Adjustable Colter-Clamp (open access)

Adjustable Colter-Clamp

Patent for a colter clamp that may be fastened to a plow beam. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Allin, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Retainer (open access)

Buggy-Top Retainer

Patent for a buggy top retainer designed to keep the top of a buggy stable as it is driving over rough terrain. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Allison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Support (open access)

Bicycle Support

Patent for a bicycle support, which can be attached to different bicycles and carried in the pocket.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Moss, Eric
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling (open access)

Coupling

Patent for a coupler designed to connect the pipes of train cars. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Mc.Millan, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Locking and Releasing Device for Mining-Cars (open access)

Automatic Locking and Releasing Device for Mining-Cars

Patent for an automatic locking and releasing device for mining carts and cages. Illustrations included.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Stroope, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support. (open access)

Buggy-Top Support.

Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Mason, Everett H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shears And Knife (open access)

Combined Shears And Knife

Patent for a knife attached to shears.
Date: June 26, 1900
Creator: Fulks, Fredrick F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bake-Oven (open access)

Bake-Oven

Patent for "an oven through which a current of cool or heated air may be passed to maintain the same at a desired temperature for either purposes of baking, evaporating, drying or roasting substances therein, as may be found desirable" (lines 10-15).
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Turner, Robert W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Apparatus. (open access)

Cleaning Apparatus.

Patent for a cleaning apparatus, which cleans objects by blasting air across them and has an air cleaning system for use after the cleaning is done.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support (open access)

Buggy-Top Support

Patent for a supporter for the top of a buggy. Illustrations included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Putman, William C.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auger-Bit (open access)

Auger-Bit

Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Harris, Lawrence P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level and Try Square (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bonnet (open access)

Bonnet

Patent for a bonnet. Illustrations included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Hancock, Mollie
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bib. (open access)

Child's Bib.

Patent for improvement in children’s bibs, by providing bibs with a pocket at its lower end to catch any food or drink that might be dropped or spilled, thereby preventing soiling of the clothes and the carpet or floor. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box Stand or Bracket (open access)

Box Stand or Bracket

Patent for a pivoting box and/or box stand for use in stores.
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Luensmann, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catamenial Sack (open access)

Catamenial Sack

Patent for a catamenial sack. This invention is a "catamenial sacks or shields and the object is to provided such a device which will be cleanly and sanitary in effect, which is pliable and easily and comfortably conformable to the form of the wearer" (lines 8-13). Illustration included.
Date: June 8, 1909
Creator: Frommann, Franklin A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: York, Edward Jackson; Howze, Walter L. & Caldwell, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bucksaw. (open access)

Bucksaw.

Patent for "a new and useful improvements in bucksaws to provide a simple construction to secure the saw-blade detachably in position and to tighten the same to any degree of operation." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Henry, Hugh
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Wilson County

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Wilson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Wilson County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Wilson County, Texas.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Lyman, W. S. & Schroeder, Frank C.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that provides an apparatus in which the parts may be readily detached for convenience in making repairs.
Date: June 5, 1908
Creator: Carl, Reinhold A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History