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Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for improvements to a device for exterminating insects, in particular corn weevils, including illustrations.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Geeslin, Robert Worn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Alarm for Railroad Crossings
Patent for alarm for automatic railroad crossings to alert those nearby of an oncoming train.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Price, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Cut-Off
Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Goodridge Wilson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Lock.
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in automobile locks", including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Needham, Edmund T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auxilary Transmission-Case Hanger.
Patent for auxiliary hanger for automobile transmission case. This particular device was designed for use with Ford automobiles, but can be used with other automobiles.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Windsor, Samuel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle.
Patent for bale-tie buckle improvement for tightly securing single length wire prior to pressure release around a cotton bale. Further bale-tie buckle improvements include sharper bends using flat or oval wire to further decrease slipping of wire.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Frantz, Erza A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bracket
Patent for an improved bracket.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Mertz, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy Wrapping Machine
Patent for a machine that will enrobe stick cand with a wrapper. It will recieve the candy stick by stick, wrap it in paper, and twist the ends.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Greer, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Shoe.
Patent for new and useful Improvements in Casing-Shoes whose object is to "clamp around the tread of a tire casing for the purpose of reinforcing weak places in the casing, for repairing 'blow-outs' and for the purpose of preventing the 'skidding' of the vehicle" (lines 13-17), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Tuttle, Frank & Hall, Lewis T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Protector.
Patent for check-protectors that prevent unauthorized tampering with perforating rollers with springs and jaws.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
McCombs, Charles Cleveland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Washing Machine
Patent for improvements to a washing machine.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Perry, Robert J. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsable Carrying Crate
Patent for carrying case that can be folded up to be put away when unused.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Bomar, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for machines that utilizes a plethora of needles to harvest cotton.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Billie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Reginning Machine
Patent for machine that improves the grade of harvested
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Stephens, Louis K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Square-Gathering Device
Patent for cotton square gathering device will "provide a gatherer by means of which the punctured squares can be quickly collected off of the ground without compelling the user to bend, as ordinarily, with the result that a much smaller number of people can gather the punctured squares in a given area than has been possible heretofore in a given length of time" (lines 21 - 28).
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Summers, Martin Vandver & Passmore, Henry Tracy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Mechanism for Display Racks
Patent for Cutting Mechanism for Display-Racks.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Lanford, David L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim
Patent for "a demountable vehicle rim, which may be quickly secured to or detached from the felly rim or band of a wheel" (lines 9 - 11). As well as "to provide a demountable rim having lugs adapted to fit within bayonet slots in the felly band and be secured therein against rotational movement relative to the wheel by a plurality of spring pressed wedges or keys" (lines 16 - 21).
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Stroud, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washing Machine.
Patent for an improved dish-washing machine with removable platforms to hold the dishes to be cleaned and water spraying from both top and bottom of the device, including illustrations.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Crow, Jesse J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dispensing Liquids
Patent for device used to dispense liquids such as gasolene or the like.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Bruce, Thomas S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Operating Mechanism for Mail Boxes
Patent for door for mail boxes that can be quickly opened or closed by postal workers.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Calcote, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Excavator.
Patent for Excavator
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Butterfield, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filler for a Cotton-Gin Press-Block.
Patent for a Cotton-Gin Press-Block improvement in fillers that provide bale space when bagging using a pressed block to prevent bagging press-block interference.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Hall, Joseph Sidney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flame-Proof Insulation.
Patent for "flame proof" insulation that is a composition comprising of chlorinated petroleum material.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Ellis, Carleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Washstand
Patent for washstand that can fold up and be put away when not being used.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Ewell, Ocie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History