Torpedo Receptacle (open access)

Torpedo Receptacle

Patent for a torpedo receptacle. This invention is an improvement for use with railroad lanterns. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1903
Creator: Barnett, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase (open access)

Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase

Patent for combined compositor's stick and type chase. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and feeder. It is designed with an intermediate of a chute and cotton-gin to feed the cotton to the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Seward, Marion F. & Seward, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a combination lock that is able to be changed at will due to its arrangement of parts.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type (open access)

Type

Patent for type. This inventions is for the body of type used in printing presses. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Holder (open access)

Type-Holder

Patent for a device to hold type, so it can set and be delivered.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
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
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Niggli, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operated Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Fender, John Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compositor's Stick (open access)

Compositor's Stick

Patent for a compositor's stick. This invention is for the improvement of the mechanism for setting type and printing.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Floor Construction. (open access)

Fireproof Floor Construction.

Patent for fireproofing floor construction in a durable and huge manner. The parts that support and brace the flooring with v-shaped anchors and concrete walling, assist with fireproofing the floor.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Shield, Patrick T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
BLIND-STOP (open access)

BLIND-STOP

Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date: August 18, 1903
Creator: Koenig, Charles Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Neck Yoke Counter Stop for Artillery Carriages (open access)

Neck Yoke Counter Stop for Artillery Carriages

Patent for a neck yoke counter stop for artillery carriages. This invention is an improvement for counter-stop adapted for the limber-pole of artillery field-carriages.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Wenke, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for Oil Burner
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater. (open access)

Water-Heater.

Patent for a water heater for use in small spaces. This water heater heats water rapidly and is less costly as well as smaller than a standard boiler.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Damm, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Confection Dipping Machine (open access)

Confection Dipping Machine

Patent for a confection dipping machine. "This inventions relates to machines for coating bonbons, drop-cores, caramels, nuts, and the like with a superficial coating of confection material" (line 8-11_ illustrations included.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Jenner, Edward J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling (open access)

Thill Coupling

Patent for a thill coupling. This invention is designed to be placed between the rear end of the thill and the connection of the thill with the axle of a vehicle to reduce rattling noises.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Trainer, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Sash-Lock (open access)

Improvements in Sash-Lock

Patent for an improvement on sash locks or fasteners for a window frame to allow two sashes to be controlled by one sash.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Miller, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music Leaf Turner (open access)

Music Leaf Turner

Patent for a music leaf turner.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Hutchinson, Searcy T. & McNeir, Forest W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow produced as "a simple, inexpensive, and durable implement for plowing out stalks, particularly cotton-stalks, without turning the ground or covering the stalks, and arranged to prevent the stalks from being precipitated in front of the standard, and thereby impeding the movement of the plow. (lines 9-14)
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: Lassen, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel (open access)

Artificial Fuel

Patent for artificial fuel.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Russi, Charles & Cadena, Celedonio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Touch-Regulator for Pianos (open access)

Touch-Regulator for Pianos

Patent for a touch regulator for pianos.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Goggan, Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Bateman, Talbot O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inside Pipe-Clamp (open access)

Inside Pipe-Clamp

Patent for an inside pipe-clamp.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Masterson, Bernard W.
System: The Portal to Texas History