Resource Type

Well-Tube Holder (open access)

Well-Tube Holder

Patent for a well tube holder for removing pipes from wells and holding them in place. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Preston, Lyman L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Lock (open access)

Window-Lock

Patent for a window lock. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Sydow, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Key, William C. & Frost, Harvey N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hammer (open access)

Hammer

Patent for a hammer. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Rowe, George Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice Hook (open access)

Ice Hook

Patent for an ice hook.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Ball, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inhaler and Respirator (open access)

Inhaler and Respirator

Patent for a flame used inhaler and respirator. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Swindell, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Beasley, Henry & Huber, Gauttleb
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch (open access)

Latch

Patent for a latch. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Owens, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Cylinder Hydrocarbon Engine (open access)

Multiple Cylinder Hydrocarbon Engine

Patent for a multiple cylinder hydrocarbon engine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Russell, Edwin L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vending Machine (open access)

Vending Machine

Patent for a vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Stroop, George G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Working Tool (open access)

Wire Working Tool

Patent for a wire working tool. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Dodd, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Harrow. (open access)

Disk Harrow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in disk harrows.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Livengood, David R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ditching-Machine. (open access)

Ditching-Machine.

Patent for a certain new, useful, and valuable improvement in ditching machines for cutting ditches.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Dillahay, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Screen. (open access)

Fly-Screen.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fly screens.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Hart, Sara C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hook and Bushing for Same. (open access)

Hook and Bushing for Same.

Patent for a hame hook and a bushing for hame-hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Carder, Joshua W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Sealing Newspapers. (open access)

Machine For Sealing Newspapers.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for sealing newspapers, &c.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Sundstorm, Herman T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Safe. (open access)

Match-Safe.

Patent for a simple and efficient match safe device to "deliver the matches singly to suitable aperture through which they may be withdrawn and ignited during the withdrawal" (line 10 -13).
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Villard, John & Henderson, James Potts
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton. (open access)

Process of Baling Cotton.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in processes of baling cotton.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges. (open access)

Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges.

Patent for a new and useful ventilating canopy for cook stoves or ranges.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Spurlin, Crawford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive and efficient wrench device, which is "capable of extracting nails and of being used as a screw-driver without interchanging any of the parts or substituting one part for another" (line 14 - 17).
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Weiss, Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen. (open access)

Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen.

Patent for a new and improved fireplace screen. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be suspended in front of open fireplaces or grates for the purpose of preventing the frequent and sometimes fatal accidents which are directly due to the absence of reliable safe-guards. The invention consists of a series of shields or plates of suitable size and material, which are so connected that when not in use they may be easily drawn upward in succession side by side and compactly placed in an appropriate receptacle attached to the front of a mantel or to a wall above a fireplace" (lines 16-29).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Gibson, Nathaniel B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Royse, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone Block. (open access)

Artificial Stone Block.

Patent for a new and improved artificial-stone block. This design "consists in the particular formation of the protuberances by which interlocking joints or seams of the building-blocks are attained, the object of which is to so form the prolific protuberances of said blocks as to permit joining them in close proximity on all the sides or faces of the seam, to reduce the binding material for the same and increase the strength of the same" (lines 14-22).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Graham, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History