Electric Conductor (open access)

Electric Conductor

Patent for electric conductor with switch cord and plug especially designed for use with multiple electrical circuits, as with a telephone switchboard.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Weir, Welby D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Kitts, William Caluway
System: The Portal to Texas History
Andiron. (open access)

Andiron.

Patent for improvement in andirons “which is so arranged as to permit ready access to the fireplace for the purpose of cleaning out the ashes and having a removable fender which is capable of being quickly and readily removed or placed in position to retain the fire and prevent the fire from rolling out the fireplace.” (Lines 47-54.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Cox, John Drew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap. (open access)

Fly-Trap.

Patent for a fly trap which consists of a motor powered turning cylinder coated in a sticky substance to attract flies, which is placed within a cage to catch flies scraped from the cylinder.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Richbourg, Joseph Fletcher
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow, which can cover two rows at a time and which can be used to put out insecticide in the fields.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Farrington, Johnathan W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Attachment For Pneumatic Conveyers (open access)

Feeding Attachment For Pneumatic Conveyers

Patent for a feeding attachment for pneumatic conveyers. Illustrations included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Sonendrinker, Edward Thomas & Coleman, Matthew Walton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate-Clamping Machine. (open access)

Crate-Clamping Machine.

Patent for "improvement in crate clamping machines" (line 10), holding end boards and partition of crates to enable crate assembly.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: C. T. Dickson; Dickson, C. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine (open access)

Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine

Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Cassel, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History