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Aerocompass.
Patent for an aerocompass, which improves upon a compass combined with inclinometers or map-boards. It is intended for use on submarines, airplanes, or in an area when it would be difficult to use a regular compass.
Date:
January 8, 1918
Creator:
Fischer, Fred Charlie.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airshape. This invention is of a helicopter design. Illustration included.
Date:
January 21, 1913
Creator:
Darche, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal trap that can continue to trap more animals even after if traps one or more.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Dennis, Decatur D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Wheel
Patent for an automobile wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Messerli, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters
Patent for an attachment to existing hopper fed planters intended for larger format seeds (corn, cotton, etc.), to allow their use in distribution of smaller format seeds (cabbage, onions, etc.).
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Whitworth, John Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery Connector
Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hale, Noah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chair for Sewing Machines and the Like.
Patent for a folding chair for a sewing machine or a similar machine, which can fit into a space between the supporting legs. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Hagner, Frederick Hayes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Fish-Bucket.
Patent for a combination fish bucket, which has two compartments for holding bait, tackle, and food and a holder for a fishing rod, which may be carried on the body or by a handle.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Fly, Nathaniel D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer.
Patent for a tool used for shaving or hair trimming. This device has a reversible plate carrying a guard and comb teeth. The plate being reversible to permit the guard to be used in connection with a blade for shaving and to permit the teeth to be used in connection with a blade for hair trimming.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Brasier, William Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hat and Coat Rack.
Patent for a simple hat and coat rack "wherein a hat holder is supported by two garment hooks" and mounted on a wall (lines 11-12).
Date:
November 10, 1914
Creator:
Trice, Bacon S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shock-Absorber and Brace.
Patent for an improved connection between the shock absorber and brace to "reduce the strain on the front springs of a motor vehicle and to control the rebound incident to the front wheels [...] so that the machine may at all times be under proper control of the steering mechanism" (lines 34-41), including illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
More, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Soap-Drainer and Brush
Patent for a brush which can be used as a soap receptacle when laid flat on its back. In this position, it also allows the brush bristles to drain.
Date:
January 19, 1915
Creator:
Tijou, Lincoln
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Connecting Member.
Patent for connecting members, "which in one form is particularly adapted for repairing chains or linking chains to each other and which may be modified so as to be used as buckles or for a variety of other purposes." (lines 20-24)
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Wallace, Milton M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Cutter
Patent for a more efficient and simple cotton stalk chopper with the ability for the chopping drum to be moved up and down in the on and off positions.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Thomsen, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cranking Device
Patent for a cranking device. Illustration included.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Christensen, Petter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Removing Snow from Railway Tracks.
Patent for a device that will remove snow from any tube structures using a rotary brush, as well as a suction device to intake displaced snow, and then melt it in a hopper.
Date:
October 3, 1916
Creator:
Purdin, Nettie J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Harrow.
Patent for novel construction of a Disk Harrow consisting of a wheel-mounted frame which raises and lowers opposite sides independently and frame attached pivotally carrying a gang of harrow disks.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Emmert, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signal
Patent for an alarm device to indicate overheating of an internal combustion engine.
Date:
June 1, 1915
Creator:
Lièvre, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch
Patent for an electric switch. Illustration included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Ramsay, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Equilibrium-Retaining Device for Flying-Machines.
Patent related to automatic means for maintaining equilibrium while operating heavier-than-air flying machines through the use of valves.
Date:
November 28, 1911
Creator:
Macmanus, Augustus Frederick Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flush Valve
Patent for flush valve that stabilizes the cup or trough housing mercury.
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Cahill, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flush-Valve
Patent for a valve for a general flush tank.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Cahill, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Heading Machine
Patent for machine that aids in the harvest and processing of Kafir corn.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Forbes, Cullen C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Singer
Patent for a hair singer that contains the odor and smoke produced by singed hair.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Eldridge, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History