Candy and Process of Making Same (open access)

Candy and Process of Making Same

Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Webb, Jesse B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Sash-Lock (open access)

Improvements in Sash-Lock

Patent for an improvement on sash locks or fasteners for a window frame to allow two sashes to be controlled by one sash.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Miller, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Honey (open access)

Apparatus for Extracting Honey

Patent for an apparatus for extracting honey. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Avant, Leonidas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter which includes a scale to determine the amount of cheese including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. "This invention is a cattle guard having transverse drainage conduits with overhanging plates and so proportioned that the foot of an animal will be projected into the conduit" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for making mattresses. (open access)

Machine for making mattresses.

Patent for a machine for making mattresses with compressed lint-cotton inserted into a tick.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Trimming Machine (open access)

Lawn-Trimming Machine

Patent for a lawn-trimming machine designed to trim the edges of lawns or other grass plots. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Cady, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock for Toy Banks (open access)

Lock for Toy Banks

Patent for a lock for toy banks. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Hansen, Christian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Machine. (open access)

Well-Boring Machine.

Patent for improved mechanism of well-boring machine in which it “composed of as few parts as possible, which will effectively grip and rotate a drill-rod or pipe containing coupling and reducing - nipples, or composed of length or sections of varying diameters without impeding the end movement or deranging the central position of said drill-rod or pipe, and without delaying the progress of the machine, to adjust or change any part or parts thereof, also to improve the means for gripping the drill-rod or pipe and to eliminate the tendency to split or longitudinally furrow the latter, which would render the same liable to open and twist off when subject to high pressure during the progress of boring.” (Lines 20-34) Illustration is included.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Woods, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for a nut lock for railroad tracks, which will prevent rail bolts from unscrewing.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Mills, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Truing and Dressing Commutators. (open access)

Tool for Truing and Dressing Commutators.

Patent for a tool "for truing and dressing the commutators of dynamo motors... especially designed for truing and dressing the commutators of motors employed for propelling cars" (lines 9-14).
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Frick, Claus Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace - Fastener (open access)

Trace - Fastener

Patent for improved spring activated trace fastener.
Date: June 26, 1900
Creator: Woods, Washington Green Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester (open access)

Spark Arrester

Patent for a spark arrester. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Bender, Rudolf A. & Schomburg, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Transmitter (open access)

Telephone Transmitter

Patent for a telephone transmitter. Illustration included.
Date: June 6, 1905
Creator: Fletcher, Milton J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music Leaf Turner (open access)

Music Leaf Turner

Patent for a music leaf turner.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Hutchinson, Searcy T. & McNeir, Forest W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Mills, Thomas M. & McKinnon, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Bicycle (open access)

Motor-Bicycle

Patent for "a frame in which the motor shall be firmly supported without undue strain on any part of the machine and in which the weight of the motor shall be as low as may be and to connect the motor to the driving-axle in such way that a pedal shall also be utilized for driving the machine with little interference from the motor and with a proper balance of friction and to improve certain details and combinations of the driving-gear" (lines 10-20).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow produced as "a simple, inexpensive, and durable implement for plowing out stalks, particularly cotton-stalks, without turning the ground or covering the stalks, and arranged to prevent the stalks from being precipitated in front of the standard, and thereby impeding the movement of the plow. (lines 9-14)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Lassen, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling (open access)

Thill Coupling

Patent for a thill coupling. This invention is designed to be placed between the rear end of the thill and the connection of the thill with the axle of a vehicle to reduce rattling noises.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Trainer, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signaling System for Railways (open access)

Electric Signaling System for Railways

Patent for an electric signaling system for railways which allows the engineer to see whether there is any danger or obstruction ahead on the track, and send and receive signals to and from a distant point. Illustrations included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Lacroix, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Valve for Air-Brake Systems (open access)

Feed-Valve for Air-Brake Systems

Patent for a feed valve for air brake systems, designed to more efficiently refill the air supply of the auxiliary reservoir found in a train. Illustrations included
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Wagner, Godwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Mixing-Machines (open access)

Scraper for Mixing-Machines

Patent for a now and useful Scraper for Mixing-Machines, which is specifically a scraper attachment for the mixing-cylinder wherewith the material that may cling to the inner surface of the cylinder may be scraped off and the mixing operation may be thoroughly performed.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Sliger, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signaling-Lantern. (open access)

Railway Signaling-Lantern.

Patent for a railway-signaling lantern designed with a U-shaped handle for easier handling, and safer signaling, with illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1906
Creator: Moore, Thomas Lindsay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Awl (open access)

Sewing Awl

Patent for a sewing awl. Illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Morgan, John W. & Luckenbach, Louis C.
System: The Portal to Texas History