Cutting-Table. (open access)

Cutting-Table.

Patent for an improved trimming-table that easily measures, holds, and cuts or trims fabrics. It consists of a table with measures, keepers that are attached to the top of the table with a stem, and an arched front portion that ends in a foot-piece.
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Jones, Vina
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a new and improved churn and cooler which allows for easier removal of the cooling liquid and includes illustrations and description.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Sibley, William P. & Williamson, Riley B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Word Counting Device for Type-Writers (open access)

Word Counting Device for Type-Writers

Patent for a word counting device to be used with a typewriter. Illustrations included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Girand, Wilberforce D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence-Stay Machine. (open access)

Wire-Fence-Stay Machine.

Patent for wire working machines, specifically for automatically making wire fence stays. This machine can be operated manually and it is portable.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Alverson, Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter (open access)

Stalk-Cutter

Patent for a tool that can be attached to cultivators and harrows to make stalk and vine cultivation more efficient.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Dorris, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cooking Stove. (open access)

Steam Cooking Stove.

Patent for a new and improved steam stove. This design "is to provide a stove . . . that can be used on a gas-stove base, a lamp-stove, an ordinary cooking-stove, or even over a camp-fire, and which when so used will provide an apartment for baking or warming and another apartment for steaming, the steam being generated within a surrounding boiler and by the heat that has been used to heat the oven" (lines 11-20). It consists in "a casing divided vertically by a transverse boiler-body, chambers in the sides of the lower-half of the casing . . . and a transverse pipe" (lines 34-38).
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: James, Will S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Condenser. (open access)

Steam-Condenser.

Patent for an improved, simple, and compact steam-condenser that is meant to be used in tea factories and similar places where distilled water is needed, and has the minimum amount of back pressure.
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Steinbarth, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hen's Nest (open access)

Hen's Nest

Patent for hen's nest. Illustration included.
Date: April 6, 1909
Creator: Smith, Edward C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator (open access)

Elevator

Patent for an elevator which locks itself should the hoisting cable break. Illustrations included.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Ballard, Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History