TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 6, September 1998 (open access)

TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 6, September 1998

Monthly bulletin issued to address topics related to law enforcement. This issue discusses "Merging Community-Oriented and Crime-Specific Policing Part Seven of Seven" including information on problem-oriented approaches and their effects.
Date: September 1998
Creator: Carter, David
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 1, April 1998 (open access)

TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 1, April 1998

Monthly bulletin issued to address topics related to law enforcement. This issue discusses "Merging Community-Oriented and Crime-Specific Policing Part Two of Seven" including topics such as neighborhood-centered approaches and several different programs descriptions and their effects,
Date: April 1998
Creator: Carter, David
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can-Closure (open access)

Can-Closure

Patent for general use to securely close cans containing liquid so that invisible tampering, evaporation, and contamination cannot occur.
Date: January 6, 1920
Creator: Starcke, Eugene P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Purifying Oil (open access)

Process of Purifying Oil

Patent for using aluminum chlorid compounds to clean crude oil. Which is apart of the petrochemical process of oil purification.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Miller, Albert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety Target. (open access)

Automatic Safety Target.

Patent for a target device for pistols and rifles which allows for the motion of the target being hit to move another target into view.
Date: August 3, 1920
Creator: Briggs, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction. (open access)

Building Construction.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in building construction" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Laughlin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Motor-Vehicles (open access)

Attachment for Motor-Vehicles

Patent for an attachment for motor vehicles, specifically for Ford cars but compatible with any car, where the attachment prevents the reverse movement of the car's crank.
Date: August 12, 1919
Creator: Daniel, Ulysses S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Utilization of Acid-Coke (open access)

Utilization of Acid-Coke

Patent for the utilization sulfuric acid in the creation and uses of acid-coke.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: George L. Pichard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner. (open access)

Burner.

Patent for improvements in burners to allow them to use liquid fuel such as oil.
Date: June 1, 1920
Creator: Placette, Joeseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Valve-Operating Mechanism

Patent for Valve Operating Mechanism that includes "new and useful improvements" (lines 5-6), and "has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient means for operating a valve at a distance" (lines 10-12).
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Baurens, Jean Marie, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lawn Mower (open access)

Lawn Mower

Patent for a lawn mower in which the means for adjusting the intermediate blade has been created so that a groove for a predetermined depth can be cut, and easy removal of the blade when it is desired to sharpen the same. Additionally, a ground-engaging roller is included to keep the machine at the same level so that the knife will cut into the ground at an even depth.
Date: December 5, 1919
Creator: Coniglio Carmelo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Rig. (open access)

Well-Drilling Rig.

Patent, including illustrations, for "an improved well drilling rig or apparatus" which provides "a simple, efficient, and practical machine of this kind including revoluble means having a device operatively connected to a walking beam (from which a drilling tool is suspended), so that upon every complete revolution of the revoluble means, the drilling tool or bit will be given two direct drops, each alternating with the lifting movement of the drill bit" (page 1, lines 11-21).
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Bradford, Robert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Screen. (open access)

Well Screen.

Patent for a well screen device. The device can keep particulates out of the well water while also restricting water to flow into the well without being released back into the soil.
Date: February 1, 1921
Creator: McLean, Marrs
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building-Block. (open access)

Building-Block.

Patent for building block that is easily formed or molded. The building block forms tiers to easy move around and modify.
Date: February 1, 1921
Creator: Pace, Vara L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fuel-Changing Valve. (open access)

Automatic Fuel-Changing Valve.

Patent for Automatic Fuel Changing Valve. The purpose of the invention is to provide a mechanism that switches to another gas supply when the one which is feeding the system runs low.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Connelly, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Distillation and Apparatus Therefor (open access)

Improvements in Processes of Distillation and Apparatus Therefor

Patent for improvements in processes of distillation and apparatus therefor in petroleum refineries.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Prichard, George L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improving Oils. (open access)

Improving Oils.

Patent for a method of improving the quality of more volatile petroleum oils, such as gasoline and burning oils.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: McAfee, Almer M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Burners (open access)

Improvements in Burners

Patent for improvements for burners. It is related explicitly to hydrocarbon burners. Its purpose is to keep the oil and steam separate as they leave the burner by keeping them in two separate streams.
Date: June 19, 1918
Creator: Trahan, Clair A
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trailer. (open access)

Trailer.

Patent for trailers for attachment to trucks that is strong and compact and will not be distorted by the turning of the trailer relative to the truck.
Date: August 31, 1920
Creator: Feigelson, Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trailing Device for Tractors and the Like (open access)

Trailing Device for Tractors and the Like

Patent for a device built to connect behind tractors and other farming vehicles. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Fiegelson, Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel

Patent for a new and useful improvement in hydraulic swivels by simplifying the structure and making the device more efficient and reliable.
Date: March 7, 1922
Creator: Black, Lee J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Purifying Oils (open access)

Purifying Oils

Patent that converts low grade petroleum into higher grade petroleum. The process warms aluminum chlorid with petroleum material in a nonviolent way to make a purifying oil.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: McAfee, Almer M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Purifying Paraffin. (open access)

Process of Purifying Paraffin.

Patent for improvements in the process of purifying paraffin wax.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: McAfee, Almer M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Price-Tag Holder. (open access)

Price-Tag Holder.

Patent for "an improvement in price tag holders" (lines 9-10) such that the price tag holder is connected to a garment hanger, including one illustration.
Date: August 30, 1921
Creator: Newton, Andre Hutt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History