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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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