Heading Holder Attachment for Type Writers (open access)

Heading Holder Attachment for Type Writers

Patent for a head holder attachment for type writers. This invention is for the purpose to make a removable attachment that holds prearranged headings.
Date: September 22, 1903
Creator: Ambrose, Jennings Grant
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner for Heating Purposes (open access)

Oil Burner for Heating Purposes

Patent for an oil burner for heating purposes. This is an improvement for the burning of liquid and gaseous fuel burners.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Anderson, George S. & Jevons, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post-Protector (open access)

Post-Protector

Patent for Post Protector. This patent is about providing a better means to protect earth embedded structure from moisture and other corrosion materials so that life of earthed structure increases
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for a railroad tie that locks against cross-plates to stay secure.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie (open access)

Railway Tie

Patent for a railway tie designed to to provide a metallic tie which is light strong, and durable (line 16-17) illustration included.
Date: June 30, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Sash. (open access)

Window Sash.

Patent for an improvement on window sashes allowing for easily removable window panes. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post. (open access)

Fence-Post.

Patent for "improvements in fence or other posts and bases thereof, and especially telegraph and telephone posts" (lines 13-15). The design involves "a minimum amount of lumber" and "a maximum amount of strength" (lines 17-19). It claims further benefits, such as "preventing early decay" (lines 22-23) allowing "perfect drainage" (lines 25-26), and facilitating the re-use of old posts.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John & Beazley, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press For Ribbons, &c (open access)

Press For Ribbons, &c

Patent for a press for ribbons. This invention is for a press that smooths the wrinkles out of ribbon, lace, and other items such as neckties. Illustration included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Fuqua, William Yancey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Converting Motion (open access)

Mechanism for Converting Motion

Patent for mechanism for converting motion. "The present invention relates to mechanism for converting reciprocatory into rotary motion; and the objects are to provide a practical apparatus of this character in which rotary motion may be imparted to a driven member without occasioning any dead-centers and to provide simple means reversing the direction of motion of the driven member" (line 10-19). Illustrations included.
Date: October 6, 1903
Creator: Griffin, George L.; Griffin, Robert Alonzo; Griffin, Chelsea Beach & Griffin, Herbert Elvia
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double Acting Pump (open access)

Double Acting Pump

Patent for a double action pump. "This invention relates to improvements in double-acting pumps; and its object is to provide a vertical double-acting pump in which provision is made for automatically exhausting the air from the upper portion of the piston-chamber" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Hall, S. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Mechanism for Tanks. (open access)

Cleaning Mechanism for Tanks.

Patent for Cleaning Mechanism for Tanks.
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Hogg, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage (open access)

Gage

Patent for a gage in use with locomotive driving wheels of the axles, bushings, brasses, crank-pins, and wheel parts. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Melvin, Josiah W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cinder-Guard (open access)

Cinder-Guard

Patent for cinder guard.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese & Tuggle, Samuel Ritchie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Tightener. (open access)

Band-Tightener.

Patent for a lever used to tighten the bands on bales of cotton or other materials, including illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Mullane, Dennis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Cleaning Ginned Cotton (open access)

Method of Cleaning Ginned Cotton

Patent that "is in a ready, simple, thoroughly feasible, and practical manner to clean ginned cotton while passing from the gin to the condenser and to eliminate therefrom all objectionable matter." (line 10-14)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer. (open access)

Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer.

Patent for "an improvement in pneumatic cotton-conveyers, particularly with relation to means for putting the exhaust-pipe which leads to the elevator in communication with either of a series of intake-pipes at will and for relieving the partial vacuum caused by the operation of the exhaust-fan at will." (lines 8-14)
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Richmond, George Eustace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Nailing Brick (open access)

Fireproof Nailing Brick

Patent for a fireproof nailing brick. This invention replaces wooden plugs used for the purposes of enabling interior woodwork by using a fireproof brick or block of a porous nature.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Taylor, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jack (open access)

Jack

Patent for a Jack. This design is operated by fluid pressure for use with driving axles and wheels.
Date: June 30, 1903
Creator: Tuggle, Samuel Ritchie & Doering, Charles William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner and "it has for its special object to provide a burner of this class which shall be especially adapted for the consumption of crude oil." (line 9-12)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: de Latimer, Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History