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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. The invention is designed to vary the curvature of the plane from front to rear and by this means the plane may be so adjusted as to reduce the "head resistance" to a minimum. The invention is also trying to find the suitable means for manipulating the adjustable sections whereby the movable sections. This invention aims to provide a machine that is strong, durable, efficient, and comparatively simple to construct.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
McCarroll, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump
Patent for an automobile air pump that can be power driven from a car motor. This pump can be driven from the rear wheel of a car.
Date:
July 15, 1915
Creator:
Causey, Thomas S. & Kelley, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products.
Patent for a new "method for burning all of the products usually known as "waste products" and to eliminate the fumes and poisonous vapors." (lines 27-30) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1915
Creator:
Jansen, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.
Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Brown, John Walter R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop.
Patent for a more efficient automatic train stop with a mechanism that uses a connection with the block system used on railways to stop a train when it runs into "the tracks of the danger zone or upon the tracks of the block where the train should be stopped." (lines 16-18)
Date:
April 20, 1915
Creator:
Gramm, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale.
Patent for a more accurate continuous weighing automatic scale of such bulk materials as grain, cotton seed, etc. with a mechanism for automatical control of both a main and an auxiliary receiver door.
Date:
January 26, 1915
Creator:
Williams, Andrew M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner
Patent for new and improved Boll Breakers and Cleaners "for handling and cleaning seed cotton prior to it delivery to the ginning mechanism..." (lines 9-10).
Date:
April 26, 1915
Creator:
Kinne, Tempel L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing for Player-Pianos.
Patent for "new and useful improvements" (lines 9-10) to the casing for player pianos. Improvements include simplifying numerous operations of the piano to be accomplished by one mechanism. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1915
Creator:
Terry, Charles R. & Money, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined envelop, shipping-tag, and index-card
An identifying tag to be placed on containers meant to be returned to the sender after delivery of goods.
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
Simpson, Ray R., of Dallas, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Separator.
Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a cotton gin with novel saws that are constructed in sections and placed in a way to reach more cotton entering the device, including illustrations.
Date:
January 19, 1915
Creator:
Stephens, Louis K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine
Patent for improvements to a cotton picking machine complete with illustrations
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Meier, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crimping-Machine
Patent for "a machine that crimps the edges of lids for lard pails and the like." (lines 8-11) including illustrations.
Date:
August 15, 1915
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome Nichols
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas City Directory, 1915
General directory for Dallas, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses.
Date:
1915
Creator:
John F. Worley Directory Company
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas City Park Board Annual Report: 1914-1915
Annual report for 1914-1915 compiled by the Park Board regarding the park system in Dallas, Texas. The report includes overarching reviews of the system's status and future plans as well as commentaries on each individual park. Near the end of the report, there are financial statistics showing the amounts spent by the park funds on maintenance for each of the parks as well as sketched maps of selected parks. There are also facts about "Dallas, the City of the Hour."
Date:
1915
Creator:
Dallas (Tex.). Park Board.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Differential Driving Mechanism.
Patent for a differential driving mechanism which allows axles to rotate at different speeds, includes illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1915
Creator:
Lindsley, Berrien M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Distribution of Funds from Hattie M. Sayles and Henry Sayles, February 2, 1915]
Document in which Henry Sayles and Hattie M. Sayles distribute an amount of $7866.97 amidst their children and relatives, declaring Henry Sayles Jr. to be in charge of the funds.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Sayles, Henry & Sayles, Harriet McAlpine (Hattie)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-Door Sill.
Patent for an elevator sill that bridges the gap between the floor and the bottom of the elevator when the elevator doors are open.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Doren, Lewis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eula Holley in Yard]
Photograph of Eula Holley sitting in her front yard. In the photograph, Eula wears a hat and shift dress with thin vertical stripes.
Date:
[1915..1920]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan and Fixture Support.
Patent for a fan and fixture support that can be used in connection with a common type of union box for electrical conduit installations. The device provides a support or hanger that can be installed either in frame or in concrete ceilings and partitions, and it prevents rotation of the device after installation.
Date:
June 1, 1915
Creator:
Murph, Donald H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener.
Patent for a fastener to be used in the connection of doors to ensure they are locked into place.
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Wilson, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Eyeglass-Lenses.
Patent for an improved device for fastening eyeglass and spectacle lenses to an eyeglass frame.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Thompson, Albert F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
First four installments of Highland Park Dallas.
Map shows location of Southern Methodist University campus; the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway; routes of the street car lines; and the Dallas Country Club. Upper center of map shows fourteen hundred acres of protected residential property. No scale noted.
Date:
1915
Creator:
Flippen-Prather Realty Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden-Hose Holder
Patent for a garden hose holder that "will support the nozzle or discharge end of a garden hose" at adjustable heights and directions. The patent allows for the "stream of water [to be] directed from the hose in any desired direction and at any angle relative to the ground."
Date:
January 5, 1915
Creator:
Leslie, Lee B. & Feuerbacher, Max E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History