Lubricator (open access)

Lubricator

Patent for "lubricators adapted to be used in journal boxes of card, in shaft bearings, and at any other point...to provide a lubricator which will adjust itself automatically to the member to be lubricated and which includes wiping means for removing surplus" (lines 7-10 & 15-18).
Date: December 15, 1914
Creator: Maness, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus. (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus.

Patent for "improvements in refrigerating apparatuses, more particularly to those for the purpose of hardening ice cream" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Mackin, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History