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
Churn-Cover. (open access)

Churn-Cover.

Patent for an improvement in churn covers "which will embody a closed dead-air space above the body of the churn, a guide-tube for the dasher-rod, and the special construction at the outer edge of the base of the cover by which to provide a channel to fit upon the upper edge of the churn-body" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Van Hoozer, Thomas H. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer. (open access)

Draft-Equalizer.

Patent for a "draft even or equalizer...for various cultivators, and particularly for disk plows" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Dysart, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dress - Supporter. (open access)

Dress - Supporter.

Patent for new and useful improvement in dress-supporters for the purpose of providing "simple and effective means for removing the weight of a dress-skirt" (lines 9-11) from the hips and shoulders of the wearer, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Caruthers, Martha J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Platform for Railway-Cars. (open access)

Safety-Platform for Railway-Cars.

Patent for an improvement to safety platforms for freight cars and other railway cars, intended to "protect the lives of trainment and others whose duties demand the rapid passing from car to car of a train while in motion" (lines 12-14).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Holland, John & Wickline, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator-Flue. (open access)

Ventilator-Flue.

Patent for a flue made of separate parts so that it can be disassembled for more efficient transport, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Rim. (open access)

Wheel-Rim.

Patent for improvement to wheel rims providing "means for introducing oil thereinto and distributing it throughout the whole periphery" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Harville, Walter S.
System: The Portal to Texas History