Weeding Device (open access)

Weeding Device

Patent for improving "the construction and increase the efficiency and utility" of "horse or motor drawn weeding devices." (Lines 8-11)
Date: May 31, 1919
Creator: Zetzman, William of Post, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Checking Attachment for Planters (open access)

Checking Attachment for Planters

Patent for a checking attachment for planters that is "easily adjusted to drop seed at various distances" (lines 16-17).
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Sprowl, Wiliam L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
COTTON CLEANER (open access)

COTTON CLEANER

This is a patent for a Cotton Cleaner. This new cotton cleaner is able to use air to rotate the rotors to then separate the dirty cotton from the clean cotton.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Cabrera, Maragarito
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kiln (open access)

Kiln

Patent for improvements to kilns, which include improvements for transferring heat, "burning lime and clay products"(line 11), powdered fuel feeding and preventing unheated air from flowing into the kiln.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Bone, David R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weather-Strip. (open access)

Weather-Strip.

Patent for an improved door weather strip and stop. The device atuates to be both a door stop and a weather strip.
Date: May 28, 1919
Creator: Campbell, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine (open access)

Steam Engine

Patent for an improved steam engine design.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Edwards, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Regulator (open access)

Speed-Regulator

Patent for an inexpensive speed regulator "which can be readily reset manually"(lines 21-22).
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Priming Device (open access)

Priming Device

Patent for a priming device. Intent of the priming device is to provide improvements to priming devices in internal combustion engines.
Date: May 16, 1919
Creator: Donada, Benito J
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process for Treating Cotton-Seed (open access)

Process for Treating Cotton-Seed

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Processes for Treating Cotton-Seed"(lines 6-8), which expresses oil from cotton and neutralizes it with "alkali... and precipitating solid matter"(lines 26-27).
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Fee, Horatio A. & Aeveaenes, Garciea H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Retaining Internal Gear Drive (open access)

Oil Retaining Internal Gear Drive

Patent for automotive drive shaft that retains oil.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Hereford, Adolph P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill. (open access)

Drill.

Patent for a drill that provides an improvement to connecting the drill bit to the shank so they do not become detached or break.
Date: May 22, 1919
Creator: Weathersby, Fred Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Record-Filing Cabinet (open access)

Record-Filing Cabinet

Patent for a record filing cabinet designed to show every record within as well as records of different sizes.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: McCart, Robert, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus

Patent for an improved refrigerating apparatus.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Strange, P. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farming Implement (open access)

Farming Implement

Patent for a farming double plough. This increased a farmers ability to break up the soil and increase productivity.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: Raun, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heater. (open access)

Heater.

Patent for a heater adapted for use in an internal combustion engine for the purpose of assisting the vehicle to start in cold weather.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Pirtle, Claiborne Clinton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ratchet Pipe Cutter (open access)

Ratchet Pipe Cutter

Patent for improvements to a ratchet pipe cutter, which includes an adjustment system to allow for pipes to "approximately quickly adjusted to different sizes of pipe and subsequently automatically moved toward the cutting roller"(lines 11-13).
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Hestand, Rue S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning Machine (open access)

Cotton Cleaning Machine

Patent for an improved cotton cleaning machine.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Brune, A. & Stone, C. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for improvements to the cotton-chopper. This invention outfits the cotton-chopper with a blade that can be moved, either mechanically or with electric power. Previously, the blade was fixed and stationary.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Janes, Henry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slot Angle Bar (open access)

Slot Angle Bar

Patent for a new slot angle bar design.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Rice, E. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impression Cake (open access)

Impression Cake

Patent for a new type of impression cake meant for the creation of dental and other kinds of molds.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Downie, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights (open access)

Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights

Patent for an improved electric light control switch design meant to decrease the rate of energy consumption.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Davis, James Mattison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Plate (open access)

Dental Plate

Patent for an improved dental plate design that fits better in the mouth of the user and allows for easier speaking and eating.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: Glaser, Adolph J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting and Stepping Machine (open access)

Cutting and Stepping Machine

Patent for a cutting and stepping machine meant to replace a human cutter.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Moore, L. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Printing Blue-Prints (open access)

Device for Printing Blue-Prints

Patent for a new type of printing press for the printing of large blue-prints. It is to be a more effective method of printing large objects with a curved plate to provide a more continuous and effective result.
Date: January 30, 1919
Creator: Cooper, Christopher Columbus
System: The Portal to Texas History