Seed Screening and Selecting Means for Cotton Gins (open access)

Seed Screening and Selecting Means for Cotton Gins

Patent for a seed screening and selection means for cotton gins. This invention was made as a reference to seed screening and selecting means for cotton gins and its object is to provide for the cleaning of the seed from burs or other deleterious matter or selecting certain batches of seed as may be desired.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Henson, William Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dispensing-Counter (open access)

Dispensing-Counter

Patent is for new way of dispensing and weighing material housed on store shelves. It saves time and labor putting items out.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Griffin, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Discharge-Tube for Fertilizer-Distributors. (open access)

Discharge-Tube for Fertilizer-Distributors.

Patent for a device to evenly dispense fertilizer to soil. This is an agricultural device.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Kerr, Oscar F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculating-Machine (open access)

Calculating-Machine

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in calculating machines. Whereby substantially correct calculations may be registered or recored without using a series of superfluous or immaterial numbers. The machine will round prices up to the nearest cent. For example, $0.024 becomes $0.02 while $0.025 becomes $0.03. Illustrations included.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Hardgrave, Everett J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Rim. (open access)

Collapsible Rim.

Patent for a collapsible rim for wheels, particularly the wheels of motor vehicles, to provide ease in changing tires. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Rogers, Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Excavator. (open access)

Excavator.

Patent for Excavator
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Butterfield, Charles S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt Tightener for Pumps. (open access)

Belt Tightener for Pumps.

Patent for belt tighteners for well pumps which decreases the amount of force necessary to tighten a pump. Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Protector. (open access)

Check-Protector.

Patent for check-protectors that prevent unauthorized tampering with perforating rollers with springs and jaws.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: McCombs, Charles Cleveland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Threshing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Boll Threshing Machine.

Patent for a cotton boll breaking mechanism and a means for breaking cotton bolls which are not opened sufficiently for the cotton to be picked.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Cass, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers. (open access)

Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.

Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Gollmer, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History