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Blade-Holder
Patent for a new and useful improvements to a blade holder. It can hold any form of razor blades can be securely held and easily released. The holder allows blades to be inserted safely and then hold blades firmly into place.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Lightfoot, Roy L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer
Patent for cotton packer designed for use in cotton gins.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Williams, French B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Highway for Grade-Crossings.
Patent for highway-railroad grade crossing designed to slow the flow of traffic as it crosses an intersecting railway.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Carter, Kenneth Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incubator
Patent for an incubator designed to maintain temperature automatically.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Kovar, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for improvements in liquid fuel burners that can handle intense heat and can be mass-produced.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Hosek, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Phonograph-Needle.
Patent for a phonograph needle "which is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and may be used in connection with phonograph records of different types" (lines 18-21). The needle has a flexible shank (in multiple forms) for improved audio quality, and it accommodates various tip styles for use with many brands of phonograph records.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Fletcher, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Gripping Device.
Patent for a device designed to hold and sustain a string of pipe in an elevated position during the process of unscrewing and separating it into sections, primarily used for drilling operations where pipes are connected and disconnected within a borehole.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Steen, Buford J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piston Packing
Patent for an improved means of packing pistons in gas, steam, or similar engines, which reduces the likelihood of loss of compression.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Williams, Nolan S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Barium Chlorate
Patent for a new process of making substantially pure barium chlorate that will be more expeditious and less costly to carry out than those prior.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Schoch, Eugene P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Serving-Table.
Patent for "a table...which is specially adapted for use in serving cold drinks, light lunches and the like to customers seated in an automobile or other similar vehicle" and the table "is adjustable so that it may be accommodated to vehicles of different heights" (lines 11-15, 18-19). It also contains an illustration.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Boysen, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Dumping Drag Harrow
Patent for an invention, including specifications, of an improved Self-Dumping Drag-Harrows mechanism. The device is capable of rotating or changing the angle of harrow teeth and body without the effort of the machine operator, facilitating faster movement and increased production. The mechanism in question is claimed by the applicant in addition to the competent parts arranged in such a fashion as to mimic the capabilities of the described device.
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
Bales, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Spray
Patent for Cotton Spray. "The present invention relates to spraying devices for destroying insect life which infests plants. The device is primarily intended for spraying cotton plants, and is so constructed and arranged as to travel over the plants, and to spray the said plants from opposite sides" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 27, 1912
Creator:
Walker, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Radiator
Patent for an automobile radiator which does not leak.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Garrison, Fernando G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Boiler.
Patent for a clothes boiler where the water circulates throughout the clothes.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Victor A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Mill.
Patent for a coffee mill that utilizes an electric motor for power (grinding).
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Sligar, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collector and Destroyer.
Patent for an insect collector and destroyer for removing insects from cotton plants.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Greer, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding Device.
Patent for a molding device for making concrete pipes.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Rial, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Root-Puller.
Patent for a root puller for pulling up Mesquite tree root clumps.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
McGehee, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring and Power Pull-Back for Baling-Presses.
Patent for a spring and power pull-back for hay baling presses.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring and Power Pull Back for Hay Balers
Patent for a spring and power pull back for hay balers. This invention is a hay baler "in which the plunger is moved inward by power and drawn outward by power or by a spring" (lines 10-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a wheel, which is stronger than other wheels on the market.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Moon, Richard D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake
Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Cleaning Compound
Patent for a boiler cleaning compound for steam-boilers and furnaces to prevent buildup from hard water.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
López, Néstor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
Shreeves, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History