Garbage-Can (open access)

Garbage-Can

Patent for a garbage receptacle, water proof in nature, to be used in outside places. A removable container allows for the prevention of tampering and a foot operated mechanism allows it to be efficient to utilize.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Jones, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Window-Screen. (open access)

Safety Window-Screen.

Patent for a window screen that is adjustable to different size windows and locks in place on the window frame at different heights to provide a cover for the opening left when a window is opened for ventilation for the purpose of preventing anyone from entering the house through the window.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Crosby, Matthew G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Cabinet (open access)

Display Cabinet

Patent for display cabinet. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Douglass, John A. & Fagg, Carye A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows (open access)

Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows

Patent for a spring tooth for cultivators and harrows. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Seam. (open access)

Garment-Seam.

Patent for a method "of forming seams for joining fabrics, metals, paper, or other sheets by means of thread, rivets, solder, or other expedient, and it has for its object to provide a seam within the outer sheets and their linings will be simultaneously joined at a single operation and by use of a single line of stiching, rivets, or other securing means." (lines 11-19)
Date: April 14, 1903
Creator: Johnson, Nellie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protected Bail-Joint. (open access)

Protected Bail-Joint.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protected rail-joints.
Date: April 19, 1898
Creator: Teamer, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace. (open access)

Furnace.

Patent for a simple, durable, and effective furnace that uses fuel economically and does not release smoke and gases besides out of the chimney. The furnace has a suction fan that draws the gases into the chimney.
Date: April 2, 1895
Creator: Wainright, Walter Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for device for planting, fertilizing, and cultivating seed and grain.
Date: April 1, 1884
Creator: Pickle, William Chesley
System: The Portal to Texas History