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Combined Signal and Sign-Displaying Lamp for Vehicles.
Patent for a combined signal and sign-displaying lamp for vehicles that uses only one light to illuminate all the sections and allows for easy interchanging of number plates.
Date:
October 10, 1911
Creator:
Puckett, Almor Manor
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1909
Volume provides a summary of the progress of each agricultural experiment station. Also includes statistics, discussions of foreign investigations, and selected studies.
Date:
October 10, 1910
Creator:
United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Centrifugal Suction Fan
Patent for improvements made towards in suction fans that are found in cotton picking machines to improve efficiency. The primary improvements detailed in the patent describe and illustrate an improved design of the casing inside the fan to prevent damage to the cotton or the seed once they are sucked into the fan, among other design improvements.
Date:
March 10, 1914
Creator:
Meier, John & Miller, T. S., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor
This document is a patent for the invention of the Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor. According to its inventor Frank M. Bell, the object of this mechanism is to fire aerial projectiles or torpedoes more accurately at their intended target. This mechanism can be called an anti-observation balloon/zeppelin weapon and it would see some usage by the Allied air forces during this conflict.
Date:
October 10, 1916
Creator:
Bell, Frank M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachement for Cultivators.
Patent for an attachment for cultivators. The attachment allows for quick attachment and removal of the machinery.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Gage, James J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Electrical Separation
Patent for a new Process of Electrical Separation. The process relates to "electrostatic separation, and particularly to the charging of particles electrically to affect their different capacities of receiving such charge." (Line 12-15)
Date:
November 10, 1914
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for the ability to attach one or more plows simply and inexpensively so users can customize their plowing methods as needed.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Welch, Drew O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Picket-Fence Machine.
Patent for a picket fence machine for a fence that can be built of wire where normal fence pickets are woven and spaced an equal distance apart, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
March 10, 1914
Creator:
Purdy, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Cotton Device.
Patent for an apparatus to clean cotton and feed it into a cotton gin, including illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Dickerson, Eustice E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Impeller-Pump.
Patent for an impeller pump with separate sections and parts that can be connected together. The line of pipe of can be withdrawn without removing the head, and there are measures to keep the liner in operative position. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 10, 1914
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaporative Cooler.
Patent for an evaporative cooler/refrigerator that is cooled by the evaporation of water with ventilating tubes to maintain the air condition in shelves. Water is adapted to move through a "cloth, flowing downwardly therethrough and being evaporated therefrom to thereby effectually cool the articles disposed within the refrigerator" (lines 28-31). This patent includes illustrations
Date:
March 10, 1914
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food.
Patent for stock food that can be perfectly rationed, useful for feeding cattle and hogs, and useful for building up working stock. It is inexpensive and will not deteriorate.
Date:
March 10, 1914
Creator:
Eldridge, T. William.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airship of improved construction, which allows for the operator to change their positions to propel, raise, lower and steer the ship.
Date:
November 10, 1914
Creator:
John William Oman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Finely-Divided Fuel.
Patent for an improved apparatus for burning finely divided fuel. It admits air (during combustion) at various access points to vary the air that is confined within the mechanism.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Irish, David J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp.
Patent for an arc lamp that features a spring operated clutch mechanism for the upper electrode.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Williams, Theron H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact cleaning apparatus that tends to a variety of receptacles and dishes.
Date:
October 10, 1916
Creator:
Peña, Max & Cruz, Patricio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Stand.
Patent for a barrel-stand "designed to support a barrel or other like dispensing receptacle" (line 10) to be tilted for pouring and can be held in a tilted or other fixed position.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Maier, Felix
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeration and Subirrigation for Promoting Vegetation
Patent for large terminal that can be implanted into the ground, which can supply air and moisture into the surrounding soil to stimulate growth of vegetation.
Date:
October 10, 1916
Creator:
Rife, Archibald H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.
Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.
Date:
December 10, 1918
Creator:
Cass, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.
Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date:
September 10, 1917
Creator:
Cole, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Brazos County, Texas
Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Brazos County, Texas.
Date:
July 10, 1916
Creator:
Veatch, J. O. (Jethro Otto) & Waldrop, C. S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Jefferson County sheet
Map displays soil types along with bayous, canals, creeks, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, dams, swamps, towns, roads, ferries, railroads, oil reservoirs, refineries, pumping stations, and ranches. Includes legend, symbols, and soil profiles.
Date:
November 10, 1915
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Brazos County sheet
Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, farms, towns, churches, schools, colleges, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Gives soil profiles (3 feet deep).
Date:
July 10, 1916
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Jefferson County, Texas
Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Jefferson County, Texas.
Date:
November 10, 1915
Creator:
Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Schoenmann, L. R. (Lee Roy Adolph); Bushnell, T. M. (Thomas Mark) & Maxon, E. T.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History