Wire-Splicer. (open access)

Wire-Splicer.

Patent for a wire splicer, or a device that connects distinct wires by looping them together. Illustrations included.
Date: September 30, 1912
Creator: Martin, Enoch
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Submerged Double-Acting Pump. (open access)

Submerged Double-Acting Pump.

Patent for a submerged double acting pump, which has a continuous flow of water.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Morris, Andrew P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pump to be used for pumping oil and water including instructions.
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Stukes, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Strainer. (open access)

Pump-Strainer.

Patent for a pump strainer for liquid wells that excludes sand and other foreign matter before it can foul the pump or wear its parts.
Date: November 13, 1900
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Stove (open access)

Oil Stove

Patent for an oil stove. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Young, James W. & McGee, Guy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Drum. (open access)

Stovepipe-Drum.

Patent for a stovepipe drum that is easily cleaned and temperature regulated.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Pasche, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flat Iron Heater (open access)

Flat Iron Heater

Patent for "a receptacle insertible within a stove opening in which the irons to be heated are placed" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Martin, Enoch
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sad-Iron Heater. (open access)

Sad-Iron Heater.

Patent for a portable device for heating sad-irons (as well as other heaters) with a small oil tank for a burners and a cover. The device will regulate the amount of oil and provide coverage that will maintain the high temperature of the sad-iron.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Beck, Joseph P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sediment-Collector for Coffee-Pots, &c. (open access)

Sediment-Collector for Coffee-Pots, &c.

Patent for a device that collects sediments from coffee grounds and tea leaves inside the coffee or tea pot. Includes Illustration.
Date: September 10, 1901
Creator: Martin, Percy P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Section-Harrow. (open access)

Section-Harrow.

Patent for "a section harrow that may be readily attached to an ordinary planter, cultivator or other farm implement, and which will include a considerable number of harrow sections, alined transversely of the direction of travel, so that the implement will be adapted to harrow a field in a comparatively short time" (lines 11-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Harlin, Harry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe Water-Heater (open access)

Stovepipe Water-Heater

Patent for a stovepipe water heater. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Garrard, Willey G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Powder-Duster. (open access)

Powder-Duster.

Patent for a insecticide powder duster that ejects the powder onto plants.
Date: April 25, 1911
Creator: McKnight, Walter H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Acting Pump (open access)

Double-Acting Pump

Patent for new and useful improvement in double-acting pumps for those "deep-well double-acting pumps in which as single cylinder and piston are used" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Stuckes, John M. & Smith, Earnest K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound. (open access)

Egg-Preserving Compound.

Patent for a compound of cotton-seed oil, beeswax, paraffin, and salicylic acid that was meant to preserve eggs by sealing their pores.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for improvements in cultivator attachments that is meant to improve the means whereby weeds or the like at the opposite sides of a row of plants may be effectively and conveniently removed. It also is an improved means whereby the soil at opposite sides of a row of plants may be subjected to the action of harrows in order to materially facilitate cultivation.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Capps, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester (open access)

Cotton-Harvester

Patent for a cotton harvester. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Sewell, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment "of a plurality of cutter blades which are adapted to be adjustably secured to the supporting frame of a cultivator in such a manner as to efficiently cut the weeds and dig into the soil without injuring the plants which may pass therebetween" (lines 12-17), including illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Doak, Clifton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History