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Animated Sign (open access)

Animated Sign

Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cigarette Package. (open access)

Cigarette Package.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Packages" (lines 5-6) including "the method of dispensing or extracting cigarettes from the package and as well to the method of making a cigarette package" (lines 9-12), including one illustration.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Sohn, Elmer L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer

Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Apparatus for Producing Transformation Effects (open access)

Method of and Apparatus for Producing Transformation Effects

Patent for a method of creating transformation effects through the use of particular colors of illumination, to be used in the theater, amusement houses, or other performances. The invention involves using lights whose colors can either "absorb" or "wash out" certain objects or designs of the same color while revealing objects of a complementary color.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for the churn dasher. This invention relates to dashers, or agitators, for churns and similar devices and aims to provide an improved assemblage of the component elements of the dasher, whereby to facilitate the agitation of the material and to aerate the same. Illustrations are provided.
Date: September 5, 1917
Creator: Lambie, R.C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for Baling Press
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: North, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Hanging Pictures (open access)

Device for Hanging Pictures

Patent for Device for Hanging Pictures
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Mastin, Mignon W
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Stay Bolt (open access)

Flexible Stay Bolt

Patent for Flexible Stay Bolt
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Bearicks, Charles F
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heat Distributor (open access)

Heat Distributor

Patent for Heat Distributor
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Jueschke, Charles A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter (open access)

Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter

Patent for Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Helm, Clyde D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for boll-weevil insect destroyer to that can be attached to cotton cultivator device and used to remove and destroy boll weevils simultaneously to plowing the cotton with the cultivator.
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: McCracken, Ninian S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Toy Hoop (open access)

Mechanical Toy Hoop

Patent for improved features for mechanical toy hoops, particularly for toys utilizing trundling hoops.
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Giesecke, Leo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle

Patent for Non-Refillable Bottle
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Burch, Charles E
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Tongs (open access)

Pipe Tongs

Patent for Pipe Tongs
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Hill, Richard Dennie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Amyl Acetate (open access)

Process of Making Amyl Acetate

Patent for Process of Making Amyl Acetate
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Essex, Harry & Brooks, Benjamin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for rail joints which "requires no extra plates or parts like the usual joint; that is stronger and more durable; that it is more readily assembled and that the parts are efficiently united; that only one bolt is required..." (lines 9-14).
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Gilmore, Aaron W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Relief Valve for Cotton Elevators (open access)

Relief Valve for Cotton Elevators

Patent for Relief Valve for Cotton Elevators
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Mcdonald, Marvin Vestor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for Resilient Wheel
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Kettler, Martin F
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Wheel (open access)

Automobile-Wheel

Patent for an automobile wheel. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Messerli, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine (open access)

Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine

Patent for a pencil vending machine that is coin-operated, with illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Mathes, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Engine (open access)

Compressed-Air Engine

Patent for a compressed air engine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Murray, Dick H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with an adjustable disk.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Burton, Walter C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow to be used with a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Wolfe, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter (open access)

Stalk-Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Scott, Oscar F.
System: The Portal to Texas History