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Ant-Trap
Patent for a trap for ants and other burrowing insects which works at the site of the ant-hill or burrow.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Cox, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor Unit for Gunners
Patent for armor that can be mounted on gunners units..
Date:
November 28, 1916
Creator:
Spence, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armored Car.
Patent for an armored car or portable fort, that aims to provide a novel and improved armor unit of that nature.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Spence, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cash-Registers.
Patent for an attachment for cash registers which makes it impossible to remove paper to wrap a customer's purchase before the cash register has been opened, for the purpose of reducing "losses due to forgetfulness or dishonesty of clerks making sales" (lines 9-11), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
June 10, 1919
Creator:
White, Robert N., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Crossing Signal
Patent for Automatic Crossing Signal
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Machac, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Shutter for Poultry-Houses and the Like.
Patent for automatic shutter for poultry houses, which closes with accumulation of rain water and opens upon rainwater drainage.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Hawkins, Fletcher M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Badge.
Patent for a badge that is to be pinned or worn upon the coat or other garment with the representation of the human eye that is capable of being winked or moved. The bade is to be used for advertising, humor or salutations, included illustration.
Date:
December 30, 1913
Creator:
Connor, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Rack
Patent for a rotating bag rack for use in stores.
Date:
February 27, 1912
Creator:
James, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolster Bearing
Patent for Bolster Bearing
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Hayes, Richard S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CHURN
Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
HARRISON, DAVID M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a new churn, an improvement on the device shown in prior Patent Number 944,129 granted December 21, 1909.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Floyd, Ellis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Truck.
Patent for a churn truck. It allows for "receiving churns in order," can be "moved to various places" as needed, and "the truck being provided with means for facilitating pushing or pulling thereof" (lines 10-15). Illustration included.
Date:
November 11, 1919
Creator:
Buie, Sula
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line.
Patent for Clothes-Line that is to supply an endless amount of clothesline in order to facilitate easy placement and/or removal of clothing from the line.
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Anderson, Chester A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Turner, James S. & Campbell, John Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cot-Frame
Patent for a cot frame designed to accommodate two people. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Shelton, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for improvements to cotton-choppers inculding illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Paris, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carriage
Patent for a simply structured carriage that will provide support to cotton sacks varying in different lengths.
Date:
October 6, 1914
Creator:
Alexander, Eugene E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Cleaner and Huller
Patent for a cottonseed cleaner and huller. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 15, 1910
Creator:
Vanlandingham, William Wallace
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crank
Patent for a crank to provide a starter for an internal combustion engine. If the engine backfires, this crank will ensure that the operator will not be injured.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Bates, Samuel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Separator
Patent for crude-oil separators mainly improves crude oil separators of baffle plate type.
Date:
September 9, 1919
Creator:
Lawrence, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine
Patent for "new and useful improvements in engines" (lines 5&6). "This invention relates to engines and more particularly to twin engines of the hydrocarbon or internal combustion type" (lines 8-10).
Date:
December 15, 1914
Creator:
Moore, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float
Patent for a new and useful fishing-float, aiming to provide a means for frictionally clamping the line within the float, so that the float can be adjusted readily along the line whenever desired.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Scott, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float
Patent for a new type of fishing float with "ferrules or caps" (line 18) on the ends to prevent water from getting into the float, causing it to decay, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 23, 1917
Creator:
Scott, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History