Automatic Railway Switch Lock (open access)

Automatic Railway Switch Lock

Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Sulfer, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivating Machine (open access)

Cultivating Machine

Patent for a cultivating machine. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Gray, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Producing Device (open access)

Draft Producing Device

Patent for a draft producing device. This invention is placed under the eye of a kiln or under a boiler to increase air to the furnace. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter For Rain Spouts (open access)

Filter For Rain Spouts

Patent for a filter for rain spouts. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Moechel, Aratine G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner (open access)

Gin Saw Cleaner

Patent for a gin saw cleaner. Object of the invention "is to provide a gin saw cleaning device which may be forced into contact with the saw blades by pressure exercised in the direction of the length of the cleaning device" (line 14-19) Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Jordan, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading and Ditching Machine (open access)

Grading and Ditching Machine

Patent for a grading and ditching machine. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Baker, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Low Down Binder (open access)

Low Down Binder

Patent for low down binder. "This invention relates to new and useful improvements in low down binders; and the object of the invention is to produce an apparatus whereby it will not be necessary to elevate grain, as in common binders, allowing the same to pass down an incline to the packers" (line 14-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Holder (open access)

Sash Holder

Patent for a sash holder. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Bailey, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch. (open access)

Switch.

Patent for a switch in which it can be “automatically operated by a moving train either for the purpose of opening or closing the switch, under the control of the engineer, who without stopping the train may open the switch and run his train onto the switch-rails or a siding without slowing up the train further than is necessary to avoid derailing the train when passing from the main line to the switch or siding.” (Lines 11-20) Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap Gun (open access)

Trap Gun

Patent for a trap gun. This invention is designed to "insure explosion of the charge upon the animal taking the bait and with certainty to effect shooting of game" (line 9-12). Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Thomas, Isaac N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole Head. (open access)

Trolley-Pole Head.

Patent for improvements in trolley-pole heads in which a good contact may established at all time between the wheel and the trolley-wire. Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Dunn, Robert I. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History