Carrier-Frame for Baskets. (open access)

Carrier-Frame for Baskets.

Patent for a carrier frame for moving baskets up and down in a store, which does not get tangled with the basket ropes.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cameron. James H.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke (open access)

Animal-Poke

Patent for an animal poke worn on the head of cattle to prevent jumping outside the field which allows the cow to graze freely while wearing the poke.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Seay, Mark Machel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter. Illustration included.
Date: September 13, 1904
Creator: Martin, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. This invention consists of a vertically disposed rotatable dasher. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Lavender, Samuel C.; Chennault, Steven A. & Chennault, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle (open access)

Bottle

Patent for a a nursing bottle employing a jacket designed to hold the parts of the bottle together. Illustration included.
Date: September 18, 1906
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a device that would make coupling cars together easier and safer. Cars would be able to be coupled automatically, and then detached without having to go in between them. Includes Illustrations.
Date: February 12, 1901
Creator: White, George O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder (open access)

Clothes-Pounder

Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustrations included.
Date: October 5, 1909
Creator: Van Landingham, Lewis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for improvements in bale-ties is to produce a “buckle-plate having a middle portion with an opening therein, arms at each end separated from the middle portion by spaces open at one side, a longitudinal entering-passage connecting the opening with one of said spaces, and a hoop the free ends of which are looped down through said opening and up through the spaces, resting upon the arms under the standing part of the hoop.” (Lines 74-83) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Johnson, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Water Heater and Smoke Consumer (open access)

Combined Water Heater and Smoke Consumer

Patent for a combined water heater and smoke consumer. Illustration included.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas; Rodgers, A. N. & Wade, James William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Stone, John Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fly Fish Hook (open access)

Artificial Fly Fish Hook

Patent for an artificial fly fish hook. Illustration included.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Vent (open access)

Bottle-Vent

Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Water-Heater and Smoke-Consumer (open access)

Auxiliary Water-Heater and Smoke-Consumer

Patent for a water heater which connects to the furnace and uses the smoke and gases passing through it to heat the water in the water heater.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Miles,Joseph Furnas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Holder (open access)

Bag-Holder

Patent for bag holder that is adapted to receive and hold bags of any size in a way that is convenient for removal as needed.
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Nosker, Orren G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Brake Lock (open access)

Air Brake Lock

Patent for an air brake lock. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1905
Creator: Mabry, Davis L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chainless Bicycle. (open access)

Chainless Bicycle.

Patent for a new and useful chainless bicycle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1900
Creator: Baker, Erle K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Computing Yardstick (open access)

Computing Yardstick

Patent for an attachment to yardsticks in order to compute correct measurements. Illustration included.
Date: March 29, 1904
Creator: Cogburn, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater (open access)

Water-Heater

Patent for a water heater which operates by connecting to the smoke stack of a furnace. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Perforating Checks And Printing Thereon (open access)

Machine For Perforating Checks And Printing Thereon

Patent for a machine for perforating checks and printing on said check. The printing application of the press represents dollar amounts rendering it impossible to change the type. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1903
Creator: Robertson, George Francis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ligthtning-Arrester. (open access)

Ligthtning-Arrester.

Patent for improving lightning arresters, an invention used to distribute electrical current over a large area and ground it at a different points should a building be struck by lightning.
Date: June 15, 1901
Creator: Wood, William D.; Roach, Henry B. & Pots, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for vehicle-wheels that "automatically" expand and contract (lines 8-10); including illustration and instructions
Date: April 24, 1900
Creator: Mabry, D. L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Voting-Machine (open access)

Voting-Machine

Patent for a voting machine whereby voters register their votes by pushing a button. Illustrations included.
Date: September 15, 1908
Creator: McClain, Eli
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap. (open access)

Insect-Trap.

Patent for new and useful improvements in insect-traps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1900
Creator: Boyd, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History