the operation of switches of the track from the car, so the operator can turn the switches without stopping the car.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Posey, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reed-Organ. (open access)

Reed-Organ.

Patent for a cheap and simple reed-board that provides a uniform tone that is produced through the register or registers and allows the freedom of communication between the reed-cells and pipe or resonance cells.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Preston, Percy C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Motor (open access)

Rotary Motor

Patent for a rotary motor. Illustrations included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Atkins, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for an Embroidering Attachment for Sewing Machines that permits the movement of the material in any direction in order to improve embroidery designing.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Jacobs, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for an improved plow that holds steady in different kinds of soil and under different operating conditions. The inclination of the share can be adjusted whenever necessary.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Huckabee, Jefferson E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Light Hanger (open access)

Electric Light Hanger

Patent for an electric light hanger. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Carter, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Illuminated Sign and Operating Means Therefor (open access)

Illuminated Sign and Operating Means Therefor

Patent for an illuminated sign and how to operating means. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Dunkle, George Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutter Head (open access)

Cutter Head

Patent for a cutter head. This invention is used for shaping and dressing jambs. Illustrations included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Heckel, Albert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Feeder

Patent for an invention to feed cotton into a cleaner. Illustrations included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Crawford, Charles William
System: The Portal to Texas History