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Battery-Mud-Extracting Device.
Patent for improvement of Battery-Mud-Extracting Devices where the mud may be removed without disassembling the battery or displacing of the electrode plates.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Irwin, Samuel D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railroad Level and Gage.
Patent for a device that combines a railroad level and a railroad gauge. This invention provides a compact tool that determines the condition of tracks as to level and gauge.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Fuller, Benjamin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card Holder
Patent for card holders meant to help better display business cards and other forms of advertisement on surfaces such as windows.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Hill, L. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chopping Attachment.
Patent for a chopping attachment for a cultivator. The attachment has an adjustable height in order to cut shorter and taller crops.
Date:
March 17, 1919
Creator:
Chenault, George N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a knee pad to be used by berry or cotton pickers, or other workers that are often in a kneeling position. The knee pad consists of a frame made of "one piece of spring wire of rather coarse gage, a roller revolubly attached to the front end of the frame, and cloth or canvas stretched across the frame" (lines 23-27). The cloth is easy to remove and replace.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Holsey, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen Washer and Perforator.
Patent for a device that is used to wash a screen set in an oil well and perforate the pipe the screen is attached to.
Date:
March 25, 1919
Creator:
Wilkirson, Aaron L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade-Operation-Lever.
Patent for an invention that provides a simple and relatively inexpensive means for operating window shades without involving a spring roller.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
Lee, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for improving a tire by providing new form of tread-holding device and using a resilient metal band encircling the tire.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Allan, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum-Distributer for Internal-Combustion Engines.
Patent for "improvements in Vacuum-Distributers for Internal-Combustion Engines". More precisely "an improvement in 'vacuum-energized make-and-break spark-plug". This particular vacuum-distributer would aid in lubricating the working parts and a "breather" function would let outside air pass through, preventing the "ingress of dirt and impurities to the vacuum-distributer".
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
Irwin, Samuel D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Generating Plant
Patent for improvements in steam-generating plants. The most notable change is that the boiler proper is separate from the furnace proper but still contains the water, steam, and fire tubes.
Date:
March 6, 1919
Creator:
Connelley, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal Box
Patent for an improved journal box design intended to reduce the risk of oil leaking from a locomotive's axle.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Davis, L. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Reducing Wear in the Working Barrels of Pumps
Patent for a means of reducing wear in the working barrels of pumps. The pumps made in this wat are specially adapted for operations in water or oil wells where the fluid being pumped is is mixed with sand and sediment.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Operation for the Separation of Liquids.
Patent for method to separate liquid through a separation device connected with an electric circuit.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Carrier
Patent for carrying an extra tire on an automobile along with a method for easy removal and placement of the tire.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Collins, Thomas Jefferson & Jordan, Royal Blaine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for a stove in which kerosene and other similar oils may be used as fuel. The stove is also designed to give the maximum amount of heat radiating surface by retaining the current of heated air in the flute chamber.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
White, Richard E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press.
Patent for improving baling presses by reconstructing the press to make it more efficient and simple. Also, this improvement allows the plunger to automatically return after the press stroke is finished.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
White, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Cup.
Patent for a collapsible holder for paper drinking cups.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Fermier, Victor Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gage.
Patent for saw gages that can be produced at a small cost which can be applied to a standard saw blade. The saw-gage can also grip the saw-blade tightly while also allowing the saw-blade to bend without breaking, and can be adjusted before securing permanently.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
Hinkle, Matison E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Locking Device.
Patent for improvements in switch locking devices. Design intends to increase efficiency and ease of operability, as well as providing "means for retaining the latch in inoperative position" when chosen (lines 23-25).
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
McCormick, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Filing Machine
Patent for an improved type of saw filing machine.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
Creasy, R. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Drill
Patent for a rotary boring drill to be used in mining and drilling.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, R. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screw Jack
Patent for improvements in screw jacks.
Date:
March 25, 1919
Creator:
Ewing, H. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing.
Patent for improvements in Railroad-crossings. Noiseless and a more durable crossing, allowing for a more maintainable foundation and less repairing compared to other crossings that vibrate and cause severe shock and damage to the foundation.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
O'Connor, Thomas J. & Culbertson, Warren W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Puzzle.
Patent for a word puzzle made up of a thin board with a grid of letters in which palindromic words and phrases are spelled by following lines forward and backward across the board from any point on the edge of the board to another.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Henderson, Alfred Jasper
System:
The Portal to Texas History