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Locomotive Brake-Shoe
Patent for a locomotive brake shoe that is "capable of being economically manufactured in a small foundry without the installation of special and elaborate machinery, whereby they may be produced in various repair shops local to different railroad centers" (lines 15-20), including illustrations.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Christensen, Jacob V. C. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Furniture.
Patent for an improved furniture brace that uses wire "for connecting parts of beds, tables and chairs for the purpose of strengthening [...] in which the tightening means lies substantially in the plane of the tightening wires so that there is no twisting action on the tightening means" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date:
May 2, 1916
Creator:
Wittliff, Theodore H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane Stripping Machine.
Patent for a new cane stripping machine, specifically for use in harvesting sugar cane grown particularly in Lousiana and Texas.
Date:
May 7, 1918
Creator:
Piatt, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Camp-Cooker.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a form of camp cooker, or camp stove and particularly appertains to a folding and demountable cooker" (lines 8-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Hanson, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Skimmer
Patent for a boiler-skimmer that assist in preventing external pressures from collapsing the float values. These type of boilers are used in steam locomotives.
Date:
May 20, 1919
Creator:
Schreiber, Norbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center-Piece for Buggy Neck-Yokes
Patent for a center-piece for buggy neck-yokes that strengthens the connection between the yoke and the tongue.
Date:
May 28, 1912
Creator:
Stimson, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle Stopper.
Patent for a bottle stopper made to be an alternative to cork plugs, including illustrations.
Date:
May 7, 1919
Creator:
Patronel, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buttonless Neckband.
Patent for a buttonless neckband eliminates collar buttons "which would have a tendency to discolor the neck of the wearer" (lines 21-22).
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Narmore, Missouri A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines
Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for a "strong, durable, efficient, easy of operation, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 20-23) automatic railway gate. It "is to provide a swinging gate and automatic means of particular construction for operating the gate" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Turvan, Jim O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Catcher
Patent for a machine for removing boll-weevils from growing cotton
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Hitt, Reed R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cameras.
Patent for an improved camera attachment for adding titles to film that prevents the film from being exposed to light except when the title is photographed, with illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Bretz, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fuse Plug
Patent for "improvements in automatic fuse plugs" (lines 12-12). These are "adapted to be successively engaged by a swinging contact arm" (lines 16-17).
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Bowman, Levi M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobile-Footboards.
Patent for a device to attach to an automobile footboard that can swing out and right angles to the automobile and act as a receptacle for packages. The device can be folded under the footboard when not in use.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Woodley, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Thresher.
Patent for a cotton-boll thresher which opens the bolls and separates the cotton. This thresher tries to improve on others by making them "strong, durable, efficient, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 21-23); patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Bryan, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Carbureters.
Patent for improvement in attachments for carbureters that uses a hydro-carbon engine to induce a vertical whirl.
Date:
May 2, 1916
Creator:
Loose, Robert D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Picker
Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Hewitt, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fountain Valve For Locomotives
Patent for improvements to the automatic fountain valves of locomotives.
Date:
May 6, 1919
Creator:
Yeamans, Eugene N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.
Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
Date:
May 27, 1919
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator
Patent for a numbering indicator used to mark the status of stored batteries.
Date:
May 29, 1919
Creator:
Carter, James William, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner
Patent for improvements in oil super heating burners used in locomotives and other large engines that require the creation of steam to propel them. The invention describes many improvements involving the fuel ejection and atomizing processes.
Date:
May 16, 1919
Creator:
Henry, Murray
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner
Patent for a hydrocarbon oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Butler, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter
Patent for a corn and cotton planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Wilks, Chance
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun or Rifle.
Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History