Bread-Knife. (open access)

Bread-Knife.

Patent for bread knives that consists of a plurality of knives spaced apart to cut the slices of uniform width.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Roberts, Isaac F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air Controlling Device (open access)

Automatic Air Controlling Device

Patent for an air controlling device that supplies air at a constant and unvarying pressure.
Date: February 22, 1916
Creator: Crotto, Frank E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Opener and Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton Opener and Cleaner.

Patent for cleaning and renovating cotton and other fibrous materials that are found in the lint that falls from the gin in the regular ginning process.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Garner, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Enteric Lavage. (open access)

Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.

Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.
Date: June 27, 1916
Creator: Pair, Laura Costello
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbon-gripper and margin-indicator for writing-machines (open access)

Carbon-gripper and margin-indicator for writing-machines

A device for improved handling, securing, and carrying paper while type-writing; suitable for a wide variety of type-writer models.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Evans, Charles I., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bracelet (open access)

Bracelet

Patent for a "friendship bracelet" that has the option of adding or detaching links when necessary.
Date: October 17, 1916
Creator: Cox, Morgan H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Table and Chair (open access)

Combined Table and Chair

Patent for combined table and chair that is very durable and simple in construction. This will allow organization and support for either a chair use or table use.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Macon, Alexander W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Lamp-Shade. (open access)

Adjustable Lamp-Shade.

Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Landers, Charles G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Candy, Cake, and Cracker Box. (open access)

Candy, Cake, and Cracker Box.

Patent for "a tin box for candy, cakes, or crackers" (lines 15-16) with a display glass panel on the front wall.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Rizzotto, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Renovating Plant. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Renovating Plant.

Patent for getting knowledge on how to collect the cotton and make it usable.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: James C. Garner, of Dallas, Texas & Charles S. Reynolds, of Houston, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate. (open access)

Crate.

Patent for a crate for eggs which allows the eggs to be suspended in individual compartments for shipping. The crate will be lined with flexible material that will cushion the egg absorbing shock, including illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Smith, Nora S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Filler and Packer for Baling-Presses (open access)

Combined Filler and Packer for Baling-Presses

Patent for a combined filler and packer for association with a cotton press or baling apparatus and operating to receive lint cotton from a suitable source. The primary objective is to facilitate an automatic direct feed of lint cotton from the cotton separator into the baling apparatus.
Date: August 1, 1916
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bracket for Window-Shades. (open access)

Bracket for Window-Shades.

Patent for new and improved brackets to hang window shades and curtain rods without damaging window frames, including illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Choules, Arthur Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Moving Pictures From Plastic Materials (open access)

Process of Producing Moving Pictures From Plastic Materials

Patent for process of producing moving pictures from plastic materials
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Sudmann, Charles L. & Hopkins, Willie D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring. (open access)

Vehicle-Spring.

Patent for an improved vehicle spring on the axle that is stronger and more durable, including illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Hagemann, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Voice Recording and Reproducing Device. (open access)

Voice Recording and Reproducing Device.

Patent for a voice recording "attachment for a moving picture camera, which, while a picture is being taken will produce [...] photographic record of sounds that appropriately accompany the picture" (lines 11-16), including illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Walker, Jack L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel. (open access)

Wind-Wheel.

Patent for "connecting the wheel shaft with the driving shaft and [...] the provision of a wind wheel having wind collecting faces or pockets extending in vertical planes surrounding a vertical driving shaft as an axis" (lines 25-38), including illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1916
Creator: Iley, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Pumping System (open access)

Well Pumping System

Patent for a system used to pump oil from a non-flowing well.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Stephenson, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kite. (open access)

Kite.

Patent for a new design of kite in which the frame is adjustable and able to form different shapes. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leather-Press (open access)

Leather-Press

Patent for device which can clamp down leather strips while they are being flexed.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Shaw, Fred H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement. (open access)

Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement.

Patent for device for easily picking up leaves from a lawn. The device consists basically of spikes mounted on a wheel that pick up leaves when the machine is run over a lawn and then are deposited in a recipticle.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Murrah, Louie T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Lock (open access)

Transmission-Lock

Patent for a mechanism to be added onto a motor vehicle transmission to prevent unwarranted action on the transmission.
Date: January 25, 1916
Creator: McDonald, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Material. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Material.

Patent for a machine composed of independently operated and adjustable mounted sized units for sorting and transporting grain sized materials.
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projecting Apparatus. (open access)

Projecting Apparatus.

Patent for developing projecting apparatuses. This projecting apparatuses invented has continuous operation and manual operation is removed.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Chapman, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History