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Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.
Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Balke, Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney Cowl.
Patent for a chimney cowl with a manually controlled spark outlet
Date:
June 4, 1920
Creator:
Jezova, Mary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Tent.
Patent for improving collapsible tent rods and corner posts that support the structure, with illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Hackfield, Arnold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for generating acetylene gas" (lines 12-13). The apparatus includes a carbid receptacle with a conical bottom and a cylindrical valve for better control of the carbid, as well as a gas tank with a gasometer-bell which operates the system.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Lay, Claud
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack.
Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walling, Carl H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Hood Attachment.
Patent for a device that can be affixed to the hood of a car, preventing rainwater from leaking into the electricals under the hood and behind the dashboard.
Date:
February 15, 1921
Creator:
Gerhart, Joe P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snowplow.
Patent for a new snowplow design for use at the front of a motor vehicle, steam car, or electric car. The snowplow is triangular in shape, and has sides that can be adjusted vertically, to increase the height of the plow.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Jezova, Mary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sunken-Ship Indicator.
Patent for an object that can show the location a sunken boat from the surface of the water and can be carried in or by a boat and becomes operable once the boat sinks.
Date:
September 7, 1920
Creator:
Hlavaty, Joe, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Chute for Dipping-Vats.
Patent for new improvements that allow for easier transition of animals from a stock-chute into a dipping vat because the "animal will overcome the effect of the counterbalancing weight and will cause the discharge end of the chute to move downwardly precipitating the animal into the vat or trough" (lines 20-26) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Burt, Clement P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent introduces the inventor's specific improvements to oil-burning stoves. The air and oil are fed into the chamber of the stove and thoroughly mixed before burning.
Date:
August 24, 1920
Creator:
Beckman, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Discharge Device for Cotton-Seed Unloaders.
Patent for a discharge device in which cotton seed can be unloaded to an elevator, conveyer, or elsewhere. The invention also has the ability to clean and cool the cotton seed while being unloaded, also making it dry which makes it in better condition for storing.
Date:
May 18, 1920
Creator:
Golloher, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Nozzle.
Patent for a new cotton picking nozzle that can be used with a suction device to pick cotton more efficiently, including illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1920
Creator:
Taylor, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button
Patent for a button that holds articles of clothing securely with a combination of rings
Date:
January 11, 1916
Creator:
Karger, Rose
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate
Patent fora collapsible crate used specifically for "shipping poultry or other live animals" (lines 11-12).
Date:
March 23, 1915
Creator:
Master, Chester A. & Wolnitzek, Oscar T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.
Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Gollmer, Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator.
Patent for a ventilating cowl for buildings for fire prevention by causing smoke and sparks to pass outside of a building or deflate to the surface below. The cowl is cone shaped with a deflecting surface and has several rings through which smoke and sparks can pass through to the outside.
Date:
November 30, 1915
Creator:
Ashorn, Inshrish
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food
Patent for a food stock product for cows, sheep, goats and other herbivore farm animals.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Corn Hanger.
Patent for Seed-Corn Hangers "for holding ears of seed-corn during the period of drying".
Date:
July 6, 1915
Creator:
Weaver, Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel
Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Haferkamp, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway
Patent for an elevated railway track system including motorized elevators in each tower/station/terminal to access the railcar platform.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Hinsen, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus to form bats, made of fibrous material, to be placed in the coverings or tickings to make mattresses. The apparatus works so that "the bat-forming fibrous material may be evenly distributed, and by which the mattress-forming operation may be expeditiously carried on" (lines 16-19). The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel & Haynes, Richard H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Tester
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Seed-Testers" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Weaver, Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
"Patent for a bale-tie that would be 'simple of construction, durable of use, and comparatively inexpensive of production, easily operated, and which when fastened around a bale cannot possible become detached therefrom' (lines 13-17). including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1900
Creator:
Pfeffer, Albert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cut-Out for Windmills
Patent for a windmill part which stops the windmill from running when the water tank is full.
Date:
July 16, 1907
Creator:
Roesler, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History