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Adjustable Hoe (open access)

Adjustable Hoe

Patent for improvement in "the construction of hoes and to provide a simple, practical, and inexpensive hoe, of strong and durable construction." (lines 11-13) including illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1915
Creator: Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids. (open access)

Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids.

Patent for a pneumatic lift that maintains the air pressure needed to effectively move liquid through a pipe.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Controller for Cotton Trampers (open access)

Automatic Controller for Cotton Trampers

Patent for an automatic controller of cotton tramplers intended to improve piston performance and reduce need for attendant intervention.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Troy W. Sparks
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Pump. (open access)

Air Pump.

Patent for improvements in air pumps pertaining to their ability to inflate pneumatic tires.
Date: May 25, 1915
Creator: Messerli, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle

Patent for a bale-tie buckle which can be fastened quickly. The bale-tie buckle "can be economically manufactured," is "capable of resisting enormous pressure," and "can be quickly and easily placed on the bands or ties."
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products. (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products.

Patent for a new "method for burning all of the products usually known as "waste products" and to eliminate the fumes and poisonous vapors." (lines 27-30) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Jansen, Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressing Apparatus. (open access)

Air-Compressing Apparatus.

Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Building Circular Walls and Means for Adjusting the Apparatus. (open access)

Apparatus for Building Circular Walls and Means for Adjusting the Apparatus.

Patent for a "scaffold adjusting apparatus, and particularly to means for elevating and lowering scaffolds for building circular wills or silos, circular tanks, smoke stacks, and similar circular walls "(lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Nash, Alexander Q.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inductance Device for Wireless Electrical Signaling (open access)

Inductance Device for Wireless Electrical Signaling

Patent for device to "receive messages transmitted in the form of dots, dashes or spoken words through space" (lines 16-17)
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Lorenz, Charley O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump (open access)

Air-Pump

Patent for an automobile air pump that can be power driven from a car motor. This pump can be driven from the rear wheel of a car.
Date: July 15, 1915
Creator: Causey, Thomas S. & Kelley, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto power transmitting jack (open access)

Auto power transmitting jack

Patent for auto power transmitting jack and it uses.
Date: March 29, 1915
Creator: Adolf F. Johnson, of El Campo, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment for Lister-plows (open access)

Colter Attachment for Lister-plows

Patent for a colter attachment (triangular blade used on lister plows), by capitalizing on parts that should already exist on the plow.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Mosely, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Converting Motor-Propelled Vehicles into Tractors. (open access)

Attachment for Converting Motor-Propelled Vehicles into Tractors.

Patent for a device which attaches a "tractor which can be used to draw plows, harrows, cultivators, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural implements" (lines 12-17) to motor vehicles, thus converting the motor vehicle into a tractor.
Date: July 20, 1915
Creator: Wynne, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Yoke. (open access)

Cattle-Yoke.

Patent for a cattle yoke which enables the yoke to be attached to a cow's head to prevent grazing from other side of the wire fence.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Carr, Jessie D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antispreading Attachment for Rails. (open access)

Antispreading Attachment for Rails.

Patent for the improvement of antispreading attachments for rails. The attachments provide a structure comprising a span tie located between the rails and is adapted to connect with dogs, one dog being connected with each of the rails.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Simpson, Mary E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Torpedo. (open access)

Aerial Torpedo.

Patent for an aerial torpedo. This device is well suited for automatic targeting without help from man.
Date: August 31, 1915
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: McCarroll, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery Connector (open access)

Battery Connector

Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Hale, Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock Attachment (open access)

Clock Attachment

Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1915
Creator: Moore, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plate Retaining Device (open access)

Plate Retaining Device

Patent for a license plate holder for automobiles.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Stafford, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel Buffer (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel Buffer

Patent for an improved construction for a vehicle-wheel buffer which eliminates deterioration of its components found in ordinary type buffer. This invention implements an anti-friction mounting which allows the buffer to rotate freely.
Date: February 25, 1915
Creator: Kettler, Martin F.; M. F. Kettler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ax-Sharpener (open access)

Ax-Sharpener

Patent for an ax sharpener that can be attached to and removed from an ax head.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Wilson, Friend A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Cotton Device. (open access)

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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Finger-Shield. (open access)

Finger-Shield.

Patent for a new finger protection device which may be utilized in needlework.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Morris, Homer B.
System: The Portal to Texas History