Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for a headlight that turns with a cars body and will not accidentally turn from bumps.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Bell, Robert A. & McKiel, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hotel-Register. (open access)

Hotel-Register.

Patent for a hotel register cabinet for holding registry sheets with a revolving top.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Duncan, Selden
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music-Indicator. (open access)

Music-Indicator.

Patent for a music indicator that shows the names of the notes on the piano and how to form various chords and scales to assist the user in learning music.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: MacMaster, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Pump-Operating Mechanism

Patent for a mechanical pump operating mechanism that increases capacity.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Linnartz, Hugo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad. (open access)

Railroad.

Patent for a railroad track with guard rails for keeping the trains wheels on the tracks.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Jobe, Seabrome
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Shelving and Display-Cabinet. (open access)

Rotary Shelving and Display-Cabinet.

Patent for a rotary shelf and display cabinet that has a large amount of display space available in it.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Hawkins, Millard F. & Berry, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sign. (open access)

Sign.

Patent for an illuminated sign that uses prism to reflect the light thus reducing the amount of lights needed to illuminate the sign.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Hoag, Harry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Time-Switch. (open access)

Time-Switch.

Patent for a timer for turning on and off electric lights.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Chappel, James Mack
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap. (open access)

Trap.

Patent for a fishing trap box that holds the bait securely and can be used for catching fish or crustaceans.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley (open access)

Trolley

Patent for a trolley that has a secure connection to the trolley line.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Irwin, Walter W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Cabinet. (open access)

Type-Cabinet.

Patent for a type cabinet for storing dating type.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Chapman, Mercer E.
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Heating and Applying Coating Material (open access)

Device for Heating and Applying Coating Material

Patent for a device for heating and applying coating materials, and more particularly for applying asphalt to surfaces, which it is desirable to coat therewith.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Seale, Elbert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for a burner constructed to admit a force of steam or air is sent through the nozzle with assigning to the fuel in fuel reservoir. This invention is used to burn the heavy crude oil.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Nicholson, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, John Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Parcel Carrier Guard for Bicycles (open access)

Parcel Carrier Guard for Bicycles

Patent for improved Parcel-Carrier Guard for bicycles. Specifically the patent helps to prevent contact with the parcel carrier guard and the front wheel.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Apple, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prod-Pole (open access)

Prod-Pole

Patent for care of live stock and particularly the pod poles. This invention is to produce a pod designed to podding the animals when they are loading or unloading for the shipment.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Bishop, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Rail Brace. (open access)

Railway-Rail Brace.

Patent for a new railway-rail brace designed "particularly to be used on curves of rail-way tracks, and which ties the rails as to prevent spreading of said rails" (lines 13-16), including illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Barnes, Ned Eastman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety pipe grip (open access)

Safety pipe grip

Patent for gripping of tubes and cylinders in the devices that are used for drilling or sinking operations. This invention helps for the movement in one direction.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Gist, Felta B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove and Range. (open access)

Stove and Range.

Patent for a compact combination range or stove with "a cabinet for culinary utensils" (lines 12-13). "Compartments are substantially thermally independent of each other" (lines 17-18), due to flue arrangement, reticulated baffle plate and a two-way self locking damper.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Holloway Louis Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper (open access)

Stove-Damper

Patent for stove damper to heat the cabinets evenly and thoroughly, yet allow the cabinets to remain thermally independent of each other.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Holloway, Louis Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Support. (open access)

Support.

Patent for improvements in supports for cots or mosquito nettings with an objective to present a novel and convenient device that is applied in operative positions.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Pewther, Judson C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swing. (open access)

Swing.

Patent for a swing, particularly for children, that provides a foot rest that rises from the floor when a person sits down and includes a back that can be reclined. The particular design is also cheaper and easier to build.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Shaw, John Copeland Miller
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill (open access)

Well-Drill

Patent for well drill that enables its upper end to be struck without disengaging the cable with an objective to provide simple, inexpensive, and convenient use.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Walker, Merit Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History