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Salad Dressing (open access)

Salad Dressing

Patent for improving salad dressing. This salad dressing has high quality ingredients to go with any salad.
Date: November 20, 1923
Creator: Scholl, William H. & Scholl, Barney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #2] (open access)

Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #2]

Patent for a spring motor "particularly designed for use in connection with bicycles, polycycles, and all foot-propelled vehicles, but applicable also to all kinds of vehicles, as well as street and railway cars" (lines 11-15). It is intended to accumulate surplus power for use in propelling a vehicle up an incline, or for other propulsion either forward or backward.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #1] (open access)

Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #1]

Patent for a spring motor "particularly designed for use in connection with bicycles, polycycles, and all foot-propelled vehicles, but applicable also to all kinds of vehicles, as well as street and railway cars" (lines 11-15). It is intended to accumulate surplus power for use in propelling a vehicle up an incline, or for other propulsion either forward or backward.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Linter (open access)

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
Bill-Posting Blanking Device. (open access)

Bill-Posting Blanking Device.

Patent for bill-posting blanking device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Gallia, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Rim. (open access)

Collapsible Rim.

Patent for new and useful improvements related to demountable rims that are collapsible. This improvement facilitates the removal of a tire in an easier and expeditious manner.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: King, Willis C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Core-Taking Device (open access)

Core-Taking Device

Patent for improvements to a core-taking device which will "form a core, in the process of drilling, and embodies means for severing the core, when formed, and retaining the same in the core barrel until, it is withdrawn for inspection" (lines 13-17), including illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1922
Creator: Christian, Walton G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow and Pulverizer. (open access)

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. (open access)

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
Combined Adding and Listing Machine. (open access)

Combined Adding and Listing Machine.

Patent for new improvements on combined adding and listing machines simplifying and economizing construction and facilitating, "rapidity of operation" (lines14-15). Improvements include: "causing the keys to act directly as stops for the adding wheel section; to provide novel accumulator mechanism...[with] a novel actuator; to provide a novel construction or sector-control bar; to provide a novel key-bar for operating...; to provide novel means for restoring the accumulator to normal; to provide stop mechanism to permit the carryovers of the accumulator...;to provide novel means for restoring the sectors to normal; to provide improved means for holding the accumulator in operative or inoperative position...; to provide novel means for connecting the accumulator sectors with the type sectors; 5o provide novel means for connecting the accumulator sectors with the type sectors; to provide novel means for actuating the hammer and paper feed mechanism; to provide improved general-error key mechanism; to provide an improved construction and operation of key-bar and sector-control bar; to permit of the operation of elimination" (lines 15-46).
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: McCaleb, Walter F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer. (open access)

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 (open access)

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
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Ogden, James D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Vacuum Dehydrator. (open access)

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
Adjustable Footrest. (open access)

Adjustable Footrest.

Patent for an improved, adjustable foot rest that allows for more adjustments and range of motion "to any desired position for the comfort of the user" (lines 13-14), and is secured to the floor.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Kingsford, Walter E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Sign (open access)

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
Boiler-Skimmer (open access)

Boiler-Skimmer

Patent for a boiler-skimmer that assist in preventing external pressures from collapsing the float values. These type of boilers are used in steam locomotives.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: Schreiber, Norbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Seal. (open access)

Car-Door Seal.

Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date: October 20, 1916
Creator: Wright, Memory G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book-Holding Device (open access)

Book-Holding Device

Patent for a book-holding device that will keep books open by holding back turned pages, with illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Barry, David Redmond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock-Actuated Display Apparatus. (open access)

Clock-Actuated Display Apparatus.

Patent for a clock actuated display apparatus comprising a casing, a spring-pressed rotatable reel, and display tape adapted to wind which will cause the drum to rotate.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Shure, Ralph Deane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifreezing Appliance for Water-Pipes. (open access)

Antifreezing Appliance for Water-Pipes.

Patent for anti-freezing appliance for water supply and drain pipes of residences and buildings. The object is provide a device connected with the main and service lines of a hours supply water system for the purpose of avoiding interfering with the operation of the service.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Davis, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Bur Separator. (open access)

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
Combination-Flue. (open access)

Combination-Flue.

Patent for the improvement of combination flue to be more inexpensive and for the parts to be more readily assembled and properly supported.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Carl, Reinhold Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Linting Machine. (open access)

Cotton Seed Linting Machine.

Patent for Improvements of the Cotton-Seed-Linting Machine. This improvement will allow for better stripping and cleaning of cotton lint.
Date: February 20, 1919
Creator: Voorhees, Flex E.
System: The Portal to Texas History