Brick-Mason's Steel Trig. (open access)

Brick-Mason's Steel Trig.

Patent for brick mason's steel trig that is designed to hold a straight, horizontal line at the top of a brick wall.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: Lake, Clyde A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
De-Aerator (open access)

De-Aerator

Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Strite, Frank S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for improvements in churns, "specifically a churn disclosed in Patent No. 1268766, L. M. Payne, R. A. Thompson and L. P. Morris, June 4, 1918."
Date: March 9, 1919
Creator: Wilson, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Removing Useful Fiber from Seeds (open access)

Mechanism for Removing Useful Fiber from Seeds

Patent for an adaptation to machines that will "remove fibers from their attachments, such as gins, cotton seed linters, wool-burring machines, and the like" (lines 10-12).
Date: August 9, 1919
Creator: Vardell, Arthur A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disinfecting Apparatus (open access)

Disinfecting Apparatus

Patent for an improved bottle for the purposes of carefully applying disinfecting fluid. The patent describes and illustrates a bottle that can be sold as-is, with an apparatus that releases the liquid drop by drop to prevent waste.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Peck, Walter H. & Alford, L. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Suction-Cup for Cotton-Picking Machines (open access)

Improvement to Suction-Cup for Cotton-Picking Machines

Patent for the improvement in suction-cups for cotton-picking machines in which the addition of knives allows for easier collection of cotton. Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Meier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks (open access)

Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks

Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: De Long, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tramper-Press (open access)

Tramper-Press

Patent for a tramper press for pressing cotton into bales. Illustrations included.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Concrete Silos and the Like. (open access)

Mold for Concrete Silos and the Like.

Patent for a mold for concrete silos that improves on efficiency.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Doyle, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Traction-Lug (open access)

Tire Traction-Lug

Patent for tire traction-lug preventing slipping of the wheel in mud, sand, snow, slush, and other soft road-beds.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Smith, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Apparatus for Sizing and Separating Comminuted Material (open access)

Process of Apparatus for Sizing and Separating Comminuted Material

Patent for new and useful improvements in process and apparatus for sizing and separating comminuted materials. This is the fifth patent and improves on the previous four patents.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process Of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Material. (open access)

Process Of and Apparatus for Separating and Grading Material.

Patent for improvements in the process of and apparatus for separating and grading material. "Improvement upon our Patent #1,073,644, issued September 23, 1913, for a 'Separating table and process of separation'" (lines 14-17). Object of invention is to improve the general construction of separating table.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timing Mechanism for Automatic Oil Pumping Systems. (open access)

Timing Mechanism for Automatic Oil Pumping Systems.

Patent for a timing mechanism for automatic oil-pumping systems, which adds improvements to a previous patent (Serial No.788,483). This patent includes a "novel mechanism for controlling the alternate action of a pressure and vacuum directed into a well" from the surface instead of the lower portion of the well (lines 33-35). Patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Stephenson, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Faucet-Drain (open access)

Faucet-Drain

Patent for a faucet drain attachment that allows for the draining of pipes eliminating the need for opening of faucet. This invention helps to prevent damage to pipes.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Eaton, Bruce E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bookcase (open access)

Folding Bookcase

Patent for a folding bookcase that can be manufactured with any number of shelves.
Date: July 9, 1912
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Silent Self-Adjusting Push-Rod. (open access)

Silent Self-Adjusting Push-Rod.

Patent for a self-adjusting push rod intended to reduce engine stress and noise.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Russell, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garbage Burning Furnace (open access)

Garbage Burning Furnace

Patent for a new and useful garbage burning furnace that burns garbage efficiently in a combustion chamber. Illustrations are included.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Stokes, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Planter. (open access)

Peanut-Planter.

Patent for a peanut planter that dispenses a single peanut from the seed cans in to the feed wheel's cells.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Wilson, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Signal Device (open access)

Telephone Signal Device

Patent for telephone signal device.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Boyd, Ura M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Display Rack (open access)

Mattress-Display Rack

Patent for a mattress rack that will allow mattresses to be displayed in a titled position for display and advertising purposes including illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Fisher, Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paving for Streets and the Like (open access)

Paving for Streets and the Like

Patent for paving for streets and the like invention relates to paving with specific constructions for high efficiency in resisting wear.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Stubbs, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disappearing Coffin Panel (open access)

Disappearing Coffin Panel

Patent for improvements to disappearing coffin panels. This invention allows coffin interiors to be inspected without taking the coffin lid off. These disappearing coffin lids will not change the ornamental appearance of the coffin lid.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Fisher, Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
Date: May 9, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for getting a good knowledge on how to use a cultivator, detailed instructions are provided.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Blalock, Justice E.
System: The Portal to Texas History