Protecting Shores. (open access)

Protecting Shores.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protections for river banks and coast washing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 27, 1898
Creator: Brooks, Samuel W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Drafting Rule (open access)

Elevated Drafting Rule

Patent for instrument used in drafting and ruling straight lines.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Anderson, Andrew E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tape-Measure. (open access)

Tape-Measure.

Patent for a tape measure with a claw on one end that the user can affix to a surface to hold one end of the measuring tape and aid in the measuring process.
Date: December 4, 1917
Creator: Anderson, Andrew E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Syringe. (open access)

Syringe.

Patent for a syringe that will inject or throw liquid and is piston-operated. "In its special organization the device is particularly adapted for males and treatment of diseases to which they are heir, and is light, neat, and compact, so as to be easily carried in the pocket" (lines 18-22).
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Putegnat, Joseph L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Pin. (open access)

Hair-Pin.

Patent for a hairpin which consists of multiple parts made to grip the hair while secured in place with illustrations included.
Date: July 22, 1913
Creator: Jacobsen, Herbert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geometrical Instrument (open access)

Geometrical Instrument

Patent for a geometrical instrument. This instrument is used to create a straight edge with pivoted blades, like a protractor, to be used for laying protracted angles, etc.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Anderson, Andrew E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Filling Tire (open access)

Self-Filling Tire

Patent for a product that automatically inflates automobile tires with the motion and weight of the moving vehicle, with the help of a piston that is not driven by springs.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Fernandez, Jose
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Handle. (open access)

Saw-Handle.

Patent for Saw-Handle that blows air out of its handle to clear the saw's teeth of dust.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Whitworth, John Luther
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Billiard-Cushions. (open access)

Improvement in Billiard-Cushions.

Patent for improvement in billiard-cushions. Patent for removable billiard table cushion.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Mansur, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Handle-Securing Device. (open access)

Handle-Securing Device.

Patent for a new and improved mechanism for simply and easily "securing handles on hoes, mattocks, picks, and other implements of the kind in which the handle has an enlarged end where it passes through and sets in the eye of the tool" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Harvey, Harry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Transplanter (open access)

Hand-Transplanter

Patent for a "manually operated device, adapted for the manipulation of small plants, during the transplanting of the same, and the thinning out of closely growing plants" (lines 9-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Thompson, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant Setter (open access)

Plant Setter

Patent for plant setter. Illustration included.
Date: October 25, 1910
Creator: Kleeberger, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pendant for Stem-Winding Watches. (open access)

Pendant for Stem-Winding Watches.

Patent for a "pendant for a watch which can be turned in every direction and can be screwed into the watch-case" (lines 8-10), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1880
Creator: Rossetti, John Theodore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Texas] Typical Curves of Precipitation

Series of three graphs demarcating the average rainfall per month for specific Texas cities across different regions of the state. Some lines are marked in red to distinguish individual points.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Technical Drawing
System: The Portal to Texas History
Demountable-Rim-Fasting Means. (open access)

Demountable-Rim-Fasting Means.

Patent for Improvement to Demoutable-Rim-Fastening Means. This device will hold the rim in place.
Date: July 20, 1920
Creator: Spero, David Lawrence
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History