Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines (open access)

Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines

Patent for a coin controlled feeding apparatus for coin controlled machines. The design is to prevent the use of iron slugs and spurious coins.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Auger. (open access)

Well-Auger.

Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Hutchins, Charles N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for a wheel which joins the spokes to a metal sleeve surrounding the hub of the wheel.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Votaw, Charles Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inkstand. (open access)

Inkstand.

Patent for an inkstand which draws the ink through a stopper (using capillary action) into a font. The stopper prevents "spilling of the ink in the movement or transportation of the inkstand."
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Taber, John C. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter (open access)

Transplanter

Patent for transplanter. This transplanter is designed to keep the roots compacted with the immediate soil around the root system.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Snowden, Lewis Waller
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler or Refrigerator. (open access)

Milk Cooler or Refrigerator.

Patent for an apparatus for cooling milk and other food products without the use of ice.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Suggs, Allen C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spindle-Nut Attachment. (open access)

Spindle-Nut Attachment.

Patent for improvement in spindle-nut by providing “an extension to the spindle-nut, not being a washer in any sense of the word, but to all intents and purposes an integral part of said nut adapted to extend toward the outer end of the axle-box and to hold the same to its seat upon the spindle as efficiently as when the parts were new.” (Lines 35-41) Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Carlton, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer. (open access)

Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer.

Patent for "an improvement in pneumatic cotton-conveyers, particularly with relation to means for putting the exhaust-pipe which leads to the elevator in communication with either of a series of intake-pipes at will and for relieving the partial vacuum caused by the operation of the exhaust-fan at will." (lines 8-14)
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Richmond, George Eustace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Generating Oil-Burner. (open access)

Generating Oil-Burner.

Patent for improvements in “generating oil-burners” by connecting a combination of tubes, pipes and casings to direct and regulate the oil flows to the burner. It can also control the amount of steam to be discharged to properly effect the burning of the oil. Illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Spiller, Philip Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain Drying Means. (open access)

Grain Drying Means.

Patent for a new mechanism for bulk drying grain. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Liles, La Fayette W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter. (open access)

Seed-Planter.

Patent for a seed planter in which the “plows is used in connection with the purpose of opening a furrow to receive the seed and for quickly covering the seed after it has been deposited.” (Lines 15-18) In addition, an auxiliary plow is attached “to work directly in front of the seed tube, as to provide the scattering of the seed and to cause it to be deposited directly into the furrow.” (Lines 29-32) Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Family Record Keeper (open access)

Family Record Keeper

Patent for a family record keeper that could preserve certificates of birth, marriage, and death, in a manner that would protect them from the elements.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Flanagan, Roland A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Well Drill. (open access)

Oil Well Drill.

Patent for a new rotary oil drill with improvements to anchor the drill-pipe, improve oil flow, and prevent blow-outs of the drill-pipe.
Date: July 3, 1903
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Fumigating (open access)

Means for Fumigating

Patent for a means of fumigating.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Cock, Lewis W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Petroleum-Oil-Burner (open access)

Petroleum-Oil-Burner

Patent for an oil burner for providing heat, light, and for cooking or baking. It super heats steam in two steam chambers to generate more heat.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Demory, Alexander F. & Barron, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heating or Cooking Stove (open access)

Heating or Cooking Stove

Patent for a heating or cooking stove.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Spiller, Phillip Samuel & Haldeman, Horace P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for baling press for baling hay,cotton, and the like; is simple, durable and efficient.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Heinrich, Ferdinand, L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Envelop (open access)

Safety-Envelop

Patent for an envelope that cannot be removed without obvious sign of tampering.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Tabler, Jasper N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Abstract-Book for County Records, &c. (open access)

Abstract-Book for County Records, &c.

Patent for a "book leaf or page for abstracting county and like records" (lines 12-14) with illustrations included.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Lutz, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk-Bearing for Disk Plows or Similar Implements. (open access)

Disk-Bearing for Disk Plows or Similar Implements.

Patent for improvement in disk-bearings for disk plows by using a secure substantial bearing, in which it will resist the side strain of cutting the ground, be capable of ready adjustment, and permit the utmost freedom of revolution. (Lines 13-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Hendon, Walter Preston
System: The Portal to Texas History