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Agitator.
Patent for an improved device to produce a useful agitation of liquid in washing machines by configuring the paddles or blades in the most effective manner, including illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1915
Creator:
Babek, Aloysius S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alarm for Incubators
Patent for an alarm that sounds upon the temperature in an incubator either increasing or decreasing.
Date:
November 21, 1916
Creator:
Poore, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Trull, Harvey L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.
Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date:
September 10, 1917
Creator:
Cole, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling
Patent for an apparatus for forming cotton batting into dense rolls to prepare them for bailing and pressing. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Banister, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Watering Plants
Patent for improvements in plant-watering apparatuses by inventor Elton F. Reid.
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Reid, Elton F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp.
Patent for an arc lamp that features a spring operated clutch mechanism for the upper electrode.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Williams, Theron H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Object-Finders.
Patent for a "new and useful attachment for the object finder of a camera" (lines 9-10) with adjustable configuration, including illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Lawson, Harry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.
Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Steinocher, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling
Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date:
January 11, 1916
Creator:
Cobb, John Ollen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Cooling System
Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
Date:
September 3, 1918
Creator:
Goodwin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm
Patent for alarm that is activated upon the closing of a circuit, which will occur when an intruding person enters through the window or door.
Date:
February 27, 1917
Creator:
Hilley, Albert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cable Clip or Hanger
Patent for invention of improvements of cable clips or hangers.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Davidson, Charles G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cake Cloth Remover and Truck Loader.
Patent for a cake cloth remover and truck loader which can mechanically remove the press cloth from cotton and linseed cakes and deliver the cakes for loading on a truck.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Lowry, Walter Jack
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter Attachment.
Patent for a carbureter attachment.
Date:
March 19, 1918
Creator:
McDonald, James A. & Harris, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Actuating Mechanism
Patent for a churn actuated mechanism that is operated by means of a rocking chair.
Date:
October 9, 1914
Creator:
Jones, Erastus T. & Stanton, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Box Clip.
Patent for an inexpensive improvement to cigar box clips or clamps, that will make it easier for the box to be left open at a tilted angle, for the purpose of displaying the cigars or other objects inside.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Holder, Andrew Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Perry, Cornelius Doctor & Wosnig, Walter, E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.
Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Hoxworth, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressing-Machine.
Patent for a compressing machine for pressing plastic, cotton, and cotton seeds.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Baade, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Converter and Smelter.
Patent for an improved converter and smelter mechanism that processes crushed ore, including illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1919
Creator:
Miller, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Curran, William Ferris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for chopper blade for cotton.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a "cotton chopper attachments for cultivators and seeks to simplify the construction, reduce the cost of manufacture, and increase the efficiency os such attachments" (lines 9-13) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
August 6, 1918
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History