Gas-Producer. (open access)

Gas-Producer.

Patent for an improvement to a gas producing apparatus which makes gas continuously from "combustible material mixed with air and the subsequent combination of gases formed by the decomposition" (lines 13-15) of resulting gases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Duplex Door-Check Holder and Buffer (open access)

Duplex Door-Check Holder and Buffer

Patent for door check holder for preventing doors from slamming and holding them in open position. Illustrations included.
Date: April 28, 1908
Creator: Kibbe, Isaac Pease
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound. (open access)

Egg-Preserving Compound.

Patent for a mixture of chemical for preserving eggs; ingredients, measurement and instruction are in included. No illustration.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Brooks, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eight-Lens Telescope. (open access)

Eight-Lens Telescope.

Patent for improvements in refracting-telescopes in which the instrument may be readily and accurately focused by adjustment of the lenses within the telescoping sections; and by having one or more perforated diaphragms for avoiding errors due to spherical aberration, an adjustable and removable transmitter for the light passing through the object-glass, for the purpose of toning the quantity of light. Illustration is included.
Date: April 28, 1891
Creator: Riddle, William Nelson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup.
Date: April 28, 1903
Creator: Hollicott, John & Gillespie, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a machine "for the purpose of cleaning the cotton before it is ginned, and thus free it from foreign substances and produce a better grade of cotton than that which is ginned without being previously cleaned" (lines 15-19).
Date: April 28, 1885
Creator: Tucker, Stephen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History