Attachment for Display Figures (open access)

Attachment for Display Figures

Patent for an attachment for display figures that fills out the sleeves of a garment.
Date: April 23, 1912
Creator: Beyette, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooler (open access)

Cooler

Patent for a cooler for water, milk, and other perishable items. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Langham, William Wiley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting-Machine (open access)

Casting-Machine

Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains

Patent for an apparatus for cooling journal boxes on trains by sending water to the journal boxes from a water system installed in each car.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Andrews, Walter P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling (open access)

Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Patent for a train pipe coupling which connects automatically and does not come loose when the train is going around curves.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Blair, Oliver C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scraper and Fender Attachment (open access)

Combined Scraper and Fender Attachment

Patent for a scraper and fender attachment for plows. Illustrations included
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Buttrill, David B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Fastener. (open access)

Chain-Fastener.

Patent for a chain fastener for logging trucks, which can be easily unattached and works with most types of logging trucks.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Biskamp, Richard A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Preserving Wooden Poles (open access)

Apparatus for Preserving Wooden Poles

Patent for an apparatus for preserving treated wooden poles. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Logan, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety-Valve and Waste-Cock. (open access)

Combined Safety-Valve and Waste-Cock.

Patent for a combined safety valve and waste cock for cooling engines.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Fell, Julius P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Propeller (open access)

Air-Propeller

Patent for a propeller for aircrafts. Illustrations included.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Buchanan, Jesey H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Controlling System for Motor-Traction Cars. (open access)

Controlling System for Motor-Traction Cars.

Patent for controlling systems for motor traction cars. These controlling systems provide automatic control outside the volition of the motorman.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Mayo, William C.; Briggs, George E. & Houlehan, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Drier (open access)

Clothes Drier

Patent for a clothes drier. Illustration included.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Bird, Fred E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Reversing Mechanism (open access)

Automatic Reversing Mechanism

Patent for an automatic reversing mechanism for cotton presses.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Cameron, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Apparatus. (open access)

Cooling Apparatus.

Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Steen, Mary L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conductor's Train-Book (open access)

Conductor's Train-Book

Patent for a conductor's train-book. This invention if for a conductor to log train movements. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Crane, James C. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Thomas, Edward E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter (open access)

Carbureter

Patent for Carbureter and it uses.
Date: April 1, 1912
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air Device for Gas Engines. (open access)

Automatic Air Device for Gas Engines.

Patent for a removable automatic air device for delivering air to gas engines in proportion to the speed of the engine.
Date: April 3, 1917
Creator: Rivers, Charles A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop. (open access)

Automatic Train-Stop.

Patent for a more efficient automatic train stop with a mechanism that uses a connection with the block system used on railways to stop a train when it runs into "the tracks of the danger zone or upon the tracks of the block where the train should be stopped." (lines 16-18)
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Gramm, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressor. (open access)

Compressor.

Patent for a compressor. This is an improvement upon previous refrigeration and ice making machines.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Fowler, Paul R.; Gingrich, John A.; Tongate, Willis B. & Ridge, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post. (open access)

Fence-Post.

Patent for new metal fence posts and supports to "improve and simplify the general construction of devices of this character" (lines 13-15).
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Naiser, John Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chimney-Protector. (open access)

Chimney-Protector.

Patent for a chimney protector that is "easy and cheap to manufacture which when applied to the chimney top of an oil cooking stove will prevent the drippings or over flow from utensils placed on top of the stove from running down the side" (lines 14-18), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Shiller, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for a trap for ants and other burrowing insects which works at the site of the ant-hill or burrow.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Cox, Samuel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment for Lister-plows (open access)

Colter Attachment for Lister-plows

Patent for a colter attachment (triangular blade used on lister plows), by capitalizing on parts that should already exist on the plow.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Mosely, George L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History