Farm Gate. (open access)

Farm Gate.

Patent for a new and improved farm gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging-gate, the combination of a plate provided with notches upon its upper outer end and connected to the upper end of the inner gate-post, a lever pivoted to the plate and connected with the upper pintle of the gate, a latch pivoted to the lever and extending down through a slot therein to engage with the notches in the plate, and suitable cords and pulleys for operating the latch and lever" (lines 17-26).
Date: July 7, 1885
Creator: Akin, Leonidas T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sectional Column (open access)

Sectional Column

Patent for a sectional column. This invention is known as the Tuscan beaded face column. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Buckley, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generating Apparatus. (open access)

Gas-Generating Apparatus.

Patent for a gas generating apparatus that produces combustible gas.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeding Attachment for Disk Harrows (open access)

Seeding Attachment for Disk Harrows

Patent for "improvements in seeding attachments for disk harrows, whereby the operation of harrowing the stubble and seeding-grain may be accomplished simultaneously" (lines 10-14).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Rogers, Jonathan Judson & Kennedy, Oliver Sylvester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scarifier and Blocker. (open access)

Scarifier and Blocker.

Patent for a scarifier and blocker designed specifically to go around small plants that is mounted on wheels.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Weisenborn, George P. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Illusion-Boat. (open access)

Illusion-Boat.

Patent for a boat ride at amusement parks, which allows the participant to have the illusion of going on a boat ride in the arctic during a thunderstorm.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Jossenberger, Victor E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for an "improvement in car-couplings; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of devices whereby the pin is supported in a raised condition; also in a spring-slide for holding up the link ready for coupling with another car." (lines 13-18)
Date: July 2, 1878
Creator: Gassaway, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ointment-Applier (open access)

Ointment-Applier

Patent for an ointment applier for the insides of a person's body. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Kooken, Robert A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pie-Carrier. (open access)

Pie-Carrier.

Patent for "relatively inexpensive carriers for delivering or shipping pies" (lines 11-12), including one illustration.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Hubig, Simon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress Stuffing Machine (open access)

Mattress Stuffing Machine

Patent for a mattress stuffing machine that holds material to form mattresses, as well as compressing and stuffing the material into ticks.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Woolery, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motive Power. (open access)

Motive Power.

Patent for a new and improved motor. With this design, "[i]t is to be observed that the beam is provided with a series of holes near one end, and the frame is also provided with a corresponding series of apertures, so that by taking out the pin which supports the beam and changing its position the throw of the beam may be regulated at pleasure" (lines 57-63).
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Louthian, Lafayette D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door check. This design is "formed of a single strip of sheet metal, comprising a base provided with a hole or holes for fastening the same in position, and one end bent inwardly and upwardly at an angle to said base to form a spring-catch, and the other end bent upwardly at substantially at a right angle to the base and thence downwardly and outwardly to form a fastening-flange, in line with the base, and a brace to strengthen the stop, said flange being provided with holes and the rubber buffers" (lines 70-80).
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Price, Harry F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freight Gang-Plank. (open access)

Freight Gang-Plank.

Patent for freight gang-planks embodying hinged sections which may be adjusted at any angle with relation to each other so that the upper section may be disposed on a horizontal plane for the purpose of allowing a loaded truck to come to rest and remain immovable until manual or mechanical power is applied to move it.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Simpson, Louis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Davenport. (open access)

Davenport.

Patent for a davenport, which can be used as wardrobe, settee, or bed that includes a wider bed, extensions for head and foot rests, and a larger wardrobe door than previous models.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Hartshorn, Guy C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1899
Creator: Bateman, Talbot O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a acetylene gas generator with an improved valve for sending carbide into the generator which is more efficient and cheaper to make.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Menczer, Samuel A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Display-Banner. (open access)

Design for a Display-Banner.

Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).
Date: July 30, 1895
Creator: Higby, Luther L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Operating Chair (open access)

Dental-Operating Chair

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of dental operating chairs.
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Thresher and Cleaner (open access)

Cotton Thresher and Cleaner

Patent for a cotton thresher and cleaner. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Blain, Frank A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "[t]he frame mounted upon sled-runners and provided with braces, draft pole, and knives, in combination with the rake having check-bar, the sliding bar, connecting bar, and lever, all co-operating" (lines 89-92).
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Woodard, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History