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Apparatus for Burning Lime.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Walsh, Patrick A. & Walsh, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Jack
Patent for an automobile jack that lifts the vehicle so that necessary repairs can be made and that relieves constant pressure of the tires.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
Davidson, Charles Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Drier
Patent for a clothes drier that is constructed to surround a stove or heater.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Gallsworthy, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roasting and Grinding Machine.
Patent for "a combined roasting and grinding machine" (lines 12-13) with a conveyor that moves the coffee from end to end.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Herndon, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a compressor. This is an improvement upon previous refrigeration and ice making machines.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Fowler, Paul R.; Gingrich, John A.; Tongate, Willis B. & Ridge, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton choppers. A stronger, more durable, efficient, ease of operation, chopper.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Penn, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Renovator.
Patent for cotton cleaner and renovator, which can also be used for other fibrous materials. The machine is meant to clean and renovate second grade fiber to a degree that it may be rated as first grade on the market. Patent contains illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C. & Reynolds, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Renovating Plant.
Patent for getting knowledge on how to collect the cotton and make it usable.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
James C. Garner, of Dallas, Texas & Charles S. Reynolds, of Houston, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Opener and Cleaner.
Patent for cleaning and renovating cotton and other fibrous materials that are found in the lint that falls from the gin in the regular ginning process.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Standard
Patent for Cultivator-Standard.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Urban, William A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator.
Patent for elevator supporting a locking mechanism to restrict movement in case of a broken cable preventing the elevator car "from dropping to the bottom of the shaft" (lines 16-17).
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Hathhorn, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hen's Nest.
Patent for an automatic gate or door for a hen's nest enclosure that will swing shut to keep out intruders when a hen enters and open when the hen leaves.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
Buie, Daniel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements to Demountable Wheels
Patent for a new design for the demountable wheel with a new simple and strong construction that is made of a lighter pressed steel that may be manufactured at a relatively lower cost.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Simmons, Oliver G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Invalid-Bed.
Patent for attachment to beds for invalids. This device allows the invalid to be raised or placed in the sitting position.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Anderson, Young R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement.
Patent for device for easily picking up leaves from a lawn. The device consists basically of spikes mounted on a wheel that pick up leaves when the machine is run over a lawn and then are deposited in a recipticle.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Murrah, Louie T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Jack
Patent for lifting jack used to lift vehicles.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
Applewhite, Scott C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Differential Gears
Patent for "Locking Device for Differential Gears adapted especially for use in connection with automobiles using the “full floating” type of rear axle." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
King, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Point Attachment
Patent for an attachment for the point of a plow that protects the point from wear and tear, especially in soil that is sandy.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Trout, Calvin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Separation of Ores by Flotation.
Patent for a improved process and apparatus use commercially to separate ores using flotation. By "introducing a novel step in the flotation process which results in the complete breaking down of the froth and at the same time keeping the volume of water used within the smallest practical limits thus preventing the washing away of valuable concentrates by an unnecessarily large volume of water" (lines 54-60).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Thompson, W. Albert & Cole, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projecting Apparatus.
Patent for developing projecting apparatuses. This projecting apparatuses invented has continuous operation and manual operation is removed.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Chapman, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Grader
Patent for an improvement or update to a device called a road-grader. This patented upgrade will make the use of a road-grader easier.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
Harris, Elie B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener.
Patent for an improved window sash fastener that will "enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Crandell, Frederick N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Filer and Gummer
Patent for a device "adapted for the purpose of sharpening and gumming the teeth of circular saws" (lines 12-14), particularly the types of saws used in a cotton gin. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
McMicken, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History