Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil

Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Straightener (open access)

Wheel-Straightener

Patent for a wheel straightener that can straighten wheels without removing the tires.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Ray, Carry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper (open access)

Stalk-Chopper

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Scott, Oscar Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Box Oil-Cup (open access)

Journal-Box Oil-Cup

Patent for an oil cup for lubricating journal boxes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Alexander, Colwell Hyman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that can burn "heavy substances [such] as fuel for locomotives, stationary boilers, kilns, heating furnaces and the like" (lines 15-17).
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Nicholson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stand-Value for Oil-Well Pumps. (open access)

Stand-Value for Oil-Well Pumps.

Patent for a Stand-Value for Oil-Well Pumps so that the ball seat in an oil well pump does not work loose. This is also meant to be turned end for end so that the part's life is lengthened. With this being done, the utility of the oil-pump should now be enhanced.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Gas (open access)

Process of Producing Gas

Patent for a carbon monoxide gas producer. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Perhalates (open access)

Process of Producing Perhalates

Patent for an improved process of producing perhalates, perchlorates, and their corresponding acids.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Schoch, Eugene Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Trough (open access)

Feed-Trough

Patent for a feed trough for chickens and other small animals.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Davis, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Head (open access)

Drill-Head

Patent for drill head improvements by inventor Clarence E. Reed.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Reed, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Wheel (open access)

Spring-Wheel

Patent for a wheel supported by spring spokes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Hudson, Alexander S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine (open access)

Flying-Machine

Patent for a flying machine with rotating feathered wings and propellers with an included emergency parachute like apparatus for landing the machine safely in case of malfunction.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Hardgrave, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine (open access)

Flying-Machine

Patent for a monoplane flying machine. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Smith, Thomas Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence Fabric. (open access)

Fence Fabric.

Patent for a new kind of fence fabric that lays flatter, can be made more efficiently, and slips less.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Dobkins, Pearl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight. (open access)

Dirigible Headlight.

Patent for improvements in dirigible headlights. This headlight is used for automobiles and self-propelled vehicles where the usual headlights are directed to throw their beams of light in the direction of travel upon actuating the steering mechanism.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Harris, Robert L. & Geeslin, Eli M.
System: The Portal to Texas History