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The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
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States
Decade
Month
Gun.
Patent for an artillery gun which can be moved in any direction due to improvements in its base.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Collier, William Reid
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Oven.
Patent for a device that heats wagon and buggy wheel tires that will warm them evenly.
Date:
June 29, 1920
Creator:
Howlett, Isaac C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud-Cleaning Mechanism for Tractor-Wheels.
Patent for mud cleaning mechanism for tractor wheels. The mechanism's objective is to automatically clean from and between the cleats and the ground, and along the rims of tractor wheels while the wheels are in motion. Additional advantages noted are that this mechanism is easily assembled and disassembled, durable and compact, and applicable with multiple styes of tractors.
Date:
May 25, 1920
Creator:
Williams, Hartwell L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underground Portable Drill
Patent for drilling machines for the object of drilling underground openings for laying gas, electric, water or any other conduits. A second object is sectional drill or track worm to keep drilling going without moving the machine.
Date:
July 15, 1919
Creator:
Branning, Willie F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for an improved nut lock that prevents nuts from loosening. The invention is a combined nut lock and washer with spring plate, including illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1919
Creator:
Teague, Isaac E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Driven Header and Binder
Patent for a mechanically driven header and binder tool that can be mounted to a tractor for use in large-scale agricultural harvesting, with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 16, 1918
Creator:
Swofford, Marvin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor- Driven Tire- Pump
Patent for Motor-Driven Tire Pump. Motor tire pump that helps inflate tires.
Date:
February 8, 1921
Creator:
Guthrey Gordon N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tatting-Shuttle
Patent for an improved tatting shuttle. This new shuttle will hold multiple bobbins and shuttles to carry multiple colors of threads.
Date:
June 29, 1920
Creator:
Wolle, Leonora
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paracentesis Needle or Trocar
Patent for a needle with the purpose of injecting fluids or extracting excess fluids from the body. Includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Hill, Phillip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Casing Core
Patent for a tire casing core designed to make the installation and removal of casings from tires easier to perform with a reduced risk of damaging either item.
Date:
April 15, 1919
Creator:
Hibbs, C. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Line-Wires.
Patent for support for line wires that can be quickly connected to the line wire and at the same time preventing the line wire from being bent to a large extent.
Date:
November 20, 1917
Creator:
Head, Vernon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steering-Adjuster for Automobiles.
Patent for an automatic adjuster for the steering gear of a Ford automobile, for "attachment to the steering knuckle arms and the front radius yoke" (lines 12-13), improving wheel alignment and tension and reducing "wabbling movement" (line 46).
Date:
August 10, 1920
Creator:
Moulder, Duncan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine.
Patent for a surface treating machine that improves support, where the surface treating member is "driven by intermediate means from a motor displaced from the member, together with means of effecting adjustments of the surface treating member with relation to the work" (lines 13-15), with illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Clarke, Alex A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tag-Threading Machine
Patent for a machine that threads tags or cards through ribbon, twine, string, etc.
Date:
June 15, 1920
Creator:
Suchy, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trombone.
Patent, including illustration, for "a musical instrument slide and is more particularly designated as a bearing or stocking for a trombone or other similar instruments in which it is desirable to provide a smooth bearing for the slidable part of the instrument" (page 1, lines 9-13).
Date:
February 17, 1920
Creator:
Ackley, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Device.
Patent for surface treating devices that provides "a continuously moving surface treating member and support the same in such a manner that its application to the work may be adjusted to a minute degree and controlled by the operator while the device is in operation." (lines 11-16)
Date:
September 14, 1920
Creator:
Clarke, Alex A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Union-Garment
Patent for union garments with a strip of elastic or semi-elastic woven material at the back of the waist in order to allow the garment to stretch when worn.
Date:
February 15, 1921
Creator:
Hook, Thomas Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Circulating Gage.
Patent for an "oil circulating gage particularly designed for use in connection with the oiling system of the well known 'Ford' automobile."
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Cope, Thomas N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moving-Picture Machine.
Patent for an improved machine to play films (moving-pictures), synchronizing both sound and picture in a single machine. Division of another patent by the same inventor (Serial No. 765,959) for a sound record film, and is intended to be used in conjunction with said patent.
Date:
March 26, 1918
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mousetrap
Patent for a mousetrap that is an improvement to the average mousetrap, but new in the sense that it can be made in various proportions or sizes for a variety of vermin.
Date:
January 24, 1922
Creator:
Spencer, Clarence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swivel for Rotary Drills
Patent for a swivel for rotary drills used for wells of oil, water, and gas. This swivel ensures no substances, such as sand, get into the parts of the drill that move.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underreamer for Reaming Out Producing-sands.
Patent for "underreaming tools or bits which can be adjusted from the top of the well and which can be set at the required angle..."
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Lambeth, Acey L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Spacer.
Patent for improvement on tie-spacers when loaded on trucks for the process of creosoting ties. Allowing for treating fluid to flow between all sides of each tie when loaded, including illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Sommerlatte, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unloading and Feeding Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in Unloading and Feeding Apparatus, which improves the handling of fodder in a simple, practical, and cost effective way.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Pierson, Ludvig B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History