Combination Tool (open access)

Combination Tool

Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Barry, Jefferson D.; Wise, Daniel; Dehn, Frederick D. & Crossland, Mortimer L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Velocipedes (open access)

Improvements in Velocipedes

Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
Date: June 20, 1869
Creator: Dillaha, J. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn suspended on a pendulum.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Fitzhugh, Cameron S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linotype Machine (open access)

Linotype Machine

Patent for used producing lines of type, and it is the object of the invention to provide a comparatively simple, small, inexpensive and compact machine of that character generally resembling a type write in its construction and operation, and operable to produce lines of type.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: French, Morris
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lint-Cotton Feeder (open access)

Lint-Cotton Feeder

Patent for the collection of cotton, monitoring the amount of cotton lint being received, creating certain actions when those amounts are reached, including detailed instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1904
Creator: Hague, James Arthur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Harper, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Object-Finders. (open access)

Attachment for Object-Finders.

Patent for a "new and useful attachment for the object finder of a camera" (lines 9-10) with adjustable configuration, including illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Lawson, Harry C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Teaching Music (open access)

Device for Teaching Music

Patent for a music education device aimed toward children and basic music building blocks. It is designed to teach the positions of piano keyboard notes through the use of differently dressed and named puppets. These puppets can be adjusted to also introduce basic musical concepts like rests, rhythm, and time.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Maxwell, Annie L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Ogden, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Percolator. (open access)

Percolator.

Patent for a percolator for coffee or tea that is "reliable and efficient in its operation, readily and easily adjusted to fit the various sizes of pots and also inexpensive in manufacture." (lines 44-47)
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Rose, Isabell M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Machine (open access)

Irrigating Machine

Patent for an irrigating machine. Illustration included.
Date: December 20, 1904
Creator: Smith, Warren W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Technical College Annual Financial Report: August 31, 2015 (open access)

Texas State Technical College Annual Financial Report: August 31, 2015

Annual financial report of Texas State Technical College documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2015.
Date: November 20, 2015
Creator: Texas State Technical College
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Pot. (open access)

Improvement in Coffee-Pot.

Patent for improvements to a coffee pot. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: August 20, 1867
Creator: Walker, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power Press. (open access)

Horse-Power Press.

Patent for improvements in horse-power presses by using a combination of a “frame and a shaft mounted therein, carrying an eccentric provided with a groove, of a packing-rod having a pivoted arm, carrying a roller working in said groove.” (Lines 87-91) This newly designed press is “reversible—that is to say, the eccentric may be rotated to the right or left and the same result produced on the packing-rods and in equally as effective a manner.” (Lines 75-79) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Willis, William Beale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History