Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner (open access)

Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner

Patent for improvements for a boiler skimmer or cleaner with suitable valves to control the blowing off from scum, steam or water.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Phillips, Eugene N. & Dick, Harvey H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed-separating machine (open access)

Cotton-seed-separating machine

Patent for a cotton-seed-separating machine for separating cotton seeds from the bolls.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Jones, Joel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Separator (open access)

Crude-Oil Separator

Patent for crude-oil separators mainly improves crude oil separators of baffle plate type.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Lawrence, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Recovering Tools from Wells. (open access)

Device for Recovering Tools from Wells.

Patent for a device to lift and recover tools, such as drill-bits, that have been dropped or lost in wells. The device features two prongs that may be engaged to grip or secure in a "biting hold" (line 50) various objects, illustrations included.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Scott, Augustus B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paving for Streets and the Like (open access)

Paving for Streets and the Like

Patent for paving for streets and the like invention relates to paving with specific constructions for high efficiency in resisting wear.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow that has functional improvements in plows.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Fudge, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process Of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Material. (open access)

Process Of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Material.

Patent for improvements in the process of and apparatus for separating and grading material. "Improvement upon our Patent #1,073,644, issued September 23, 1913, for a 'Separating table and process of separation'" (lines 14-17). Object of invention is to improve the general construction of separating table.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Apparatus for Sizing and Separating Comminuted Material (open access)

Process of Apparatus for Sizing and Separating Comminuted Material

Patent for new and useful improvements in process and apparatus for sizing and separating comminuted materials. This is the fifth patent and improves on the previous four patents.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of making tire-fillers (open access)

Process of making tire-fillers

Patent for the process of making tire fillers that relates to the fillers for tire casings and the process of producing the same.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Aycock, Edward F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Traction-Lug (open access)

Tire Traction-Lug

Patent for tire traction-lug preventing slipping of the wheel in mud, sand, snow, slush, and other soft road-beds.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Smith, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vise for Drilling-Machines (open access)

Vise for Drilling-Machines

Patent for a vise for drilling-machines with a novel construction and combination of parts. The work is positioned and clamped under the drill.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Joyce, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Tire. (open access)

Wheel-Tire.

Patent for improvement in automobile tires, resulting in more resilient tires that utilize internal spring coils that are encased in an elastic casing to protect against direct contact with the rubber tire.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Dalwigk, Hermann
System: The Portal to Texas History
De-Aerator (open access)

De-Aerator

Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Strite, Frank S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Trull, Harvey L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Rocking-Chairs (open access)

Attachment for Rocking-Chairs

Patent for attachments for rocking chairs such as a rotary fan and platform for the rockers of the chair among other items including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Ryan, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Can Spout. (open access)

Oil-Can Spout.

Patent for an oil can spout that is used as a connection to a dispensing can which serves as a spout and as a stopper. This spout is easily installed and removed when desired, this spout also prevents accidental removal while handling.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Melvin, Joe D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planter. (open access)

Peanut-Planter.

Patent for a peanut planter that dispenses a single peanut from the seed cans in to the feed wheel's cells.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Wilson, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Shirt. (open access)

Sleeping-Shirt.

Patent for a sleeping shirt designed to secure infants to the bed by removable shoulder flaps.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Johnson, Ira A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gap Gate. (open access)

Water-Gap Gate.

Patent for new and improved water gap gates to protect gates and barriers during natural interference, thereby preventing livestock injury.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Sattler, Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bundle-Tie (open access)

Bundle-Tie

Patent for a bundle tie particularly designed for mail packages. Illustrations included.
Date: September 9, 1909
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Richard, Jay S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect Destroying Machine

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroying Machines,"(lines 6-7) including description and illustrations.
Date: September 9, 1904
Creator: Doak, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Hetherington, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect-Destroying Machine

Patent for an agricultural machine to remove insects (especially boll-weevils) from cotton plants.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Dyer, Charles V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Table (open access)

Extension-Table

Patent for "an improvement in center tables, seeking to provide a simple convenient construction of extension-table, Which can be easily extended or contracted, by which the objectionable center leg can be dispensed with, and in which the main or center portion Will be firmly supported at all times" (lines 7-13).
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Smith, Lewis G.
System: The Portal to Texas History