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Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus.
Patent for a mail pouch transferring apparatus that has a secure attachment to the frame.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring, Weighing, and Registering Machine.
Patent for machine that automatically weighs cotton seed while in transit from the cotton gin or grain from the grain elevator to the mill.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Muirhead, Alfred Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tag Holding Device.
Patent for a device for attaching price tickets or tags to fabric or other goods, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Towler, Mary E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener
Patent for a new type of Hame Fastener that has adjustable hooks attached to it. These adjustable hooks allow for the use on hames that have the lower ends closer together. There are springs on this hame that allows for the hame to be held in any position when places on the collar.
Date:
November 8, 1913
Creator:
Griffin, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat.
Patent for a thermostat that automatically regulates temperatures and is operated "in conjunction with an electric current or the like" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hinson, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Muffler.
Patent for improvements to engine muffler, including noise reduction without accompanying "back-pressure".
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Smoot, Lonnie C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer
Patent for an ice cream freezer that will have independent and removable receptacles that will freeze ice cream into various sizes and shapes in the form of sticks.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Jameson, Roland Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel-Fastening for Cultivators
Patent for new and useful improvements in shovel-fastenings for cultivators. Improvements include incorporating a spring latch in the cultivator foot so that no time is lost and no tools would be needed in replacing cultivator shovels.
Date:
December 18, 1917
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, James M. & Tirey, Grover C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a swing, particularly for children, that provides a foot rest that rises from the floor when a person sits down and includes a back that can be reclined. The particular design is also cheaper and easier to build.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Shaw, John Copeland Miller
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheep-Shears
Patent for sheep shears. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Ascue, Elbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Remedial Appliance.
Patent for a remedial appliance, intended to be worn as a bracelet or an "anklet," through which a person receives medication that he/she needs. Such an appliance is intended to improve treatment through facilitating the application of medication throughout the body.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Quayle, Sidney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Transmission
Patent for improvements in power transmission by inventor Gordon R. Sturgis.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Sturgis, Gordon R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Luggage-Carrier
Patent for improvements on rear folding luggage-carriers for motor cars.
Date:
October 8, 1918
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Monroe C. & Dobbs, Charles S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for rail joints that will remove the need for bolts to secure the chairs. The joints will also allow the chair to be removed from the rail without using tools.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protractor
Patent for a new protractor design that is “particularly to a protractor or gage for use by carpenters in cutting the rafters for a building roof” (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1915
Creator:
Ernest, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Ballast.
Patent for "improvements in methods of making ballast adapted for railway and other uses" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Butler, Henry G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for an oil burner for burning crude petroleum and hydrocarbon oils. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for an oil burner for stoves that can still operate even if there are impurities in the water used to create the steam employed in getting the fuel to burn.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pin-Fastener.
Patent for pin fastener that safely allows for buttons, jewelry and other items to attached to clothes and not pierce the wearer.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Towler, Mary E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher.
Patent for an improvement in drop-pilots or cow-catchers for street or steam-railways to allow the cow-catcher to stay higher above the track and be dropped in an emergency to catch large objects and prevent them from being trapped under the wheels. The improvement also contains a device for raising and lowering the cow-catcher, a mechanism for operating the brakes and whistle interdependently, and a single lever for the operator to use to control the various mechanisms.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for improvements to cotton pickers providing a wheeled machine that will "remove cotton lint from the plants by mechanical means" (lines 15-16) with added new features to construction and operation, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 12, 1912
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene Stiles & Ascue, Elbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Tooth Adjuster.
Patent for a cultivator tooth adjuster that can be set to different angles.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
Kirk, Carrol D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Car Net
Patent for safety car-net to be attached to train freight-cars closing the space between adjacent cars and protecting train workers from falling.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Matthews, Harrison C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History