Resource Type

Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars (open access)

Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars

Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date: July 8, 1890
Creator: McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Destroying Insects (open access)

Apparatus For Destroying Insects

Patent for an apparatus for destroying boll weevils on cotton. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Jones, Albert Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects. (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Morrow, James Morton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Weevils. (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Weevils.

Patent for an apparatus for destroying weevils and moths, infesting corn, peas, hay, sweet potatoes, beans, and the like, when stored. The apparatus consists of a container with an improved means of distributing heat to the contents in which the weevils and moths are found.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Kasmeier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for elevating and cleaning seed cotton
Date: March 5, 1900
Creator: Reynolds, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses (open access)

Apparatus For Making Mattresses

Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Woolery, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Heating and Illuminating Gas (open access)

Apparatus for Manufacturing Heating and Illuminating Gas

Patent for an apparatus for manufacturing heating and illuminating gas. Illustration included.
Date: July 19, 1910
Creator: Wynne, Milton P. & Wagley, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Silos and the Like. (open access)

Apparatus for Molding Silos and the Like.

Patent for an apparatus of simple structure that allows for the easy adjustment and manipulation of parts. It is "used for molding silos and similar structures from concrete cement material" (lines 10-12).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Atkins, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Obtaining a Vacuum. (open access)

Apparatus for Obtaining a Vacuum.

Patent for a new and improved vacuum. This design utilizes a liquid pump, plates, tubes and valves to make "about as perfect a vacuum . . . as can be obtained by an ordinary pump" (lines 53-55).
Date: July 27, 1880
Creator: Ward, Lyman Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Producing Ammoniacal Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Producing Ammoniacal Gas.

Patent for a new and improved refrigerator and ice machine. This design "consists in an improved construction, whereby the gas is relieved of its moisture before entering the condenser, a better apparatus is obtained, and repairs are facilitated and cheapened" (lines 12-16).
Date: July 21, 1885
Creator: Lee, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction (open access)

Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction

Patent for an eye testing device that has a movable lens, a measuring device for correction, and two different cards with test type on them which are fed into the machine during testing for astigmatism and myopia, presbyopia, and hyperopia to determine the level of correction needed in glasses.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Bahn, Gustavus Adolphus
System: The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ICE. (open access)

APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ICE.

Patent for "a new and improved Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice" (lines 3-4)
Date: July 13, 1880
Creator: Zilker, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber. (open access)

Apparatus for Treating Timber.

Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date: July 11, 1905
Creator: Gerhard, Philip H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arc Lamp (open access)

Arc Lamp

Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Gaston, E. James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp. (open access)

Arc-Lamp.

Patent for an arc lamp that features a spring operated clutch mechanism for the upper electrode.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Williams, Theron H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Armored Tread for Pneumatic Tires (open access)

Armored Tread for Pneumatic Tires

Patent for an armored tread pneumatic tires to protect from punctures. Illustrations included.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Sims, Bona
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel (open access)

Artificial Fuel

Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
Date: July 19, 1904
Creator: Thomas, Adelaide M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth (open access)

Artificial Tooth

Patent for an artificial tooth that is better able to anchor to the mouth plate.
Date: July 5, 1918
Creator: Dee, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Atomizer. (open access)

Atomizer.

Patent for improvements in atomizers or instruments for distributing powders or liquids in which it provided “provision for closing the exit-passage and preserve the strength of the medicated powders or fluid and permit of the carrying of the same within the body of the device without danger of spilling.” (Lines 17-21) The rubber bulb is detachable and is used as a powder-box or as a bottle for fluid. Illustration is included.
Date: July 21, 1891
Creator: Robinson, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Broadcast Headers. (open access)

Attachment for Broadcast Headers.

Patent for harvesting machines that provisions for adjustable attachments and elevator mechanisms used to head maize or similar grain crops.
Date: July 28, 1920
Creator: Price, Filmore M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Converting Motor-Propelled Vehicles into Tractors. (open access)

Attachment for Converting Motor-Propelled Vehicles into Tractors.

Patent for a device which attaches a "tractor which can be used to draw plows, harrows, cultivators, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural implements" (lines 12-17) to motor vehicles, thus converting the motor vehicle into a tractor.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Wynne, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weempe, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators &c (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators &c

Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for cultivators.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: Janosek, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Object-Finders. (open access)

Attachment for Object-Finders.

Patent for a "new and useful attachment for the object finder of a camera" (lines 9-10) with adjustable configuration, including illustrations.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Lawson, Harry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History