Sash Holder (open access)

Sash Holder

Patent for a sash holder. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Bailey, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading and Ditching Machine (open access)

Grading and Ditching Machine

Patent for a grading and ditching machine. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Baker, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice Hook (open access)

Ice Hook

Patent for an ice hook.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Ball, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Beasley, Henry & Huber, Gauttleb
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker (open access)

Cotton Picker

Patent for a cotton picker. This invention consists is a "pneumatic apparatus for conveying cotton when picked from the plant, and comprises a suction-fan and casing therefor, which latter has pipes and through which air is drawn" (lines 15-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Bennie, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non Refillable Bottle

Patent for a non refillable bottle. Illustration included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Carriker, Samuel M. & Miller, Lawrence M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linotype Distributer (open access)

Linotype Distributer

Patent for a linotype distributer. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Cooney, John Macauley & Totten, Harry Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow or Cultivator (open access)

Harrow or Cultivator

Patent for a harrow or cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Cutter, Oliver C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Working Tool (open access)

Wire Working Tool

Patent for a wire working tool. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Dodd, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole Head. (open access)

Trolley-Pole Head.

Patent for improvements in trolley-pole heads in which a good contact may established at all time between the wheel and the trolley-wire. Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Dunn, Robert I. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toothed Bar For Log Turners (open access)

Toothed Bar For Log Turners

Patent for toothed bar for log turners. Illustrations included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Edwards, Daniel R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon (open access)

Wagon

Patent for a wagon. This invention provides new and improved running gear. Illustrations included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Emberger, Ferdinand
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton, Berry, or Vegetable Picking or Dairy Stool (open access)

Cotton, Berry, or Vegetable Picking or Dairy Stool

Patent for a stool strapped to the user so as to facilitate an ease in picking cotton, berry, or vegetables. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Farley, John C. & Prince, Hyman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Horse Powers (open access)

Attachment For Horse Powers

Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivating Machine (open access)

Cultivating Machine

Patent for a cultivating machine. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Gray, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Cord Holder (open access)

Sash Cord Holder

Patent for a sash cord holder. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Haas, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Neck Yoke and Swingletree (open access)

Convertible Neck Yoke and Swingletree

Patent for a convertible neck yoke and swingletree. Illustration included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Hall, Thomas I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch. (open access)

Switch.

Patent for a switch in which it can be “automatically operated by a moving train either for the purpose of opening or closing the switch, under the control of the engineer, who without stopping the train may open the switch and run his train onto the switch-rails or a siding without slowing up the train further than is necessary to avoid derailing the train when passing from the main line to the switch or siding.” (Lines 11-20) Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for a nut lock. The nut lock consists "of a double threaded bolt having two oppositely threaded nuts thereon and a locking washer" (line 17-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1904
Creator: Hopping, Samuel Miller
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tying Attachment For Baling Presses (open access)

Tying Attachment For Baling Presses

Patent for tying attachment for baling presses for hay. Illustrations included.
Date: May 31, 1904
Creator: Johnson, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner (open access)

Gin Saw Cleaner

Patent for a gin saw cleaner. Object of the invention "is to provide a gin saw cleaning device which may be forced into contact with the saw blades by pressure exercised in the direction of the length of the cleaning device" (line 14-19) Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Jordan, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Key, William C. & Frost, Harvey N.
System: The Portal to Texas History