Bale Tie Securing Device (open access)

Bale Tie Securing Device

Patent for device that will replace destroyed bale ties.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game. (open access)

Game.

Patent for a four-player checker game and a hinged gameboard to play it on which provides storage for the checkers when folded.
Date: March 27, 1917
Creator: Mason, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check. (open access)

Door-Check.

Patent for a door check that will be able to hold the door in any desired position to which it may be moved and it will prevent the slamming or sudden closing of the door.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Winfrey, Edgar M. & Pike, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Threshing Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Threshing Machine.

Patent for an improvement to cotton-threshing machines that threshes "the cotton crop by extracting and separating the cotton locks from the bolls and stalks" (lines 13-15). This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Patterson, Warren A. & Kemp, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Container. (open access)

Container.

Patent for new improved containers adapted for the shipment of eggs, including illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Hall, Cyrus M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Elevator. (open access)

Automobile-Elevator.

Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Wright, Virgil Tilden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures. (open access)

Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.

Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Sealing Tire-Punctures and the Like. (open access)

Composition for Sealing Tire-Punctures and the Like.

Patent for sealing tire punctures consisting of the extract obtained from boiling guayule and candelilla plants in water to which is added asbestos and fullers' earth.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Garza, Ricardo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Signal (open access)

Automobile Signal

Patent for a signal of the nature indicated including a signal arm controlled in novel manner and movable from one position to another, the signal arm being inoperative in one position, and when moved to the other position being visible to other vehicles and pedestrians both in front and in rear, to warn them of the intention of the operator driver to turn.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Deats, Oliver George
System: The Portal to Texas History