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Apparatus for Separating Cotton from its Seed (open access)

Apparatus for Separating Cotton from its Seed

Patent for an apparatus for separating cotton from its seed that uses heat and air to separate the cotton.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Myers, Absalom G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet-Flushing Mechanism. (open access)

Closet-Flushing Mechanism.

Patent for a water closet flushing mechanism, which prevents the water from standing in the toilet bowl where it is liable to freeze in cold weather.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Parker, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin. (open access)

Gin.

Patent for improved cotton gins through the "construction and arrangement of the roll box and the ginning devices" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves (open access)

Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves

Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
Date: October 17, 1911
Creator: Harvey, Fred Brown
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Explosive Oil-Container. (open access)

Non-Explosive Oil-Container.

Patent for a protective screen of refractory filaments for "containers holding inflammable, explosive fluids such as naphtha, benzin, gasolene, etc." (lines 10-12)
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Bradford, William J. D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Insects

Patent for an apparatus for destroying insects. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Crow, William M. & Crow, Levi H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hay-Press (open access)

Automatic Hay-Press

Patent for an automatic hay press that ties three sides of the bale while in the press and the fourth outside of it.
Date: March 14, 1911
Creator: Parvin, William S. & Muse, Warwick J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane. (open access)

Aeroplane.

Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
Date: September 19, 1911
Creator: Andrae, Ernest H.; Andrae, E. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Buckle (open access)

Bale-Band Buckle

Patent for a bale band buckle. Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Brigance, Alice O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Charm. (open access)

Watch-Charm.

Patent for watch charms or badges with "interchangeable emblems" (lines 11-12) to facilitate on-demand charm or badge creation through a separate stock of emblem carriers and the "interchangeable emblems."
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Friedman, Bernhard Z.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle

Patent for a bale-tie buckle.
Date: November 6, 1911
Creator: Armstrong, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Signal and Sign-Displaying Lamp for Vehicles. (open access)

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
Scissors or Shears. (open access)

Scissors or Shears.

Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Allison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window-Scaffold (open access)

Adjustable Window-Scaffold

Patent for an adjustable window scaffold. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Wright, Scott W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ariel Navigation (open access)

Ariel Navigation

Patent for an airplane which will maintain its balance in the air and can be easily maneuvered up and down and around in the air.
Date: May 9, 1911
Creator: Nichols, Jack Lloyd
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine (open access)

Advertising-Machine

Patent for an advertising machine for displaying various advertising cards in a motorized machine that displays all the different cards as it goes around in a circle.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Helm, Virgil L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Wire Mat. (open access)

Flexible Wire Mat.

Patent for a flexible wire mat that is portable, loosely woven to shake out dirt and mud, and which prevents the edges form curling up to trip people.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Shelton, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for "an electric head-light which will adjust the carbons of the arc lamp without the usual vibration" (lines 12-14) and be more durable and efficient.
Date: October 31, 1911
Creator: Dooley, Robert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brush-Cylinder for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Brush-Cylinder for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for brush cylinders for cotton gins which when clamped have no need to be further secured or fastened.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed (open access)

Bed

Patent for a single bed that can be converted into a double bed. Illustrations included.
Date: February 28, 1911
Creator: Lockhart, Samuel R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Registering and Denoting Device and Label-Holder. (open access)

Combined Registering and Denoting Device and Label-Holder.

Patent for a combined registering and denoting device and label holder for use in stores to keep track of how many items are sold and what is left in stock.
Date: December 26, 1911
Creator: Parten, Wilbur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Keller, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History