Rotary Tooth-Brush (open access)

Rotary Tooth-Brush

Patent for a crank powered rotary toothbrush. Designed with the purpose of easily cleaning teeth with a simple automatic mechanism, with added projection via a shield around the brush for protecting gums and cheeks from being scraped by the brush.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Abel, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan Quarterly Report: July - September 1976 (open access)

Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan Quarterly Report: July - September 1976

Quarterly report of the Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan in/near San Antonio, Texas describing the program's activities, contract status, finances, relationships with other agencies, and additional information for the third quarter of 1976.
Date: October 1976
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan Quarterly Report: July - September 1978 (open access)

Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan Quarterly Report: July - September 1978

Quarterly report of the Areawide Waste Treatment Management Plan in/near San Antonio, Texas describing the program's activities, contract status, finances, relationships with other agencies, and additional information for the third quarter of 1978.
Date: October 1978
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Region, Volume 15, Number 10, October/November 1988 (open access)

Region, Volume 15, Number 10, October/November 1988

Monthly newsletter of the Alamo Area Council of Governments describing news and events of relevance to the agencies.
Date: October 1988
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Driving Mechanism. (open access)

Automobile Driving Mechanism.

Patent for a driving mechanism for an automobile to dispense with the usual form of transmission gearing and differential, to substitute mechanisms power devices through the medium of a suitable liquid [preferably oil], maintained at a predetermined volume, and to provide a noiseless operating mechanism.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Allan, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel (open access)

Vehicle Wheel

Patent for improved wheel that utilizes spring components in order to disperse the weight of the vehicle evenly.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Allan, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turning The Young Chronic Into A Young Adult: A Model Of Treatment And Placement For The Young Adult Chronic (open access)

Turning The Young Chronic Into A Young Adult: A Model Of Treatment And Placement For The Young Adult Chronic

A report on a program that was started at the San Antonio State Hospital for young adults with severe chronic mental illness to help them to become as successful as possible.
Date: October 1, 1986
Creator: Allen, Pauline O. & Menchaca, Enrique S.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector (open access)

Tire-Protector

Patent for a lightweight protector for pneumatic tires, providing dust- and waterproofing, as well as providing protection from puncture.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Aue, Rudolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process for Extracting Honey. (open access)

Process for Extracting Honey.

Patent for a beehive and extraction process for honey, which does not destroy the wax cells the honey is stored in.
Date: October 6, 1908
Creator: Avant, Leonidas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Vehicles (open access)

Brake for Vehicles

Patent for "a brake which shall be easy in operation, cheap in construction, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 13-17).
Date: October 25, 1887
Creator: Bacon, Edward Hamlin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Furniture. (open access)

Convertible Furniture.

Patent for convertible furniture used in education. Features a table which can be easily converted from a flat desk, to an inclined black-board, and can store building blocks and similar items.
Date: October 3, 1916
Creator: Barler, Eugene M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boot (open access)

Boot

Patent for a boot design that contains a counter-support of coil springs while also being inexpensive, durable, and efficient.
Date: October 2, 1888
Creator: Benson, Henry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cylinder Head. (open access)

Cylinder Head.

Patent for improvement in removable cylinder heads for gas engines. Exhaust gasses and foreign matter pass through the conduits without affecting the valve stem.
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Bloomber, H. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing for Crank-Shafts. (open access)

Bearing for Crank-Shafts.

Patent for an improvement for Bearings for Cranks Shafts. This invention provides a means for "tightening the bushings of the bearings easily and quickly when necessary" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Blumberg, Hamilton G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Closet Flush. (open access)

Water-Closet Flush.

Patent for a siphon flushing apparatus for water-closets in which it will regulate the quantity of the water being discharged at each flushing; at the same time it can prevent water leakage. Illustration is included.
Date: October 16, 1900
Creator: Bowman, Jonathan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Film-Mask for Cameras (open access)

Film-Mask for Cameras

Patent for adjustable (improved) mask plate for different film widths (sizes) for cameras.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Burdette, Richard S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern. (open access)

Lantern.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in lanterns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: Cadwallader, Aldes H. & Carolan, Eugene P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Retainer or Dog (open access)

Cotton Retainer or Dog

Patent for improving a tool (dog) used in the operation of processing cotton bales. The (dog) tool does not require the replacement of other tools in cotton processing.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Cameron, Theodore R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet. (open access)

Cabinet.

Patent for a cabinet meant to contain "screws, bolts, rivets, and similar articles, and has for its object to provide a case for the storage of such articles by means of which the different articles are kept separate one from another, while at the same time ready access may be had to any one of the storage-compartments" (lines 9-15). It is circular and has a wheeled base.
Date: October 27, 1896
Creator: Caplinger, Joseph E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "a car-coupler which will be automatic in its operation in coupling the cars as they come together on the track, and at the same time to provide a positive uncoupling device which may be operated on any part of any of the cars, as well as by an engineer, when it is desired to uncouple the cars or a car from the engine" (lines 14-21).
Date: October 30, 1888
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P. & Lee, Patrick H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for a bedstead. Illustration included.
Date: October 31, 1905
Creator: Davis, Augustus H.; Hummel, George F. & Gray, J. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Bottle Cap. (open access)

Milk-Bottle Cap.

Patent for a new milk-bottle cap that provides closure for the mouth of milk bottles or jars which can be easily detached and cleaned.
Date: October 18, 1921
Creator: Davis, Ida
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lineman's Chair (open access)

Lineman's Chair

Patent for a chair which allows a lineman to connect cables and lines more easily. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Davis, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Suction and Force Pump (open access)

Air Suction and Force Pump

Patent for improvement in suction and force pumps, a pneumatic lift-and-force pump for raising water from wells.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: De Hymel, Franklin O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History