Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues (open access)

Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues

Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Caffey, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Binding Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters (open access)

Binding Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters

Patent for a binding mechanism for corn-harvesters. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Patent for "a truck having operating mechanism changeable to either cotton or corn seeders and in combination therewith a hopper formed in sections, one of which is removable" (lines 14-17).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Droitcourt, Adam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Vent (open access)

Bottle-Vent

Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composite Roofing (open access)

Composite Roofing

Patent for a composite roofing, designed to be durable and resistant to extreme temperatures. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Hennion, Amzi G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle (open access)

Bottle

Patent for a glass bottle designed to "prevent the refilling of a bottle when the original contents have been poured therefrom" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Tull, Francis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake (open access)

Car-Brake

Patent for an invention that relates to innovations and improvements to railroad car-brakes.
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Boyers, Thomas Albert.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Screen (open access)

Window-Screen

Patent for a window screen. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Kemmerling, Warren
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knife (open access)

Knife

Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stew-Pan. (open access)

Stew-Pan.

Patent for improvement in stew-pan by using a large size of stew-pan which having three separate compartments with different dimensions, to allow for large quantities of cooking materials to cook at one time without using separate cooking utensils. The heater designed to have fire-box in the front and at the rear, and the top portion of the heater being almost completely open. The elongated stew-pan placed on top of the open fire acted as a closure for the open top of the heater when food is being cooked. Illustration is included.
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Dowell, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment designed for shovels. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Polk, Calvin Lucious
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for "a new and improved washing-machine arranged for use on any kind of tub and adapted to insure a perfect uniform washing of all the clothes in the tub by the use of yieldingly-mounted pounders, which intermittently change their position relatively to the clothes under treatment" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Staggs, Henry F. & Staggs, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a Hay-Press, for the purpose of bailing hay. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Hamilton, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separator (open access)

Separator

Patent for separating oil or grease, grit and water of condensation from steam, either live steam or exhausted-steam, as it passes to or from an engine or steam-pump (lines 10-14).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Hanson, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Secondary Electric Clock (open access)

Secondary Electric Clock

Patent for a secondary electric clock. This invention uses a predetermined movement of the clocks hands thereby preventing any abnormal movement in a secondary clock controlled by a master clock. Illustration included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for a rotary engine "that may be made to effectively employ the full expansive force of the steam or other motive fluid in a uniform manner" (lines 12-14). Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Kelly, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for a rotary engine that operates by virtually any type of motive fluid. Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Walker, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight Attachment (open access)

Headlight Attachment

Patent for headlight attachments designed to display "numbers and other signals in front of locomotive headlights" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: McElvaney, Charles T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Operated Device (open access)

Pump-Operated Device

Patent for "combination with a pump-operating crank-shaft and a walking-beam operatively connected with the pump-rod, means for preventing sudden movements of the pump-rod at the ends of its strokes and for assisting in starting the rod in its reciprocations" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Crawford, Charles Buchanan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Felly-Expander (open access)

Felly-Expander

Patent for "the provision of a device which will be simple in construction, yet strong and efficient in operation" (lines 14-16).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Barber, James A. & Adams, Frederic A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Attachment for Movable Objects. (open access)

Electric Attachment for Movable Objects.

Patent for an electric device that can be attached to equipment such as plows or tractors which sends an electric current underground where the plow is going that prevents dirt from sticking to the equipment and clogging it when the ground is slightly wet.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Dawkins, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Dinkins, James Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History