Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Pruitt, George Holditch & Pruitt, Conrad D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Machine (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Machine

Patent for a acetylene gas machine that automatically controls the flow of carbid or gas producing material into the generator "by means of a float and lever connection with the valve of the carbid hopper" (lines 19-21).
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Ricketts, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane that uses centrifugal blowers to ensure a safe and practicable flight. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Judson, Fred I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Brake Lock (open access)

Air Brake Lock

Patent for an air brake lock. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1905
Creator: Mabry, Davis L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Mechanism. (open access)

Air-Brake Mechanism.

Patent for "a new and useful air-brake mechanisms in relation to a pressure controller and distributer designed to perform the several independent and joint functions of a triple valve, a pressure-retaining valve, and a pressure relief or reducing valve."
Date: May 29, 1900
Creator: Dillander, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm. (open access)

Alarm.

Patent for an alarm designed to attach to windows or entryways and sound to alert residents of a burglary attempt, with illustrations.
Date: May 29, 1906
Creator: Hobbs, Francis Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm System (open access)

Alarm System

Patent for a fire alarm system which activates when a certain temperature is detected by the device.
Date: May 25, 1909
Creator: Giese, Leo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analgetic Bandage. (open access)

Analgetic Bandage.

Patent for a new and useful "analgetic bandage for curing headaches and oher disorders of the nervous system" (line 5-7) including illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Ray, Thomas L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke (open access)

Animal-Poke

Patent for an animal poke that is worn on the head of the animal to prevent it from breaking or going underneath wire fences.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Carter, Joel F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap primarily intended for capturing rodents. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Pierce, William Z.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Yoke (open access)

Animal-Yoke

Patent for an animal-yoke.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Landers, Willis M.
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Water. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Water.

Patent for a water-cooling apparatus composed chiefly of a subterranean cistern and a water-supply source.
Date: May 20, 1901
Creator: William J. Dossey
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel (open access)

Artificial Fuel

Patent for artificial fuel.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Russi, Charles & Cadena, Celedonio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots. (open access)

Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots.

Patent for "attachment for coffee or tea pots or other receptacles" (lines 5-7) designed to materially improve the construction of the pot or urn, whereby the same will be simple and effective and the process of treating the coffee or tea by the action of the boiling water or steam materially enhanced.
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Darden, George Albion
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Thimbles. (open access)

Attachment for Thimbles.

Patent for invention for the improvement of attachments for thimbles. "The objects of the invention are to produce a device of simple construction for cutting the thread when sewing that can be readily applied to old as well as to new thimbles; also to produce the device in such manner that the thread can be quickly and conveniently cut at any desired point in an expeditious manner " (lines 17-24). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: May 1, 1900
Creator: Brown, Archie Edwards
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear (open access)

Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear

Patent for
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Bassett, Lawrence Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.

Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: May 22, 1900
Creator: Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Filling-Machine (open access)

Automatic Filling-Machine

Patent for a filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun (open access)

Automatic Gun

Patent for an automatic gun which automatically sends the next cartridge to the gun barrel after firing.
Date: May 18, 1909
Creator: Lovelace, Charles D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Switch Lock (open access)

Automatic Railway Switch Lock

Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Sulfer, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History