Cotton Harvesting Machine (open access)

Cotton Harvesting Machine

Patent for a cotton harvester. Illustrations are included.
Date: May 16, 1903
Creator: Jackson, A. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Mechanism for Tanks. (open access)

Cleaning Mechanism for Tanks.

Patent for Cleaning Mechanism for Tanks.
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Hogg, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for an oil feeder designed to burn crude oil. It features a carbon deposit chamber and a vent pipe.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Hartung, Theodore A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extermination of Boll-Weevil. (open access)

Apparatus for Extermination of Boll-Weevil.

Patent for Apparatus for Extermination of Boll Weevil. A vehicle which can carry a furnace to generate noxious fumes with insecticides and cool those fumes to produce a toxic atmosphere around effected plants.
Date: May 4, 1903
Creator: Taylor, James Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Reeling Apparatus (open access)

Wire-Reeling Apparatus

Patent for a wheeled spool for commercial construction and telecommunications wire.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Brooks, Jesse Watson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide (open access)

Insecticide

Patent for a type of insecticide for cotton and vegetable plants. Particularly effective for use against the "boll-weevil" of cotton plants.
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Bourlon, Eugene A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Roasting Ores. (open access)

Process of Roasting Ores.

Patent for a process for roasting ores "wherein the ore is conveyed by an air-blast to and through a roasting-chamber" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post-Auger (open access)

Post-Auger

Patent for a post auger.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Sanford, James Dobbs
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Bag Machine. (open access)

Paper-Bag Machine.

Patent for improvements in the paper-bag machine (related to author's previous Patent No. 689,441, December 24, 1901) for the purpose of improving the mechanism for forming the primary fold of the bag-bottom in the bag-folding process, including descriptions of the machinery, parts, and illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Tyson, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Temporary Binder (open access)

Temporary Binder

Patent for a temporary binder.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Buford, Paschal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Touch-Regulator for Pianos (open access)

Touch-Regulator for Pianos

Patent for a touch regulator for pianos.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Goggan, Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed Air Elevator for Fluids (open access)

Compressed Air Elevator for Fluids

Patent for a compressed air elevator for fluids.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Sloan, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Circuit-Breaker for Storage Batteries (open access)

Circuit-Breaker for Storage Batteries

Patent for a circuit-breaker for storage batteries "whereby the circuit is automatically broken when the storage battery has become fully charged. (line 11-13)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Garrett, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Regulator for Steam Boilers (open access)

Water Regulator for Steam Boilers

Patent for a water regulator for steam boilers.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Walker, Benjamin, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup Leather (open access)

Stirrup Leather

Patent for a leather stirrup designed as an improvement and "is the production of such devices with a minimum expenditure of material and labor." (12-14)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Wroe, James P. & Lange, Henry F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a swinging gate for "general purposes; and consists in the constrcution hereinafter described and shown by which when the gate is shut the hinge-supports are relieved of any strain which would tent to pull them out of perpendicular position, and at the same time the gate itself when in a closed position is so supported that all liability of sagging is avoided, and the gate when in closed position is securely locked against accidental opening.(line 11-20)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Ogden, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ore-Roaster (open access)

Ore-Roaster

Patent for an ore roaster " to provide an apparatus for roasting ore in which the ore is suspended in a current of air moving in a rotary path and entirely surrounded by the same, whereby the fusing of the more readily fusible constituents of the ore is prevented and much better results in the concentration secured." (lines 14-21)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard (open access)

Cattle-Guard

Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from straying from a wagon-road into the inclosures along railroad-tracks." (line 11-13)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Welsh, George G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder (open access)

Copy-Holder

Patent for a copy holder.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Hoyle, Samuel Cook
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Car Door (open access)

Grain-Car Door

Patent for a grain-car door.
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: Church, Josiah W. & O'Gorman, M. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle (open access)

Riding-Saddle

Patent for a riding saddle.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Beckerman, Fred John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box for Vehicles (open access)

Axle-Box for Vehicles

Patent for axle box for vehicles "in which after the axle and axle-boxes have been worm by use the lost motion can be taken up by interposing a tightening-washer and spring between the axle-box and nut, so the the axle-box of the wheel is restored to the same condition.(10-15)
Date: May 19, 1903
Creator: McFarland, Julian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant trap "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be place over an ant-hill and capable of capturing the ant in the hill as they leave the same and also of catching the outside ants as they attempt to enter the hill. (line 11-17)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Finley, William Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator (open access)

Elevator

Patent for an elevator.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Ham, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History