Hoe. (open access)

Hoe.

Patent for a new and improved garden hoe used for weeding purposes. The improvement is related to, "...the handle of the implement being hollow" (lines 11-12) and able to receive a quantity of seed, and a mechanism that controls the delivery of seed to the hoe.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Etheridge, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Soldering-Iron (open access)

Electric Soldering-Iron

Patent for an improved electric soldering iron, "to provide novel means for permitting the flow of solder and for shutting it off" (lines 18-19), including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Giffen, Frank M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cable Clamp. (open access)

Drill-Cable Clamp.

Patent for Drill-Cable Clamp is for a device that clamps the rope to which the drill connects. The rope can be rotated, while connected to both the drill and the drilling machine securely.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Clayton, Robert Fentress
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Tray (open access)

Ice-Tray

Patent describing a "combined water-cooler and ice tray [...for] the cooling of water by ice without the ice coming in contact with the water" (lines 9-12).
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Henning, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus

Patent for an improved refrigerating apparatus.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Strange, P. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener. (open access)

Sash-Fastener.

Patent for new and improved sash-fastener so as to "lock the sash when elevated as well as closed" (line 15 & 16), including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Neher, John F. & Neher, Noah N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Frame (open access)

Saw Frame

Patent for a transportable support frame for saws as teeth are sharpened or set, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Lawrence, Robert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry Feeding and Watering Device (open access)

Poultry Feeding and Watering Device

Patent for "new and useful poultry feeding and watering device" (lines 5-7), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 6, 1911
Creator: Wilson, W. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Picture Case for Tombstones. (open access)

Picture Case for Tombstones.

Patent for a new and improved picture frame for tombstones. This design, "it will be seen . . . is cheap and strong, and will perfectly protect the picture or memento, and that when in place in the tombstone its outer surface will stand flush with the outer surface of the stone, and by securing the case or frame in the stone by means of the metal or cement cast around the case, it will be seen that the case cannot be removed from the stone without breaking the stone, so that there will be no danger of the memento or picture being meddled with or taken out of the picture or frame" (lines 78-89).
Date: May 6, 1884
Creator: Holloman, Harvey Allen & Green, William Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comments on the Transportation of Irradiated Fuel and Radioactive Wastes for M Louis Armand, Euratom Group (open access)

Comments on the Transportation of Irradiated Fuel and Radioactive Wastes for M Louis Armand, Euratom Group

General considerations involving the transportation of irradiated fuel and radioactive wastes are reviewed. It is assumed that many reactors will supply feed to a few large multipurpose chemical plants which ultimately send radioactive waste to a few disposal sites. General economic considerations of irradiated fuel reprocessing, economic aspects of the nuclear economy complex, growth predictions of the nuclear power economy in the U.S., general requirements for the shipment of fuel and waste, regulations applicable to fuel shipment, and permissible radiation levels are discussed.
Date: May 6, 1957
Creator: Culler, F. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton Cleaning Machine (open access)

Cotton Cleaning Machine

Patent for an improved cotton cleaning machine.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Brune, A. & Stone, C. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signal-Lantern. (open access)

Signal-Lantern.

Patent for a gas-burner signal lantern, instead of an oil-burner signal lantern, that indicates whether or not the track is all clear of trains; includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Ruebel, C. A. Ernst
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Oil-Tank (open access)

Safety Oil-Tank

Patent for improvements to safety oil tanks to prevent explosions, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Smith, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting and Stepping Machine (open access)

Cutting and Stepping Machine

Patent for a cutting and stepping machine meant to replace a human cutter.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Moore, L. R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings of that class which have a sliding spring-actuated pin-support, against which the link comes to drive the support back and permit the pin to fall and effect an automatic coupling" (lines 9-13).
Date: May 6, 1884
Creator: Mayfield, Samuel Brooks
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator

Patent for improvements so that the "choppers may be raised, in order to leave standing such of the growth of the cotton as is necessary, or while turning corners; third, in means hereinafter to be described, by which the depth at which the scrapers and choppers run into the ground maybe adjusted" (lines 16-22).
Date: May 6, 1890
Creator: Ellis, David P,
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History