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Cotton Seed Linter
Patent for the improvement of cotton lint linter parts and construction. Improvements to the parts remove cotton seed lint before entering the lint conveying flue.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B. & Henry, N.B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow and Pulverizer.
Patent for a combination plow and pulverizer, designed for the purpose of improved plowing and sowing of seed, with illustrations and explanations.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Curtis, W. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Flour and Process of Making the Same.
Patent for cotton-seed flour and the process for producing it, including removal of the oils and hulls.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Baumgarten, Gustav Adolph
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
Burner
Patent for a "simple and relatively inexpensive burner" (line 9) for use in the kitchen with kerosene or other oil fuel.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Catron, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Vacuum Dehydrator.
Patent for improvements in speed, cheapness, and more efficiency in continuous-vacuum dehydration and filtering for the purpose of extracting valuable ores with water including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Biesel, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Sign
Patent for large outdoor advertising sign that is inexpensive to illuminate but still catches attention by providing the illusion of movement.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Bur Separator.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating burs from cotton lint despite severe weather conditions, illustrations included.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Irwin, Samuel D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids.
Patent for dehydrating petroleum oil emulsions through liquid seperation.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Seperating Associated Liquids.
Patent for a new method of seperating liquids, specifically those "in which particles of one liquid are held, or bound in mechanical suspension in another" (lines 10-12). The inventor provides the specific example of water and crude oil.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trailer.
Patent for improved construction and arrangement of trailers. This improvement will allow an easy turning movement where a number of trailers are connected while admitting of strain between the various trailers when they are turning a corner or going around a curve.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Watkins, Leigh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like.
Patent for the Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the like. The invention is related to the improvement of the effective the hydrogenation process of fats, oils, waxes, and similar materials.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Transmission
Patent for improvements in power transmission by inventor Gordon R. Sturgis.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Sturgis, Gordon R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extracting Metals from Ores
Patent for the extraction of metals from ores by developing an improvement to the cynid process.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Biesel, C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sight Feed Measuring Device
Patent for a "sight-feed" (line 10), a measuring device that lets the user see how much gasoline is still available in the container. Specifically adaptable to commerical fuel pumps.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Terry, Graydon M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner
Patent for oil burner "in which the oil will be atomized by and thoroughly mixed with air or steam under pressure and if used in the presence of steam be preheated before admixture ... of use in power plants and in stoves, furnaces and the like" (lines 11-18).
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Mayer, E. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History