Cleaning and Polishing Apparatus. (open access)

Cleaning and Polishing Apparatus.

Patent for a cleaning and polishing apparatus for sand blasting various objects, such as furniture, which does not require an operator to be watching the operation.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Carroll, Samuel C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp. (open access)

Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved lantern. This design "has relation to that class of lamp in which the reflector is secured to the lamp, having an aperture in its upper portion for the passage of the chimney of the lamp, and in which the reflector may be adjusted to throw the light from the lamp in different directions without moving the lamp; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same" (lines 23-31).
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Williams, Robert E. & Trammell, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a washing machine, where water comes out of the top of a funnel onto the clothes, and the clothes are rotated and agitated around the funnel.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump or Motor. (open access)

Pump or Motor.

Patent for pump which converts to motor. Pump, compressor doubles as a motor when rotation operation is reversed.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Reaugh, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History