Combintion Tool (open access)

Combintion Tool

Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Burris, William S. & Harris, James E.
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
Casing Water Packer (open access)

Casing Water Packer

Patent for improved casing water-packer used for Artesian wells.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Haas, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters (open access)

Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters

Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Agee, George S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cigar Case (open access)

Cigar Case

Patent for cigar case. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Henry, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle Box. (open access)

Car Axle Box.

Patent for a new and improved car-axle box. This design consists "[i]n an axle-box, the combination, with the box having the wedge-shaped projections and slots, of the cover having pins and wedge-shaped recesses formed between said pins and the top of the lid, whereby the gravity of the cover will wedge it to the box when the pins are without a bearing" (lines 52-58).
Date: June 9, 1885
Creator: Scott, James O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic air-brake for railway-cars. (open access)

Automatic air-brake for railway-cars.

Patent for an improved design of automatic air brakes for use in railway cars.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Canion, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for bale ties that "have the securing members permanently connected" (lines 12-13) and do not have projecting ends that could damage cotton bales or other fibrous materials.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: McFarland, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boring Tool. (open access)

Boring Tool.

Patent for a new boring tool used for digging post holes, shallow wells, and for like purposes. It has a pilot bit and a cutting disk that carries the loosened dirt from the bore to the surface.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Keenan, Michael J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Cotton Gin. (open access)

Boll Cotton Gin.

Patent for an improved boll-cotton gin which gathers the cotton bolls without crushing them or intermingling the product with impurities by separating the seed cotton from the bolls and hulls.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Hopper, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disinfecting Apparatus (open access)

Disinfecting Apparatus

Patent for an improved bottle for the purposes of carefully applying disinfecting fluid. The patent describes and illustrates a bottle that can be sold as-is, with an apparatus that releases the liquid drop by drop to prevent waste.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Peck, Walter H. & Alford, L. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing. (open access)

Gearing.

Patent for improved gear structures for motor vehicles that pull plows or other items across the ground or across roadways.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Coleman, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for improvements on traction-engines to make steering easier especially around short curves, and to decrease the amount of "dead weight" (line 21) of the machine overall.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Cox, Oscar McGruder
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turnstile. (open access)

Turnstile.

Patent for a new turnstile design for use in train cars, "especially adapted for use in so called " pay-as-you-enter " cars." (lines 11-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Lohrberg, Leopold W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism For Steam Engines (open access)

Valve Mechanism For Steam Engines

Patent for useful improvements to the valve mechanism for steam engines. The invention allows an improved means for actuating the slide valve without the use of eccentrics. The valve can also be operated into closed positions at various degrees, and also to reverse the direction of travel of the valve.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Wright, Ed W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Building Implement (open access)

Wire Fence Building Implement

Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Hall, Ed Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch (open access)

Latch

Patent for a "latch of strong and durable construction, designed principally for use in connection with the end gate fastener."
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Nichols, George Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Mechanism (open access)

Variable Speed Mechanism

Patent for a variable speed mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Doebbeling, Almond J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tying Mechanism for Harvesters (open access)

Tying Mechanism for Harvesters

Patent for a tying mechanism for harvesters. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Wheel (open access)

Traction-Wheel

Patent for improved wheel system which provides traction over a variety of surfaces.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Shindler, Robert Conrad
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides. (open access)

Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.

Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1868
Creator: Milner, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer. (open access)

Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer.

Patent for an improvement on a previous patent application (Serial No. 552,724), of which Patterson was an assignee. The improved and simply designed machine has a variety of assets, the main goal being to produce bats of uniformly thick and clean cotton.
Date: June 9, 1896
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tank. (open access)

Tank.

Patent for improvements in the support structure wooden or metal tanks (portable or permanent) though sets of internal support composed of uprights, diagonal brace-rods, transversely curved plates, and tension rods, with descriptions of the structure and illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J., Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History