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Attachment for Cash-Registers. (open access)

Attachment for Cash-Registers.

Patent for an attachment for cash registers which makes it impossible to remove paper to wrap a customer's purchase before the cash register has been opened, for the purpose of reducing "losses due to forgetfulness or dishonesty of clerks making sales" (lines 9-11), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: White, Robert N., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Closure (open access)

Bottle-Closure

Patent for a bottle cap for milk bottles and similar types of glass bottles. This is designed to be easily removed, keep the mouth of the bottle clean, and can be cleansed, sterilized, and reused.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Williams, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Swing and Couch. (open access)

Combination Swing and Couch.

Patent for a piece of swinging furniture for infants and small children which can be converted between a seat and a couch. This device is designed to be collapsed and folded for easy storage, as well as to be cheap and easy to manufacture. Illustrations included.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: McDevitt, Leslie I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Rack. (open access)

Automobile-Rack.

Patent for improved automobile racks that are elevated to accomplish the following tasks: removing paint from the automobile, and make the automobile more accessible during construction.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Cleveland, David P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.

Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels. (open access)

Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.

Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date: September 10, 1917
Creator: Cole, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stopping Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Train-Stopping Mechanism.

Patent for an affordable and easily operable mechanical train stopper designed to be installed directly on a locomotive.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Evans, Alva A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener (open access)

Can Opener

Patent for a can opener specifically shoe polish boxes. It is used as an opener that will not require the use of rivets, openings in the material, or any other means whereby air may enter the can.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Searcy, Peter B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery. (open access)

Battery.

Patent for an improvement to batteries, particularly pertaining to their electrochemical components, including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Crowley, Richard Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Watering Plants (open access)

Apparatus for Watering Plants

Patent for improvements in plant-watering apparatuses by inventor Elton F. Reid.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Reid, Elton F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book with Removable Cover (open access)

Book with Removable Cover

Patent for a removable cover for a pass book (a book where a customer's bank deposit account is kept). When a customer's pass book is filled the cover can be removed and refilled with a new pass book.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Malsch, Herman C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters. (open access)

Attachment for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters.

Patent for Improvements in Attachments for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters. The "explosive mixture entering the cylinders of the engine may be improved and in this way increase the efficiency of the engine" (lines 12-15).
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Atkinson, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing Head (open access)

Casing Head

Patent for a Case-Head. This case-head is used in oil wells. Its purpose is to ensure a tight seal around a pipe so that gas can flow properly through the tube.
Date: August 10, 1918
Creator: Kinzbach, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Foot Rest. (open access)

Collapsible Foot Rest.

Patent for a collapsible foot rest used for shoe shining stands. The invention is meant to simplify and improve the process of one stepping off or on a foot-rest to prevent injury or accident.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Le Laurin, Eugene M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
COUPLING PATENT (open access)

COUPLING PATENT

This patent is for a new coupling system to connect hollow pipes. It is specifically designed to address issues of vibration, which cause the coupling pin to become damaged.
Date: July 10, 1919
Creator: Hiegel, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Valve-Operating Mechanism

Patent for Valve Operating Mechanism that includes "new and useful improvements" (lines 5-6), and "has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient means for operating a valve at a distance" (lines 10-12).
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Baurens, Jean Marie, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack (open access)

Lifting-Jack

Patent for an improvement made to lifting jack machinery that raises automobiles for repairs. The patent prevents the axle from slipping in circumstances where the vehicle is on slippery grounds or parked on a hill. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Watson, Chester A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Cutter. (open access)

Vegetable-Cutter.

Patent for a vegetable cutter which is to be used as a grater.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Wittenborn, Edmund A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interest-Computing Device. (open access)

Interest-Computing Device.

Patent for a mechanical interest computing device, which is designed to be simple to build, maintain, and operate.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Harris, Ira S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linting Machine. (open access)

Linting Machine.

Patent for a linting machine (Carver type) that contains an air pocket at the end of the passage to prevent cotton from clogging the machine.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Woodrow, George N. & Bruce, Thomas D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Cutter (open access)

Weed-Cutter

Patent for "a simple, light and inexpensive tool which an be handled easily by women working in gardens and fields, particularly for cutting sand burs and cockle burs" (lines 9-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Klaffert, Katie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Device. (open access)

Well-Drilling Device.

Patent for adding a drilling stem to a well-drilling device, with illustration. This invention will improve operation of devices.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Church, Walter Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade (open access)

Window Shade

Patent for "Improvements in Window-Shades" (line 6) including illustrations.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Johnson, Charles G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book-Support and Writing-Table. (open access)

Book-Support and Writing-Table.

Patent for book support and writing table that adjusts to the item being used by the person. The tray is able to hold the item either a book or writing materials while adjusting to the user's needs. The book support and writing table can be folded to occupy little space.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Taylor, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History