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ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS
Patent for an Attachment for Internal Combustion Motors. This new attachment provides many improvements in the regulation of auxiliary air, whether it enters or leaves the internal combustion motor (Shine). It also regulates hot or cold air, or can shut off the air supply entirely (Shine).
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Shine, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Typewriter-Desk.
Patent for typewriter desk which has a compartment with a moveable platform. The platform supports a typewriter, and is "capable of being raised and lowered within the desk so as to position the typewriter for use or non-use as desired". The compartment has a lid, which when in closed position, provides an even writing or resting surface.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Beard, Margurite E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new and useful improved invention of wrenches include both pipe wrenches and general-purpose wrenches particularly.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for animal trap that has a mechanism in connection with spring traps, which is controlled by the closing of the trap, with U-shaped jaws that are spaced slightly apart in order to avoid severing or crushing the animals leg when the jaws of the trap closes. It is meant to prevent the animal from escaping by leaving its leg in the trap.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Manning, James, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Expressing Cage and Press.
Patent for improvements to Oil Expressing Cages and Presses "for the extraction of oil from cotton seed cake or the like" (lines 11-12) that allows for multiple oil cakes and press plates which can be "readily inserted in or removed from the press as occasion requires" (lines 22-23).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for "a novel means for supplying liquid fuel to stoves and other burners and for igniting the fuel from a distant point."
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Peters, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Attachment
Patent for improved attachments for cotton gins. Useful amendments include the improvement of the function of "moving and regulating the feeding of cotton to the gin and the ejection of refuse, hulls and chaff." (lines 13-15). This is accomplished with the addition of a mechanism that "at regular intervals, close the feeder, open the gin breast and discharge the hulls and waste and again close the gin and open the feeder." (lines 37-40).
Date:
September 26, 1922
Creator:
Hooton, Claude A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Oil-Can.
Patent for "an improvement in safety oil cans...to provide in an oil can, [a] mechanism for securely closing the spout, to prevent waste and evaporation..." (lines 9-13).
Date:
July 26, 1921
Creator:
Richey, James David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poultry-Killer.
Patent for a new poultry killing device which is inexpensive and easy to use by anyone to kill poultry quickly and painlessly with or without decapitation. Design shape ensures that the poultry cannot twist their way out of the device.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for railroad ties and especially for a fie made from a log of wood.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Bryant, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint
Patent for a rail joint that is new and improves already existing rail joints specifically scarf joints.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
McDonald, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester
Patent for peanut harvesting machine. It helps pull the peanut plant from the ground easily and aids in bunching them without having to use your hands.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Phillips Willie Orman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rear Sight For Firearms
Patent for rear sight firearm. To help aid in the night with rear vision and align for better direction when used during the night.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kaempfer Effie May Wagner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attatchment For Tractors.
Patent for Draft Attachment For Tractors for the improvement of farming tractors. This invention includes adding machinery to allow interchangeable farming tools for a wide variety of uses.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Gaida, Wale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton-chopper which is steered using the feet, and where the chopping apparatus is adjustable and can be raised or lowered. The chopping apparatus also rotates, and the operator can adjust the speed of rotation. Patent includes illustrations.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Engler, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tool.
Patent for a tool designed for mounting pneumatic tires on wheel rims.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Boone, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor
Patent for improvements in tractors for farm and road work. Improvements include enclosing all working parts within a protecting housing, mounting the motor for rotation, balance the weight, provide a wheel carriage to adjust the width and height, and to provide shifting gears.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Ingram, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Single-Trigger Mechanism for Double-Barrel Guns.
Patent for a new single-trigger mechanism for double-barrel guns in which both barrels fire successively and premature discharge is prevented, including illustrations.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Lindsay, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight
Patent for a headlight that has a dimming function.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Pepple, John Pepple
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a cotton-cleaner with beveled beaters attached to a central shaft. The shape of the beaters and rotation push the cotton outwards and downwards, thus preventing the cotton from clogging or collecting around the central shaft. Patent includes illustrations.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Stacy, Grover C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Front Sight for Firearms.
Patent for a luminous rear sight for firearms of all types. Including Illustration.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kaempfer, Effie May Wagner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Decapitator.
Patent for improvements to decapitator handles which "may be very cheaply produced and will present a broad surface for the hand of the operator which will permit him to exert all necessary pressure without any discomfort to himself" (lines 71-75).
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Training Troop in the Pointing of Guns
Patent for improvements to apparatus to train troops in pointing and aiming various firearms. An electric lamp shines light through a tube to point at the target, with a shutter that can operate simultaneously with the trigger or remain open.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Place, Olney
System:
The Portal to Texas History