Cotton Bag Emptier (open access)

Cotton Bag Emptier

Patent for a portable derrick, that can be easily lifted and emptied.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Brown, Odis A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Lee, John Chester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner (open access)

Oil-Burner

Patent for improvement in oil burners. This device allows oil to be mixed with air to allow the substance to burn more effectively.
Date: January 30, 1912
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces
Date: January 30, 1912
Creator: Daniel, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher. (open access)

Horse-Detacher.

Patent for a new and useful horse detacher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1900
Creator: Powers, Homer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester (open access)

Cotton-Harvester

Patent for a cotton harvester that aides in picking the most difficult part of cotton to pick by hand. Includes instruction and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Ford, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Running Gear for Wagons. (open access)

Running Gear for Wagons.

Patent for a new and improved running-gear for wagons. This design consists "[i]n a running-gear for carriages and wagons, the combination, with the axle provided with the collars of the stationary and rotary disks, and interposed anti-friction rollers mounted on arms projecting from disks, which are mounted on bolts, constituting axles for the rotary disks and the horizontal wheels and in the boxes" (lines 10-17).
Date: January 30, 1883
Creator: Mackey, Thomas Bell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaker for Mixed Beverages. (open access)

Shaker for Mixed Beverages.

Patent for a new and improved shaker for mixed drinks. This design utilizes a spring and a hinge to enable a lid with holes for straining to be attached directly to the cocktail shaker. This eliminates the chance that the straining lid would not be at hand when mixing a drink as well as the chance of losing the straining lid.
Date: January 30, 1883
Creator: Murphy, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for certain new an useful improvements in acetylene gas apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1900
Creator: Ruthenberg, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Smart, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Stove Attachment (open access)

Cooking Stove Attachment

Patent for a cooking stove attachment. The attachment goes inside the oven of the cooking-stove to prevent food from being burned while cooking. Moisture is supplied to the oven to prevent blistering of bread while baking and improve the general baking and roasting qualities of the oven.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Green, G. F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Spicer, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History