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Activated-Sludge Treatment. (open access)

Activated-Sludge Treatment.

Patent for a method that dehydrates sewage for easier removal.
Date: January 29, 1918
Creator: Moor, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an airplane with improved steering capabilities and adjustments for atmospheric conditions.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Canion, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake for Automobiles (open access)

Air-Brake for Automobiles

Patent for air-brakes in automobiles. It is a system that replaces fluid braking systems with an air-based braking system.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Daniel, Wiley Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Intake Device. (open access)

Air Intake Device.

Patent for an air intake device for automobiles and other internal combustion engines. Provides novel and improved heated air supply for carburetors during cold weather. Adjustable to admit unheated air in various proportions according to the air temperature and weather.
Date: January 29, 1918
Creator: Hornburg, C.A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids. (open access)

Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids.

Patent for a pneumatic lift that maintains the air pressure needed to effectively move liquid through a pipe.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate (open access)

Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate

Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: McCombs, Oliver A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Granular Materials (open access)

Apparatus for Treating Granular Materials

Patent for an apparatus for treating granular materials. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Lanaux, Alfred A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Moving Picture Machines (open access)

Attachment for Moving Picture Machines

Patent for improvements in attachments for moving picture machines through edges of film being lubricated or smoothed.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Parker, Isaac B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs (open access)

Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs

Patent for new and useful improvements in attachments for Sawmill-Dogs. This invention relates to sawmill dogs, and has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient device for retaining the actuating lever of a lever mechanism in adjusted position.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Lynch, C. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto-Organ (open access)

Auto-Organ

Patent for an organ that can be operated by vehicles or windmills. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: England, James Ross
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto power transmitting jack (open access)

Auto power transmitting jack

Patent for auto power transmitting jack and it uses.
Date: March 29, 1915
Creator: Adolf F. Johnson, of El Campo, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit-Control Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Circuit-Control Apparatus

Patent for an automatic circuit control that uses electro-magnetics. The invention is primarily used for making or breaking circuits.
Date: November 29, 1913
Creator: Barron, Melvil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Plow-Foot. (open access)

Automatic Plow-Foot.

Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Dugger, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Valve (open access)

Automatic Valve

Patent for Automatic Valve
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Pringle, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Scale (open access)

Automatic Weighing Scale

Patent for moving a pole along a beam that efficiently measures weight as a scale.
Date: June 29, 1918
Creator: Foster Jr., Samuel T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Jack. (open access)

Automobile-Jack.

Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.
Date: August 29, 1912
Creator: Bouldin, W. Claughton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile -Tire. (open access)

Automobile -Tire.

Patent for a wire-wrapped casing for car tires.
Date: November 29, 1919
Creator: MIchero, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c. (open access)

Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.

Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Alsup, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Bearing for Baling-Presses.

Patent for a bearing for cotton presses which allows for greater force and less friction.
Date: December 29, 1916
Creator: Taft, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Cover Holder (open access)

Bed-Cover Holder

Patent for bed cover holder, particularly the clamping mechanism that holds the covers to the bed and allows the clamps to grasp "covers of different thicknesses" (lines 25-26) without requiring clamp adjustment.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Hillman, Emmie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blackboard-Cleaner. (open access)

Blackboard-Cleaner.

Patent for a blackboard cleaner that incorporates a "water reservoir having manually controlled means for communicating the water of the reservoir to the rubbing element of the cleaner" (lines 13-17) including an illustration. The rubbing element was also made to be easily removed for replacement or cleaning.
Date: January 29, 1918
Creator: Satrum, Gilbert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Compound (open access)

Boiler Compound

Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Maule, John Quincey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for an air suctioning instrument that exterminates boll-weevil and other insects that infest cotton crops. Illustrations included.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Goar, Robert Keith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Jack (open access)

Bolt-Jack

Patent for a bolt jack with which bolts may be pulled without bending. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Smith, Henry H.
System: The Portal to Texas History