Resource Type

Road Building Machine (open access)

Road Building Machine

Patent for a road building machine comprised of multiple mechanisms including a blast furnace, mixing chambers, and chemical tanks.
Date: December 6, 1921
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overhead Radial Conveyer System. (open access)

Overhead Radial Conveyer System.

Patent for a freight and merchandise handling system utilizing overhead conveyor belts to move items going to/from either a warehouse facility or an applicable mode of supply chain transportation.
Date: December 6, 1920
Creator: Wohn, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Fly Catcher and Trap. (open access)

Sanitary Fly Catcher and Trap.

Patent for improvements in traps to bait flies and trap them.
Date: July 6, 1920
Creator: Harris, Raymond J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiber-Cleaning Device. (open access)

Fiber-Cleaning Device.

Patent for a fiber cleaning device, which removes "the outer fleshy or non-fibrous tissues covering the fibers" (lines 19-21) for varieties of fleshy plants.
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Quijano, Ramon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Wheel (open access)

Spring-Wheel

Patent for a spring wheel. Gebhardt describes the wheel as "an improvement... to provide resilient spokes which are connected to the hub and felly of the wheel in a manner to take up vibration and shocks imparted to the wheel in traveling or passing over obstructions and rough roads (p. 1, lines 8-15)." The patent also adds provisions for easy removal of spokes and a sectional felly and hub.
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Gebhardt, W.
System: The Portal to Texas History