Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase (open access)

Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase

Patent for combined compositor's stick and type chase. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake (open access)

Air-Brake

Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster-Wheel (open access)

Caster-Wheel

Patent for a new and useful caster wheel with illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a combination lock that is able to be changed at will due to its arrangement of parts.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type (open access)

Type

Patent for type. This inventions is for the body of type used in printing presses. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Holder (open access)

Type-Holder

Patent for a device to hold type, so it can set and be delivered.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Building Concrete Walls. (open access)

Mold for Building Concrete Walls.

Patent for a mold to be used in the construction of concrete walls, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and feeder. It is designed with an intermediate of a chute and cotton-gin to feed the cotton to the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Seward, Marion F. & Seward, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive car-coupling that improves on the pin-and-link car-couplings and "will be capable of coupling automatically and which may be readily uncoupled without going between cars" (lines 13-15). After the car has been separated, this coupling automatically puts its parts in position to be re-coupled. It also enables a "flying kick" to be transmitted to the car.
Date: November 24, 1896
Creator: Lee, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History