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Price-Tag.
Patent for an improved price tag that includes not only the price information, but also "at a glance a stock record and a cost record and provides space for making notations and writing other information" (lines 13-16) for the use of a store clerk's reference.
Date:
April 20, 1920
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Staple-Setter.
Patent for a staple-setter that can be more efficiently utilized for paper board boxes, specifically boxes that are used by florists.
Date:
June 15, 1920
Creator:
Suchy, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon burners that is inexpensive and can take refined oil or heavy crude oil and make it useable as fuel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
St. Wrba, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose Reel
Patent for a hose reel that makes water easily available to the people in a building that has caught fire and is more easily maneuverable.
Date:
August 24, 1920
Creator:
Hamner, Edward M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Hydrocarbon-Burners" (lines 6-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 10, 1920
Creator:
Wynne, William P. & Wynne, James Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for an improved hydrocarbon burner, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Critchett, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hulling-Machine
Patent for hulling nuts of all sizes including peanuts. A hopper feeds the nuts in to rollers and the shells fall out the bottom while the nuts go down a chute to be collected.
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Sparks, James N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Huller
Patent for hullers for removing hulls of shells for seeds or other similar products. The invention "is of especial utility in hullers for cottons seeds." However, it is noted that a cotton seed huller is only one adaptation of the invention.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A. & Highland Gee Vardell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper.
Patent for improvements to the stalk-chopping machine that will strip the ears from the corn while also chopping the corn stalk into bits to fertilize the field.
Date:
January 27, 1920
Creator:
Bartz, Adolph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Standing Valve
Patent for a Standing Valve. This standing valve is designed to improve the way the fluids pump through oil and water wells. it also includes an improvement in the way the standing valve is secured to the wells. The new valve can also be easily replaced because of the materials it is composed of.
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Adams, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hot-Air Mixer
Patent for a device that will create hot air to be delivered to the manifold of gas-powered engines in motor vehicles when the operator pushes a plunger that will open an intake valve.
Date:
March 9, 1920
Creator:
Ingraham, Jerome H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spear
Patent for a spear that is used to help withdraw or remove pipes that may get stuck in wellbores.
Date:
April 20, 1920
Creator:
Gray, Ellsworth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for a spark aresster that is designed to prevent the discharge of sparks from a flue, particularly flues for small stoves used in army tents.
Date:
January 27, 1920
Creator:
Ashby, Bert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Recorder.
Patent for recording instruments to use in connection with automobiles to record the speed of conveyance during the period of travel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Bowdish, Harry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spoke and Tire for Automobile and Truck Wheels.
Patent for a new spoke and tire for automobile and truck wheels, with illustrations.
Date:
January 27, 1920
Creator:
Collier, Aaron
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Attachment.
Patent for a turning plow attachment which prepares the soil to receive seed, whereby reducing labor.
Date:
March 6, 1920
Creator:
Miller, James Archie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump Piston
Patent for an "Improvement in Pump-Pistons" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
January 13, 1920
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Prints on Metal.
Patent for a new way to print negatives directly on sensitized metal by dying the print, removing the dye stains, burnishing the "high lights," polishing the dye print and finally lacquering in order to make permanent. This gives the image a bas-relief effect.
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Snow, Philo V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material.
Patent for an improved tire patch material combination and production process, which results in less water absorption and better adhesion to the tire.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Duffy, Clarence O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pusher Attachment for Tractors.
Patent for an improved tractor attachment that is efficient to operate. The attachment can be fixated to connect both traditional tractors and grain headers.
Date:
August 24, 1920
Creator:
Records, Paul A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that improves the type of plow employing "a moldboard and plowpoint or share bolted to a standard" (lines 9-11), with illustrations. This patent improves upon previous patents numbered 974,675 and 974,676 issued to the same inventor on November 1, 1910.
Date:
January 6, 1920
Creator:
Kelly, Robert Marvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Piston.
Patent for an improved pump piston used to pump oil from deep wells. The main improvement in this piston is that it is less susceptible to damage from sand or sediment by keeping sediment out of the piston valve, thus preventing it from accruing any long term damage that may render the piston irreparable. This design is also capable of fixing any wear due to sand or grit without removing the piston from the well.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Coulson, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toothbrush.
Patent for a new and improved toothbrush that has a rotary brush which turns while the user brushes it back and forth over their teeth and a hollow stem that sends water to the brush while it is in use.
Date:
November 2, 1920
Creator:
Simon, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Stretching and Securing Wire.
Patent for a "new method of stretching and securing wire" (line 6).
Date:
April 27, 1920
Creator:
Coulter, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History