Building Construction (open access)

Building Construction

Patent for metal beams used in building construction that have perforated plates to allow the passage of concrete through the plate when the metal piece is embedded in concrete thus strengthening the attachment of the metal and the concrete.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Keyser, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Iron Straightener. (open access)

Cold-Iron Straightener.

Patent for a cold iron straightener for straightening wagon axles or pipes while they are still on the vehicle, which allows for more forceful bending than previous devices and restoration of the parts to their natural position.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Keith, John David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaporating-Pan. (open access)

Evaporating-Pan.

Patent for a evaporating pan for use in making syrup from green juices that helps strain impurities out of the juice and boil it down by having a variety of compartments that the juice flows through throughout the pan.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Chamblee, Wilson G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Extracting Cotton-Seed Oil. (open access)

Process of Extracting Cotton-Seed Oil.

Patent for the process of extracting cotton-seed oil from cotton-seed meal with a hydrocarbon such as kerosene and making the hydrocarbon reusable in the process by producing a cotton-seed oil soap through adding caustic soda to the mixture of cotton seed meal and hydrocarbon.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Bird, Maurice
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaft and Pulley Collar. (open access)

Shaft and Pulley Collar.

Patent for a collar for pulleys and shafts with set-screws that protects the set-screws from damage or harming people working with the systems.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Beal, Ephaphras Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for a burner that uses crude petroleum as well as kerosene, or gasoline. This device works in a way to prevent the jets from clogging and produces a steady flame.
Date: May 14, 1902
Creator: Wadkins, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bung-Extractor (open access)

Bung-Extractor

Patent for "an improved extractor for the bungs of casks and barrels of all kinds, so that the same can be quickly and conveniently removed from the bung-hole" (lines 8-11).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Cathriner, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gasket (open access)

Gasket

Patent for improvements in "gaskets or packing rings for steam-cylinders, and is designed to prevent the gasket from becoming broken or spread apart at the port-openings therein" (lines 7-10).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Engers, Jacob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heating-Drum (open access)

Heating-Drum

Patent for "a simple and efficient construction which may be readily set up and taken down, which will be durable, and in which, moreover, by operation of a single damper the smoke-pipe above the drum may be brought into direct communication with the smoke-pipe below the drum and the several compartments of the apparatus will be opened to permit ready cleaning" (lines 14-22).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Horsley, Robert L. & Rountree, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler (open access)

Milk-Cooler

Patent for a milk cooler that is economic, simple, and efficient in cooling space.
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Burmingham, Daniel Wilson Munroe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refuse-Crematory. (open access)

Refuse-Crematory.

Patent for an improvement to "crematories or furnaces for burning garbage and other matter" (lines 11-12) that has a combined furnace and garbage chamber with walls of fire-brick or tile.
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Risley, Ward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for "a mill equipped with an automatic governor for regulating the speed of the windmill and for preventing injury to the apparatus by throwing the blades of the wheel into or out of the wind in a manner to secure the most effective operation of the device at all times" (lines 9-15).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: Stein, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener (open access)

Wire-Tightener

Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to enable the slack of a wire to be readily taken up at a point between the posts and capable of enabling a wire to be readily stretched to the desired tension" (lines 12-17).
Date: May 14, 1901
Creator: May, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie (open access)

Bale Tie

Patent for "a new and useful bale tie" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 14, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore
System: The Portal to Texas History