Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Meier, Hermann
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE. (open access)

AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.

Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Dukesmith, Frank H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, Anderson County sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, sloughs, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: 1905
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Anderson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Anderson County, Texas

Text includes information on history, climate, physiography and geology, soils, agricultural methods, and agricultural conditions. Accompanied by soil map.
Date: 1905
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a wire stretcher, which can stretch and hold a wire for a fence until it is securely fastened to the fence post and is easy to operate.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Dobbs, John & Welborn, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Grinding Valve Seats (open access)

Machine For Grinding Valve Seats

Patent for a simpler machine for Grinding Valve-Seats. This machine relates to the machinery involved in the grinding and finishing of valve seats.
Date: July 28, 1905
Creator: Meyners, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Cultivator or Sulky Plow. (open access)

Wheel Cultivator or Sulky Plow.

Patent for a wheeled cultivator that "may be attached to a wheeled supporting-frame in such a manner that the front end of the plow-beam may be raised and lowered, the construction also providing means for readily detaching the plow-beam from the frame" (lines 12-17) including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1905
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Harrison, Hubbert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaginal Irrigator (open access)

Vaginal Irrigator

Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date: August 2, 1904
Creator: Farrington, Charles O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for a combined nut lock and washer for use on railroad track joints.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Garner, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow And Cultivator (open access)

Plow And Cultivator

Patent for a plow and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: March 21, 1905
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock (open access)

Nut Lock

Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date: August 10, 1909
Creator: Garner, William Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for a nut lock for railroad joints, which includes spring washers.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Garner, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet Seat Catch (open access)

Closet Seat Catch

Patent for a closet seat catch.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Alexander, Francis Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow or Cultivator (open access)

Harrow or Cultivator

Patent for a harrow or cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Cutter, Oliver C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a sliding gate. Illustrations included.
Date: May 8, 1908
Creator: Morgan, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Trolley-Replacer. (open access)

Electrical Trolley-Replacer.

Patent for an electric trolley replacer, which automatically replaces the trolley on the wheel.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Sparks, Hubert Lorenzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Ticket (open access)

Railway Ticket

Patent for a railway ticket. Illustration included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Lee, Robert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows (open access)

Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows

Patent for a spring tooth for cultivators and harrows. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
End Door For Cars (open access)

End Door For Cars

Patent for a new end door on freight train cars including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Goodridge, Ethan A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Operating Device for Air-Break Angle-Cocks. (open access)

Operating Device for Air-Break Angle-Cocks.

Patent for improvements in air-break systems where the angle-cock may be operated by the breakeman from either side of the car without going between the cars. (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 10, 1903
Creator: Riley, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for an oil burner, which atomizes oil through the injection of steam that helps the oil to burn more easily.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Milton, John Foy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History