Attachment for Coffins (open access)

Attachment for Coffins

Patent for a coffin attachment which supports the head and shoulders of the body and allows them to be adjusted vertically. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Deering, Uriah H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting Dental Plates. (open access)

Casting Dental Plates.

Patent for casting dental plates which builds upon a previous patent by the same inventor, Patent No. 633,222, accepted on September 19, 1899. This patent professes to eliminate previous issues with casting metal such as pinholes and air bubbles that create imperfections in the dental plates.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Streetman, Willard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator

Patent for a Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator that is used to cultivate cotton, corn and nature like plants.
Date: May 22, 1888
Creator: Evans,Lucius Sandiford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a new cotton chopper design that improves the chopper blades' driving gear and the general construction of this type of device, includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Wheeler, Truzy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Storage-Tank Liquid-Dispensing Device. (open access)

Air-Storage-Tank Liquid-Dispensing Device.

Patent for an air storage tank liquid dispending device which is convenient and economically better to pull liquid from wells, buried tanks, etc.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Posa, Emit M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air-Feed Liquid-Container. (open access)

Compressed-Air-Feed Liquid-Container.

Patent for compressed air feed liquid container uses compressed air to move the liquid through tubes and out the pipe.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Posa, Emit M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lemon Juice Extractor (open access)

Lemon Juice Extractor

Patent for a lemon juice extractor. Illustration included.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Conroy, Eliza D. & Jobe, L. D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watch Maker's Pliers. (open access)

Watch Maker's Pliers.

Patent for new and improved watchmaker's pliers. This design "consists in a combination watch-hand tool or pliers to be used by watch-makers for removing the hands from a watch when it is to be repaired or new hands are required to be put on; also for holding new hands when they are to be filed and otherwise fitted to the watch; and the invention more especially consists in certain constructions of the jaw end portions of the pliers" (lines 8-16).
Date: May 12, 1885
Creator: Horton, Henry A. R.
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
Improvement in Horse-Powers. (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Patent for a "means for driving cotton-gins and other light machinery by animal power; and it relates to that form of animal-power apparatus termed the vertical tread-wheel." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 12, 1874
Creator: Powell, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is included.
Date: May 18, 1869
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Attachment for Baling Presses (open access)

Packing Attachment for Baling Presses

Patent for an "improved cotton packing attachment for baling-presses" (lines 9-10).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Shepherd, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel (open access)

Spring Wheel

Patent for a spring wheel to "provide an improved resilient wheel wherein spring members are interposed between the hub and rim maintaining them in yielding rotation" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Corwin, Lawrence O. & Arnold, Wiley Moses
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for a resilient wheel for automobiles, motorcycles, and bicycles that absorbs shocks and is durable.
Date: May 11, 1912
Creator: Moore, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad-ties.
Date: May 17, 1898
Creator: Armstrong, Henry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History