Clothes Pounder. (open access)

Clothes Pounder.

Patent for a new and improved clothes pounder. This design "consist[s] of an outer cone with openings and socket near its upper end, a plurality of smaller cones with open bottoms within the outer cone and having their upper ends secured to the bottom of the said socket of the larger cone, and a conical guard around the upper end of the outer cone and extended below said openings independent of the outer cone and terminating in a vertical depending flange at a distance from the said outer cone" (lines 77-87).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Davis, Jordan G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Cooling System (open access)

Automobile-Cooling System

Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner (open access)

Liquid-Fuel Burner

Patent for an adaptation of burners to use semi-viscous liquids "such as, crude oil, coal or gas tar, and the like" (pg 1, 7-8).
Date: June 3, 1913
Creator: Hannah, Robert L. & Hannah, Homer R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton. (open access)

Process of Baling Cotton.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in processes of baling cotton.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Handling Apparatus. (open access)

Pneumatic Cotton-Handling Apparatus.

Patent for a pneumatic cotton-handling apparatus in which it can “unloading cotton simultaneously from two wagons and for conveying the cotton from one wagon to a storage place and from the other wagon to feeding devices for supplying a battery of gins.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date: January 3, 1905
Creator: Lumpkin, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Starter (open access)

Mechanical Starter

Patent for "improvements in mechanical starters for internal combustion engines" (lines 10-11). It is designed for the use in automobiles, trucks, and similar vehicles.
Date: January 3, 1918
Creator: Johnson, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Explosive-Engine (open access)

Explosive-Engine

Patent for an explosive engine that has a reduced risk of backfiring.
Date: September 3, 1912
Creator: Schaffer, William Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Firearm (open access)

Firearm

Patent for "a projectile adapted for use in guns having an elliptical and twisted bore" with an illustration.
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Cole, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler. (open access)

Fire Kindler.

Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "has for its object to provide novel means for making comparatively inexpensive fire-kindlers; and to such end the invention consists, essentially, in a vessel having two chambers, one capable of being opened at the top and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash-chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid—such as petroleum oil or other liquid hydro-carbon—which flows through the said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use" (lines 8-20).
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Streeter, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler. (open access)

Fire Kindler.

Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "is to provide novel means for determining when the oil is exhausted from the oil vessel and to provide novel means for keeping the ashes from direct contact with the oil-supply openings . . . [for] ashes possess great capillary attraction and take up more hydro-carbon fluid than is requisite when the ashes are dry and not tightly packed, so that the ashes become soft and mushy" (lines 12-21).
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Streeter, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Razor (open access)

Razor

Patent for a razor. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Hollon, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle

Patent for an improvement on non-refillable bottles. The improvement would not let any other liquid be surreptitiously added to the bottle. Also this patent design allows for the closure plug to be reused by the manufacturer of the bottle in new bottles.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Helmcamp, Louis C. & Hoxworth, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator Drip-Pan. (open access)

Refrigerator Drip-Pan.

Patent for a refrigerator drip pan which is closed and prevents water from being spilled.
Date: June 3, 1913
Creator: Patterson, Randall M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jogger Attachment for Platen Printing-Press (open access)

Jogger Attachment for Platen Printing-Press

Patent for an automatic jogging attachment for platen presses. The attachments are unique because they can be placed on the press without alterations, they allow for the stacking of sheets in a uniform manner while also being more durable and efficient.
Date: April 3, 1917
Creator: Howard, Lewis F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.
Date: March 3, 1898
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History