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56
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19
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4
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1
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1
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1
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1
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Collection
Texas Patents
18,569
Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
887
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76
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
5
The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
1
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1
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States
Decade
Month
Cross-Roller Bit.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in cross-roller bits. Invention relates to "improvements in rotary boring drills for use in drilling wells for water, oil or gas and has particular reference to drills of the so called cross roller type for use in hard formation."
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chuck.
Patent for chucks that secure pipes, preventing movement when being cut or threaded, including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1921
Creator:
Castanie, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Top.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Automobile-Tops." (lines 5-6) and is related to "tops of automobiles having two or more seats." (lines 9-10) includes illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Stewart, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable End Die.
Patent for improvements to adjustable end dies. These improvements allow convenient rethreading of bolts while it is engaged with an object.
Date:
February 8, 1921
Creator:
Wright, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Continuous Hydraulic Oil Press
Patent for an automatic continuous hydraulic oil press designed to more efficiently extract oil from a variety of crops and seeds.
Date:
September 16, 1919
Creator:
Helm, C. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Windlass
Patent for an improvement to automobile windlasses. The improvement allows automobile to be removed from any road obstruction easily and quickly.
Date:
November 11, 1919
Creator:
Davis, Marion A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Concentration of Ores.
Patent for improvements to recovering ore using flotation methods.
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Wiser, Oba
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom-Holder.
Patent for a holder for suspending a broom by its head in an inverted position. Primarily a bracket designed to be secured against a wall or the back of a door.
Date:
December 24, 1918
Creator:
Veach, Dewey M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.
Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
Date:
May 27, 1919
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Signal
Patent for a device to indicate the intention to make a turn in an automobile, with improvements made for nighttime usage, including illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1918
Creator:
Illingworth, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window Shade and Curtain Hanger.
Patent for an adjustable window shade frame that can be mounted on an existing window to allow curtains or shades to be adjusted from the top or the bottom, and secured at any desired level for privacy and/or ventilation.
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Edens, Myrtle J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Hollow-Tube Sucker-Rod for Deep Wells
Patent for a "simple and inexpensive means for coupling the tubular sections of the sucker rod together and guiding said rod with little or no friction into the well casing or tube" (lines13-17). This object is to be used in "pumping water, oil, and other liquids from deep wells"(lines 11-12).
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bill-Posting Blanking Device.
Patent for bill-posting blanking device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards.
Date:
November 20, 1917
Creator:
Gallia, Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter Attachment.
Patent for a carbureter attachment.
Date:
March 19, 1918
Creator:
McDonald, James A. & Harris, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Engine Hood and Drain-Trough Therefor.
Patent for the creation of "an improved automobile hood and particularly drain trough" (lines 12-14) that have been adapted in order to reduce the risk of water leaking into the vehicle's engine.
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Stowe, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ratchet Die-Stock
Patent for improvement on the usage of die-stocks which are used to cut and thread metal objects such as pipes.
Date:
July 22, 1919
Creator:
Hestand, Rue S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Rocker for Baby-Carriages.
Patent for adjustable rockers that convert baby carriages into a cradle in a quick and reliable manner.
Date:
June 18, 1918
Creator:
Hill, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper-Tool-Lifting Mechanism.
Patent for a "hand and footlifting mechanism capable of independent operation whereby either the hand or the foot operations may be performed, and the tools or hoes either lifted without disturbing their fixed adjustment or their elevation adjusted as desired," (lines 14-20) including illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1918
Creator:
East, Arthur R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beet-Harvester.
Patent for a beet-harvester that pulls the beets from the ground and severs the tops from the bodies of the beets.
Date:
April 15, 1919
Creator:
Faucher, George E
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AIR REGULATING ATTACHMENT
Patent for an Air Regulating Attachment. This new invention for an air regulating attachment builds upon previous advancements to create an inexpensive air regulating attachment system, which will in turn be used to regulate engine carburetors (Oscar Kiessing).
Date:
April 21, 1919
Creator:
Kiessig, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cork-Puller
Patent for a cork-puller which eases the removal of a cork from a bottle, without damaging either cork or bottle, with illustrations.
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Moser, Jacob W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobile Headlights
Patent for an automobile headlight attachment capable of horizontal rotation.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Tripp, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AUTOMOBILE-TOOL.
Patent for an automobile tool for the Ford make of automobiles that "will hold the springs away from the bands and allow the bands to be removed and replaced or adjusted, when necessary" (lines 29-32) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
ROBERGE, JAMES Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Vaporizing-Plug
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Vaporizing-Plugs" (lines 5-6). "This invention... has for its principle object the production of a device which is adapted to be carried upon a manifold of an internal combustion engine... so that upon each stroke of the piston, or pistons, air will be drawn into the intake manifold where it will be mixed with gas passing therethrough, thus forming a charge which will have more power when exploded and which will prevent the formation of carbon deposits within the cylinders and which will also reduce the cost of operation of the engine." (lines 9-23).
Date:
July 2, 1918
Creator:
Floyd, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History