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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
Automatic Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Ponton, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Cotton-Bales.
Patent for improvement in apparatus for making cotton-bales from continuous sheets or bats by “employing only a single press and which permits the ginning and bat-forming devices to be operated continuously which accumulated the cotton in light and fleecy condition during the covering and removal of the bales, which feeds the cotton from the accumulator to the baling apparatus whenever this is desired.” (Lines 68-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine
Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Symons, Wilson E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Replacer
Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Bowman, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level and Try Square
Patent for a combined level and try square tool. Illustrations are included.
Date:
June 18, 1909
Creator:
Blackwell, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater.
Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Haynie, Brooks
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen
Patent for a well screen to prevent the entrance of sand or gravel into the wall of a deep well.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Stancliff, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Venetian Blind or Shade.
Patent for a mechanism to control the opening and closing of Venetian blinds both by opening the slats or moving the whole blind up or down. It consists of rollers and gears that operate the blinds.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Hughes, Wallace B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Protecting Vegetable Matter
Patent for a new method of protecting "stored vegetable matter, particularly corn, from the ravages of insects, especially the weevil." (Lines 9-11)
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Koy, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preserving Apparatus
Patent for a preserving apparatus. This invention is designed to impregnate articles of food with preservatives or saccharine substance for the use of making catsups, nut syrups, fruit candy, and other like items. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Holden, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Can
Patent for an oil can that prevents flames from going beyond the spout of the can and blocks gases from coming out of the can while still allowing the oil to be easily poured out.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Harmon, William Ellis & Goodpasture, Thomas Boisarth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Embroidery Attachment for Sewing-Machines
Patent for pressing device of sewing machine that will be in operative engagement with the needle to enable efficient stitching and embroidery work.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Moore, Franklin O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Can
Patent for an oil can. This design is a non-explosive air vented for pouring can. Illustration included.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Demory, Alexander F. & Suhm, Carl J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Pedal.
Patent for a piano pedal made of one piece of cast metal to avoid the problem of loose connections between parts over time and which goes in a smaller hole in the bottom of the piano to prevent mice or dust from entering inside the piano.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for improvement in draft-equalizer “to drive a plurality of animals abreast, and is arranged so that neither of the animals need travel upon ploughed ground. It is also designed to obviate the usual unnecessary looseness of the draft connections and to provide for an adjustable tension upon the connection between the opposite equalizing-bars.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Shipman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator Door and Catch.
Patent for elevator doors and catches by creating a device which can make the elevator door opened and closed automatically. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
McNaught, Ira S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History