Coin Controlled Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Controlled Vending Machine

Patent for coin controlled vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Kreter, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Tool (open access)

Compound Tool

Patent for a compound tool. This invention consists of multiple tools in one. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Highsmith, Aubrey O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Tank (open access)

Flushing Tank

Patent for a flushing tank. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Walker, Benjamin, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard Rail Clamp (open access)

Guard Rail Clamp

Patent for a guard rail clamp. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Kelly, Patrick Edward & Riordan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mote Board For Cotton Gins (open access)

Mote Board For Cotton Gins

Patent for mote board for cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Bodungen, Clemens G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seat Shaping Implement (open access)

Seat Shaping Implement

Patent for seat shaping implement. This invention is designed to form seats in the prongs of studs employed in the setting of precious stones. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Bolding, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suspenders (open access)

Suspenders

Patent for suspenders. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Scott, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Removing Floors, Ceilings, Sidings, &c. (open access)

Tool For Removing Floors, Ceilings, Sidings, &c.

Patent for a tool that removes floors, ceilings, sidings, and more. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Harmon, William O. & Quarles, Alexander H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher (open access)

Churn-Dasher

Patent for distributing air through cream while "thoroughly" agitating said cream, with brief instruction and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1904
Creator: Vestal, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevating Brick Car (open access)

Elevating Brick Car

Patent for an elevating brick car. This invention "is to improve construction of elevating brick cars or trucks and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient car or truck designed for use in a brick yard for carrying bricks from a machine to a yard, kiln, or drier" (line 11-17). Illustrations included.
Date: April 19, 1904
Creator: Zilker, Andrew J.; Tidmarsh, Albert L. & Armstrong, Charles J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel (open access)

Vehicle Wheel

Patent for a vehicle wheel. This invention is designed to keep dust and grit out of the axle point and nib. It has a wooden core sheathed in metal. Illustration included.
Date: April 19, 1904
Creator: Polk, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence (open access)

Wire Fence

Patent for wire fence. Illustration included.
Date: April 19, 1904
Creator: Hughes, Wallace B. & Samuels, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Checkrein Attachment (open access)

Checkrein Attachment

Patent for checkrein attachment. This invention is intended for use with harnessed horses. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Clary, John A. & Butler, Hard
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
Grinding Attachment (open access)

Grinding Attachment

Patent for a grinding attachment. This attachment is a grindstone that is turned via the hand-car. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Brown, Mik
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness Fastner (open access)

Harness Fastner

Patent for a harness fastener. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Cornitius, Ermst
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Water-Heater and Steam-Cooker (open access)

Portable Water-Heater and Steam-Cooker

Patent for a portable water-heater and steam-cooker that "can be adapted for heating water for a variety of domestic purposes, such as for washing clothes and the like, and for supplying steam for scalding clothes, for cooking feed for stock, and for operating a churn or similar device" (lines 14-19).
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Staton, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Joint and Chair (open access)

Railroad Joint and Chair

Patent for a railroad joint and chair. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Hooper, William N. & Sunday, Thomas J.
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
Variable Speed Governor (open access)

Variable Speed Governor

Patent for a variable speed governor. This invention regulates speed of vehicle without stopping the motor. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Casteel, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone (open access)

Artificial Stone

Patent for artificial stone.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Steger, Virge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cement Plaster Kettle (open access)

Cement Plaster Kettle

Patent for a cement plaster kettle. This "invention is an improvement in kettles for cooking gypsum in order to convert the same into cement-plaster" (line 8-10). Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Malone, Charles Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Handpiece (open access)

Dental Handpiece

Patent for a dental handpiece. Illustrations included.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Crawford, Lyter H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hip Form and Stocking Supporter (open access)

Hip Form and Stocking Supporter

Patent for hip-forms and stocking supporters. This "invention pertains to hip-forms and stocking supporters for ladies wear; and it consists in combined hip-form and stocking-supporter the novelty, utility, and practical advantages" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Beeler, Gertrude
System: The Portal to Texas History