Inside Trimming Machine for Trimming Wooden Handles for Tools and the Like. (open access)

Inside Trimming Machine for Trimming Wooden Handles for Tools and the Like.

Patent for a machine to trim wooden handles for tools. The "invention relates to trimming machines and more particularly to machines for trimming the inside portions of wooden tools or handles, such as handles for spades, shovels, and like articles." (Lines 10-14)
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Kimerer, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Oil-Burners (open access)

Improvement to Oil-Burners

Patent for the improvement of oil-burners in which it is “extremely cheap and simple, which may be readily installed, and which is adapted to burn oil practically without smoke” (lines 12-14). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Hope, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History