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Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.
Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date:
April 5, 1898
Creator:
Hood, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for an improved cotton-chopper.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Leubner, Carl W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mop and Brush.
Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Bagby, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling and Preserving Apparatus.
Patent for a "cooling apparatus in which a cloth envelops a vertically-disposed series of supports, and has its upper end dipping into a receptacle supplied with water; and the object of the improvement is to secure a uniformity of temperature throughout the structure, and particularly in the several compartments formed between the various supports, as well as to prevent the spoiling of food by foreign matters entering the same by accidental dislodgment from a support immediately thereover." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Brown, Elijah Clark
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Couch and Storage-Chest.
Patent for a couch that stores clothes in its body and head. The clothes can be readily accessed.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Caruthers, Robert A. & Savage, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 142
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating Coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson and the Baylor Lady Bears for winning the 2005 NCAA Women's National Basketball Championship.
Date:
April 29, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Perry, Cornelius Doctor & Wosnig, Walter, E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Curran, William Ferris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Lane, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Clipper.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements" (line 6) in the Hair Clipper, concerning the introduction of more efficient "double-acting clippers" (line 12), including illustrations.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Jones, Sidney P. & Wallace, David P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Universal Household Grater.
Patent for a new universal grater which eliminates the risk of injury the user may gain from grating materials.
Date:
April 4, 1922
Creator:
Lambdin, William McKendree
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ledger with Visible Index.
Patent for a ledger with a visible index of numbers and names with tabs to allow accounts to be looked up easily.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Kellner, Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projectile
Patent for "an improved projectile for guns and ordnance of various classes and bores" (lines 7-9).
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Cole, William Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter Attachment
Patent for improvements to stalk-cutter attachments to plows. The invention allows stalks to be cut by the plow and then turned under it into the soil to decrease labor an improve plow performance.
Date:
April 7, 1919
Creator:
Wylie, Arthur E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Press Mat.
Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "consists in a mat for oil-presses having its leaves composed of paper-pulp molded by dies or molds into the requisite shape to present a hard and inelastic body to the meal to be pressed, said leaves of molded paper-pulp being provided with a leather backing" (lines 18-24).
Date:
April 8, 1884
Creator:
Osborn, Adelbert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller.
Patent for a stump-puller that "can be quickly assembled and taken apart, to devise a device which will admit of the rope being quickly paid off from the capstan after the stump has been uprooted, and, finally, to provide a machine which can be easily handled and which will perform the required work in a rapid and satisfactory manner and which can be transported from one stump to the other by being dragged upon the ground" (lines 10-19).
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Widmer, Louis J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Pillow.
Patent for improvements to pneumatic pillows, specifically the ventilator within the pillow.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Kelly, Ida
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Boiler, Skimmer, and Oil-Separator
Patent for a water-boiler, skimmer, and oil-separator.
Date:
April 21, 1903
Creator:
Johnson, Willie Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Draft Appliance
Patent for a detachable draft appliance.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Segal, Mordecai
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove Pipe Damper.
Patent for a new and improved stove-pipe damper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a damper-blade with a spindle rigidly attached thereto and having at one end a cylindrical pivot projecting beyond the periphery of the blade, and at the opposite end a screw projecting beyond said periphery, of a supporting-ring in which the projecting ends of said spindle are journaled, the bearing of the cylindrical end of said spindle being in an inwardly-bent portion of said supporting-ring" (lines 50-59).
Date:
April 19, 1887
Creator:
Lederle, Edward Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post.
Patent for improvements to Fence-Posts, preferably made from metal, providing for simple construction and a means for holding wire, which is also of simple construction.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Copeland, Walter G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "has for its object to provide novel means for making comparatively inexpensive fire-kindlers; and to such end the invention consists, essentially, in a vessel having two chambers, one capable of being opened at the top and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash-chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid—such as petroleum oil or other liquid hydro-carbon—which flows through the said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use" (lines 8-20).
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Streeter, George D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "is to provide novel means for determining when the oil is exhausted from the oil vessel and to provide novel means for keeping the ashes from direct contact with the oil-supply openings . . . [for] ashes possess great capillary attraction and take up more hydro-carbon fluid than is requisite when the ashes are dry and not tightly packed, so that the ashes become soft and mushy" (lines 12-21).
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Streeter, George D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Cream Freezer
Patent for an ice cream freezer. Illustration included.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Prade, Julien
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History