Ventilator and Mirror-Protector. (open access)

Ventilator and Mirror-Protector.

Patent for improvements in ventilators and mirror-protectors is to “arranging pendent streamers and a rotatable fan near a mirror that the means for actuating the fan will serve to agitate the streamers for the chasing of flies from the mirror and also ventilate and cool a room by the current of wind produced by the fan.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: McBride, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock (open access)

Nut-Lock

Patent for "a simple and inexpensive article which will securely hold a nut in place upon a bolt and form a yielding support beneath the same" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Price, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History