Resource Type

Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Davenport, Robert L. & Rast, Felix Q.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Dam-Holder. (open access)

Dental Dam-Holder.

Patent for improvement in dental dam-holders.
Date: April 17, 1900
Creator: Myers, Samuel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Apparatus (open access)

Lubricating Apparatus

Patent for "lubricating the bearings of locomotives while moving or standing still." (lines 8-10)
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Dangler, Hank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c. (open access)

APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.

Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Butler, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows by employing moldboards on both left and right side of the plow; with a shoe or land slide fixed to the plow-beam extension. Then use a V-clamp to secure the plow-handles and a bracket to secure the moldboards and plow-point. This construction will allow free movement of the plow-point and moldboard up and down or vertically without lifting the shoe from the furrow. Illustration is included.
Date: December 25, 1900
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidery Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Embroidery Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for pressing device of sewing machine that will be in operative engagement with the needle to enable efficient stitching and embroidery work.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Moore, Franklin O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter (open access)

Cotton-Planter

Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvement in plows by first connecting a furrow-shoe to the moldboard, and second, by provide means for operating the plow-point to make a deep or shallow furrow and for raising and lowering covering-plows simultaneously when the plow is in operation. (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Morrison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Exterminating Johnson Grass. (open access)

Method of Exterminating Johnson Grass.

Patent for a method to kill Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense) by repeatedly breaking up the ground around the plant during winter.
Date: July 16, 1901
Creator: Harpold, Clay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting Dental Plates. (open access)

Casting Dental Plates.

Patent for casting dental plates which builds upon a previous patent by the same inventor, Patent No. 633,222, accepted on September 19, 1899. This patent professes to eliminate previous issues with casting metal such as pinholes and air bubbles that create imperfections in the dental plates.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Streetman, Willard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Apparatus. (open access)

Pumping Apparatus.

Patent for a "pumping, or water-elevating apparatus," (line 9) including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Simmons, Jesse W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grave Filler. (open access)

Grave Filler.

Patent for a grave-filling machine, which transports dirt into the hole of the grave.
Date: August 19, 1902
Creator: Deering, Uriah H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Stanton, James Robertson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for oil-burner that is used by being connected to a steam-boiler. It is simply constructed to produce a very high degree of heat with a comparatively small amount of hydrocarbon oil.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Jenkins, Wellington S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Granbury Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1903
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for cultivator attachment that is useful in breaking up the soil at opposite side of the plants and leveling the ground between the rows. It can be adjusted to any desired angle (vertical, horizontal) or level (up and down).
Date: January 6, 1903
Creator: Brewer, John Meed
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Guide (open access)

Rein-Guide

Patent for rein guides to support a harness and guide horses. The device yields little space during storage and transportation.
Date: January 13, 1903
Creator: Johnston, Nathan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Apparatus. (open access)

Pumping Apparatus.

Patent for improvements to a pumping apparatus "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-operated apparatus through the medium of which water may be forced from a well, stream, or other source of supply by the weight of a person" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Jessie W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Mold. (open access)

Dental Mold.

Patent for dental mold, it is an improvement on patent no. 700855, by the same inventor. The improvement was to have open sides and large exit at the bottom of the lower neck of the mold, and a flask having a wide inlet in order to keep the molten metal from contact with the metal of the mold to avoid being suddenly cooled. (Lines 19-23) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Streetman, Willard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack (open access)

Display-Rack

Patent for a display rack.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Wilbanks, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bailing Press (open access)

Bailing Press

Patent for a baling press. This invention combines a truck and horse that facilitates the pressing of hay.
Date: June 30, 1903
Creator: Moore, James Solomon; Adams, Barnett V.; Roy, Ransom J. & Jack, I. Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Word Counting Attachment for Type Writers (open access)

Word Counting Attachment for Type Writers

Patent for a word counting attachment for type writers.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Coleman, James G. & Wilhite, Luther
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner. This invention is designed to not allow air in the burner proper except at the point of combustion. Illustration included.
Date: December 20, 1902
Creator: Murphy, Alfonso F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. This cattle guard is a useful improvement in use on railway-tracks.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Frownfelter, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History