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ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS (open access)

ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS

Patent for an Attachment for Internal Combustion Motors. This new attachment provides many improvements in the regulation of auxiliary air, whether it enters or leaves the internal combustion motor (Shine). It also regulates hot or cold air, or can shut off the air supply entirely (Shine).
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Shine, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Floor System. (open access)

Floor System.

Patent for improved T-beams for floor support, which improve bonding between the beams and poured flooring and columns.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Moore, Stuart B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Single-Trigger Mechanism for Double-Barrel Guns. (open access)

Single-Trigger Mechanism for Double-Barrel Guns.

Patent for a new single-trigger mechanism for double-barrel guns in which both barrels fire successively and premature discharge is prevented, including illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Lindsay, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tool. (open access)

Tire-Tool.

Patent for a tool designed for mounting pneumatic tires on wheel rims.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Boone, Daniel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horizontal-Drilling Machine (open access)

Horizontal-Drilling Machine

Patent for a horizontally boring drill for use in trench warfare, including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle-Headlights. (open access)

Attachment for Vehicle-Headlights.

Patent for attachment for vehicle headlights. The invention has a deflecting hood for the head light that deflects the light downward, below the line of sight, particularly for oncoming vehicles
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Burns, Bessie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anticreeper for Railway Rails. (open access)

Anticreeper for Railway Rails.

Patent for an anti-creeper with improved strength and serviceability "in the location and construction of the tie abutting portion" (lines 28-29).
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses. (open access)

Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses.

Patent for an attachment for bale-forming presses consisting of needles, wire storage spools, and a "yieldable mechanism" allowing the wire to pass (line 17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Freeman, Lawrence K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Maximum-Speed Controller (open access)

Automatic Maximum-Speed Controller

Patent for improvements is construction and adaptation of a gear pump.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Press. (open access)

Bale Forming Press.

Patent for a bale forming press to form bales of hay and automatically secure "baling wires around the bale as formed" (lines 13-14). It automatically stops the feeder when "the bale is being tied" (lines 19-20) and winds and automatically unwinds and winds the wire.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Drill. (open access)

Rotary Boring Drill.

Patent for rotary boring drills with fish-tail bits to improve uniformity, steadiness, and clearance.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twister. (open access)

Twister.

Patent for a twister used in "twisting together the ends of the baling wires employed in forming bales of hay" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twisting Device. (open access)

Twisting Device.

Patent for a twisting machine that can tie and secure cords around bales while reducing the likelihood of slipping inside the tying machine, including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew Tilmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill. (open access)

Rotary Boring-Drill.

Patent for improvements to rotary boring drills that enable a drill to be assembled and disassembled without a tool and that ensure the removable cutters do not come off during operation.
Date: June 26, 1917
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rim Breaker (open access)

Rim Breaker

Patent for Rim Breaker
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Du Bois, Homer. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drive-Wheel for Traction-Engines (open access)

Drive-Wheel for Traction-Engines

Patent for a drive wheel for traction engines which has retractable wheel lugs. The wheel lugs used for traction on dirt roads can be "pivoted so that they may be withdrawn when not needed," such as when traveling on pavement.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Wellensiek, Louis H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel

Patent for a hydraulic swivel to be used with rotary well drilling machines which will carry water to the drill head through a supply line and maintain that supply line in a given position during drilling operation.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Putty-Trowel (open access)

Putty-Trowel

Patent for a putty trowel which will lay a line of putty and trowel it into place to secure glass in a window sash.
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Morris, James G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineral-Prospecting Apparatus. (open access)

Mineral-Prospecting Apparatus.

Patent for an "apparatus for drilling and obtaining samples or specimens of minerals" (lines 12-13), and obtaining accurate samples of ores in situations where they would otherwise be washed away by water or broken apart. The patent includes illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Cup. (open access)

Oil-Cup.

Patent for an oil cup to be used for lubricating bearings that can be regulated with a valve to control the flow of the lubricant.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Dawley, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cistern-Guard. (open access)

Cistern-Guard.

Patent for a device that guards the water cistern against impure water which drains from the roof of a building to which the cistern appertains.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Johnson, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Connection (open access)

Pipe Connection

Patent for a pipe connection for metal pipes that allows sections of pipe to be easily connected together and bent into different shapes for use in trains.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Schulz, Wilhelm
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ignition Regulator (open access)

Ignition Regulator

Patent for an ignition regulator that keeps the explosions in an internal combustion engine going at a regular rate.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Carpenter John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for light weight wheels for use in wheelbarrows and trucks, which are capable of handling large, heavy loads and lubricating its own hub bearings.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Heibeck, John
System: The Portal to Texas History