Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful washing machine.
Date: April 19, 1898
Creator: Roach, Henry B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gun Attachment (open access)

Gun Attachment

Patent for improvement of a gun handle attachment to rifles and shotguns. It is intended to be applied to the barrels end for support and so the user has use of the elbow joint.
Date: January 2, 1906
Creator: Wight, Alfred T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner (open access)

Gin Saw Cleaner

Patent for a gin-saw cleaner. The invention "relates to gin-saw cleansers and tooth-straighteners, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which will be simple of construction, efficient in operation, and one in which the saw-engaging knives or members may be simultaneously adjusted to regulate them for operation upon saws which are spaced apart a greater or lesser distance" (lines 8-16) illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Stanifer, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Pen. (open access)

Fountain-Pen.

Patent for a fountain pen with an improved ink feeder.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Smith, Edward Ruthven
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Electric Car-Line. (open access)

Elevated Electric Car-Line.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in "elevated double-track electric car lines and car and electric-wire supports combined, including instructions and illustrations" (line 5 - 7).
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Cooley, Joe H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fountain Drafting-Pen. (open access)

Fountain Drafting-Pen.

Patent for a fountain drafting pen, which has a rubber handle that when flexed sends out the pen tip with ink, and and when flexed again takes the point back into the ink reservoir in the handle.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Smith, Edward Ruthven
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drinking Fountain (open access)

Drinking Fountain

Patent for a drinking fountain. "The object of the invention is to provide a drinking fountain having a drinking trough to which water will be automatically supplied as the same is removed by the stock." Illustration included.
Date: August 15, 1905
Creator: McCormick, James V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributer. (open access)

Fertilizer-Distributer.

Patent for a new and useful fertilizer distributer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Rainey, Equieller Brooks
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Receptacle or Tank. (open access)

Receptacle or Tank.

Patent for receptacle or tank for underground storage purpose is to use metal to construct a tank for strength to resist the pressure upon its walls. To protect the tank from the corrosive action of the earth by lining the surface of a tank “with a protective coating composed of alternate layers of asphaltum and tarred-felt paper, a fabric layer imposed upon the outer layer of asphaltum, and a final layer of asphaltum covering the fabric.” (Page 2, lines 109-113.) Illustration is included.
Date: April 15, 1902
Creator: Stewart, Robert P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-holder. (open access)

Rein-holder.

Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date: March 5, 1901
Creator: Campbell, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter (open access)

Seed-Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Williams, Paul Eaton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Soot Arrester for Stacks (open access)

Smoke and Soot Arrester for Stacks

Patent for a smoke and soot arrester that may be used to contain products of combustion from smoke stacks or chimneys. Illustrations included.
Date: May 5, 1908
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke Consumer (open access)

Smoke Consumer

Patent for smoke consumers. Illustrations included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Thimble. (open access)

Stovepipe-Thimble.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stovepipe thimbles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1899
Creator: Linch, Frank S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper. (open access)

Scraper.

Patent for an adjustable road and ditch building scraper.
Date: September 29, 1908
Creator: Edzards, Harm Uden
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Tent. (open access)

Folding Tent.

Patent for a foldable two story tent with a sleeping compartment in the upper story.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension Car-Step (open access)

Extension Car-Step

Patent for an extension car step. Illustrations included.
Date: August 20, 1907
Creator: Cameron, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bed (open access)

Folding Bed

Patent for a folding bed. Illustration included.
Date: September 11, 1906
Creator: Henkel, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Flue. (open access)

Fireproof Flue.

Patent for a fireproof flue that prevents the roof from being burned, where the stovepipe goes through the roof.
Date: April 25, 1911
Creator: Davis, George W. & Shipman, Abraham T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner (open access)

Oil-Burner

Patent for an oil burner that can be used with stoves. Illustrations included.
Date: October 15, 1912
Creator: Davis, William R. & Wright, Rohen U.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle. (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for a specification to improve the design and function non-refillable bottles.
Date: July 24, 1900
Creator: Bonner, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-refillable bottle. (open access)

Non-refillable bottle.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles" (line 5). "This invention relates to non-refillable bottles, and more particularly to mean sfor admitting air to such bottles, in connection with a valve-stopper for preventing the introduction of liquid into the bottle after the stopper has been placed in position." (lines 9-10)
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle. (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for a non-refillable bottle. The invention "relates to bottles in general, and more particularly to that class known as "non-refillable" bottles, and has for its object to provide a cheap and simple device of this nature that when once emptied cannot be refilled either by floating, by exhausting the air therefrom, or by pouring thereinto" (lines 11-17). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Bogue, Robert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Loading and Unloading Cars (open access)

Means for Loading and Unloading Cars

Patent for means for loading and unloaded railroad cars. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1907
Creator: Kimerer, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History