Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for an insect destroyer specifically for use in removing boll weevils from cotton plants by shaking them off the plants and sucking them up with suction tubes which deliver them to a crushing mechanism.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Peek, Joseph S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a valve. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Kinnison, Hallah C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Burner (open access)

Vapor Burner

Patent for vapor burner. Illustration included.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lift. (open access)

Lift.

Patent for certain new and useful improvment
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Jones, Athelstan O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a lock. This invention is a design of door lock that uses a key and combination. Illustration included.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kettle. (open access)

Kettle.

Patent for an improved kettle that can be used for both ordinary kettle purposes and for the purpose of keeping coffee, eggs, or other foods warm.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Redwood, Archibald G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Transplanting Machine. (open access)

Vegetable-Transplanting Machine.

Patent for Vegetable transplanting machine, it describes about new technique of planting a crops with effective irrigation technique
Date: February 10, 1902
Creator: Carroll, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Nut. (open access)

Lock-Nut.

Patent for a lock-nut which prevents the nut from accidentally rotating on the bolt, including illustrations. The nut is locked in position when a locking key is introduced to grooves on the lower surface of the nut and the adjacent face of the washer.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Crawford, Hezekiah H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet. (open access)

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for a kitchen cabinet, which is compact but has many features such as a built in sifting system from the glass fronted dry ingredient drawers, a sink, fold out counter space, and slide-out bottom drawers.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Ridley, Richard W. & Clark, Andrew R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vise. (open access)

Vise.

Patent for new improvements to vises involving accessories "to cooperate with the jaws of the vise in such a manner that the jaws will be very quickly and tightly brought together into direct engagement or into engagement with any object interposed between them," (lines 18-23) and an attachment to restore a work-out vise, including illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Phenix, William Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Axle (open access)

Vehicle-Axle

Patent for improvements in axles "particularly to axles for buggies and other light vehicles." (Lines 12-13)
Date: February 19, 1907
Creator: Raines, Stephen H. & Schuessler, Amile O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Seat. (open access)

Wagon-Seat.

Patent for creating a seat "to provide a spring-mounted seat for wagons which shall be strong and durable, not liable to become deranged by rough usage, which shall be comfortable for the rider, and which can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost" (lines 13-18).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Holland, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher. (open access)

Mail-Bag Catcher.

Patent for railway mail service bag-catchers "to provide a catcher which will remove a bag from a supporting-crane and transfer it automatically into the mail-car while the train is in motion" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Elliff, Josiah C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table. (open access)

Ironing-Table.

Patent for a new adjustable ironing-table that folds for storage, including illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leather Product and Process for Making the Same. (open access)

Leather Product and Process for Making the Same.

Patent for a process of treating leather that produces leather that is heavier and more durable for shoe soles by coating it in linseed oil and soaking it in a bath of Portland cement, borax, and water for at least 24 hours and then coating it with linseed oil a second time.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Mackay, Hugh
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap (open access)

Trap

Patent for a trap. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: McEachern, John Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheeled Plow. (open access)

Wheeled Plow.

Patent for a wheeled plow with multiple accessories attached to it that allows for adjustment of each accessory separately, holds the weight of the parts better, and keeps the parts more securely connected to the plow.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Hendon, Walter P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap (open access)

Trap

Patent for a trap for the catching of small animals that can also be applied towards large animals and marine life, with illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Holland, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree (open access)

Whiffletree

Patent for a whiffletree. This invention is "contemplated to construct doubletrees or swingletrees of peculiar form and provided with peculiar connecting parts to secure the same together" (line 13-16). Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Burton, Robert Redmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transplanting-Basket (open access)

Transplanting-Basket

Patent for a basket for transplanting various types of plants. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Edwards, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator. (open access)

Ventilator.

Patent for a new and useful ventilator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Schumacher, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transformer (open access)

Transformer

Patent for transformer.
Date: February 24, 1903
Creator: Depp, Otis J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vermin-Destroyer. (open access)

Vermin-Destroyer.

Patent for a device to exterminate burrowing animals.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Phillips, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam and Air Valve Operator. (open access)

Steam and Air Valve Operator.

Patent for a steam and air valve operator that allows "the rotative movement of element to be transformed into reciprocity movement of another element." (lines 11-13). It also has new setup for double gears within the device that allows rest of the parts between movements.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Greeson, David H.
System: The Portal to Texas History