Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Rowell, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check Book Cover (open access)

Check Book Cover

Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Templeton, David A.; Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow (open access)

Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow

Patent for a combined grubbing, subsoiling, and turning plow. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Toler, Henry Wilson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder (open access)

Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder

Patent for a combined whip socket and rein holder. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Jacobs, Phillip
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Fikes, Bosiar Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Pippin, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fishing Float (open access)

Fishing Float

Patent for a fishing float. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Jones, Daniel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Generating Oil Burner (open access)

Generating Oil Burner

Patent for generating oil burner. This invention "relates to apparatus by which steam is generated and petroleum or a hydrocarbon reduced to vaporous condition and mixed or combined with the steam" (line 8-12). Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Spiller, Philip Samuel & Haldeman, Horace P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber (open access)

Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber

Patent fora machine for cleaning vegetable fiber. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moistening and Sprinkling Attachment for Brooms. (open access)

Moistening and Sprinkling Attachment for Brooms.

Patent for attachment to brooms which enables the moistening of the broom during use to prevent the spreading of dust. One part regulates the flow of liquid to the broom and another provides a container for the liquid. In effect the attachment to the broom makes it into a convertible mop.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Taylor, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History