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Cattle-Guard
Patent for an improved cattle guard with two parts that is adapted to specifically fit either inside the railroad tracks or alongside them.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Fisher, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Pump
Patent for an air pump designed to have a strong cylinder and be able to equal quantities of air upon both the upward and downward motion of the piston.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Keating, P. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Buffing Inner Tubes and the Like.
Patent for a more efficient and adjustable machine to buff inner tubes and other fabrics.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Hibbs, Cassell D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interliner for Tires
Patent for a liner that goes inside of an inner tube that is inside of a pneumatic tire. The device works to help slow flats in tires and improve the structure of a tire.
Date:
October 7, 1919
Creator:
McDonald, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a windmill with vanes that can compensate for varying wind speeds without being damaged by high winds.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Ochoa, Victor Leaton
System:
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Trap
Patent for an improvement on traps. This trap is primarily insect and pest control, meant for ants and flies.
Date:
October 17, 1919
Creator:
Miller, William B.
System:
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Well-Cleaner.
This invention relates to an improved well cleaner, and has for its principal object to provide a device of this kind adapted to be positioned in a well casing to direct a volume of air into the casing for cleaning the valves and straining elements thereof. A further object of the invention is to provide an automatic means for sealing the cleaner for holding the fluid within the well casing, against back pressure, during the cleaning operation. (Lines 8-19)
Date:
October 18, 1919
Creator:
Sargent, Lemuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Store Furniture
Patent for a piece of furniture that can hold rolls wrapping paper of various size. The rolls are contained in a device that rotates and allows the user to select and easily pull paper from roll.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Nicks, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Rotating Earth-Drill Bits.
Patent for a mechanism for rotating earth-drill bits that introduces an up and down motion.
Date:
October 7, 1919
Creator:
Nippert, Worley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Heater
Patent for tool heaters "adapted to heat a soldering iron by gas" (lines 9-10) to increase the heat applied to the tool, including illustrations.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Juergens, Ernest
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring, Weighing, and Registering Machine.
Patent for machine that automatically weighs cotton seed while in transit from the cotton gin or grain from the grain elevator to the mill.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Muirhead, Alfred Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for improvements to liquid or fluid related pumps. This improvement will allow for a free flow of liquid without getting stuck, sticky, or full of sediment.
Date:
October 11, 1919
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool Holder.
Patent for a device to hold a tool with a beveled edge against an emery wheel for the purpose of sharpening. The tool holder can be adjusted and used for multiple tool types.
Date:
October 7, 1919
Creator:
Quillin, Alphonso L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Dish.
Patent for a toy dish that is lightweight, attractive, durable, and cheap to manufacture. The design utilizes celluloid coverings.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projecting-Machine.
Patent for improvements to a projector that relate to advertising. The inventor references adjustments to a previous patent, No. 1069521 from August 5, 1913. Adjustments include making the device more accurate and reliable, and to adapt it to be able to display opaque surfaces, postcards, and other printed items during any time of day. Additionally, the revoluble slide magazine has a mechanism that allows it to operate continuously without assistance from the operator.
Date:
October 7, 1919
Creator:
Bernard, Oscar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center Rail for Key-Actions.
Patent for an easily adjustable, simple, and durable center rail for key actions in pianos which does not require chiseling holes.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Swallow, Oscar L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Converting Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus that can be built at moderate cost, which will enable a high rate of commercially efficient work to reduce "the specific gravity of various grades of hyrdo-carbon oils, especially those of a semi-refined character" (lines 22 - 24).
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Adams, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steering-Gear.
Patent for a new and improved steering-gear. A simplistic and inexpensive design that will prevent the transfer of shocks to the steering wheel when traveling in a straight line.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene Stiles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun.
Patent for an artillery gun which can be moved in any direction due to improvements in its base.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Collier, William Reid
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Spacer.
Patent for improvement on tie-spacers when loaded on trucks for the process of creosoting ties. Allowing for treating fluid to flow between all sides of each tie when loaded, including illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Sommerlatte, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unloading and Feeding Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in Unloading and Feeding Apparatus, which improves the handling of fodder in a simple, practical, and cost effective way.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Pierson, Ludvig B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Structure
Patent for a tire structure that eliminates circumferential differences and also renders a simpler, less expensive model for tire construction.
Date:
October 7, 1919
Creator:
Smith, Jesse G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a modification of a plow that improves ease of use. Additionally the plow adds wings that allow plowing of soil at different angles.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Richardson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sampling Device
Patent for a machine that will remove samples from a well during drilling operations.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Dodds, Redus D.
System:
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