Closer for Cans and the Like. (open access)

Closer for Cans and the Like.

Patent for an efficient, easy-open-and-close top for various types of cans which are used frequently.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Perkins, William Hunter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Indicator (open access)

Automobile-Indicator

Patent for an automobile indicator which shows the license number of the car and the state in which the license was issued. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Hoaker, John & Banks, William I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun or Rifle. (open access)

Automatic Gun or Rifle.

Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Douglas, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draining Attachment for Sinks (open access)

Draining Attachment for Sinks

Patent for a draining attachment for sinks to facilitate draining water. Illustrations included.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Weaver, Mary A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for a furnace that burns low grade fuel completely reducing waste.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Rice, Earley W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling (open access)

Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling

Patent for an apparatus for forming cotton batting into dense rolls to prepare them for bailing and pressing. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Banister, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Currycomb and Brush (open access)

Currycomb and Brush

Patent for a curry comb and brush. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Endsley, Horace F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Heater for Liquids. (open access)

Electric Heater for Liquids.

Patent for a portable, electric heater that may be plugged into an electrical outlet and immersed in a liquid. The electrodes will be placed in such a way that the circuit may not be closed.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Lawson, James R.; Yoakum, William H. & White, C. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves that does not smoke when it is turned on.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Dawson, Oliver B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foldable Holder for Writing-Pads (open access)

Foldable Holder for Writing-Pads

Patent for a foldable cover for writing pads. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Kennedy, Oliver Jefferson & Kennedy, Kenneth Ben
System: The Portal to Texas History
Doll. (open access)

Doll.

Patent for a doll that will be durable and attractive by constructing a rigid form of the human bust and shoulders which serves to make these parts more durable, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Baker, Marie K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Stripping Wheels from Shafts (open access)

Device for Stripping Wheels from Shafts

Patent for a device for stripping wheels from shafts. Illustrations included.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Allien, Leon F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Fan for Sewing-Machines

Patent for a fan for sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: May 21, 1912
Creator: Ownby, Albert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Blocker (open access)

Plant-Blocker

Patent for a plant blocker. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Weisenborn, George P. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Center-Piece for Buggy Neck-Yokes (open access)

Center-Piece for Buggy Neck-Yokes

Patent for a center-piece for buggy neck-yokes that strengthens the connection between the yoke and the tongue.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Stimson, Henry W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastening Device (open access)

Fastening Device

Patent for Fastening Device which relates to "improvements in fastening devices and more particularly to latches and cooperating strikes such as used in fastening gates, etc. One object of my invention is to provide a strike for such latching means which is easily and quickly put in place, which is easily adjustable to different heights of the latching member, which is easily and quickly adjustable to different horizontal positions of the latching member, and which is so constructed that it is firmly but simply held in place in any of its positions" (lines 8-20).
Date: May 31, 1912
Creator: Torian, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Trace Clip (open access)

Adjustable Trace Clip

Patent for Adjustable Trace Clip. "The invention relates to an adjustable trace clip, and has for its primary object to provide a clip of this character in which the connecting strap between the back and belly bands may be adjusted with relation to the trace so as to permit the back band to properly fit the animal and also allow the longitudinal adjustment of the trace" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 24, 1912
Creator: Bradfute, Benjamine F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a pipe and nut wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Wood, Hezekiah M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tube-Clamp (open access)

Tube-Clamp

Patent for a tube clamp for holding pipe sections in wells.
Date: May 21, 1912
Creator: Krauskope, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator and Support (open access)

Insulator and Support

Patent for an insulator and support for communication lines.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Gressett, Lawrence F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indicating Attachment for Tanks (open access)

Indicating Attachment for Tanks

Patent for an indicating attachment for gas tanks on cars.
Date: May 28, 1912
Creator: Turner, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide (open access)

Insecticide

Patent for a recipe for insecticide for the Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Newell, Wilmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel equipped with a substitute for the pneumatic tire. This wheel will have an inner and outer hub, spaced from each other and adapted to undergo relative motion, coiled springs being mounted radially upon the outer hub which serve to communicate rotation from one hub to the other.
Date: May 14, 1912
Creator: Wylie, Alfred R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vending-Machine (open access)

Vending-Machine

Patent for a vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Marshall, Harry Everett
System: The Portal to Texas History