Automatic Separating Device. (open access)

Automatic Separating Device.

Patent for an automatic separating device. This device operates with a link that connects the float level at the top of the tank with a valve handle at the bottom of the tank to control discharge from the tank.
Date: January 22, 1918
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Low-Water Alarm For Boilers (open access)

Low-Water Alarm For Boilers

Patent for "improvements in low water alarms for steam boilers and more particularly to those which are operated by the heat from the steam in the boiler, after the water therein has fallen below a predetermined danger point" (lines 15-20).
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Anderson, Williamson D. & Shearer, Edward J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Gas. (open access)

Process of Producing Gas.

Patent for a new method of making gas. The process is a simple and efficient method of making gas continuously, including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Job Press Standardizer (open access)

Job Press Standardizer

Patent for job press.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: McMath, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hot Water Heating System (open access)

Hot Water Heating System

Patent for an improvement to open fire water heating systems in buildings.
Date: January 12, 1917
Creator: McChesney, Louis P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grade-Indicator. (open access)

Grade-Indicator.

Patent for a grade indicator designed for land, air, and sea vehicles. It provides both lateral and longitudinal inclination with a simple construction.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: Shemeley, Jesse B. & Shemeley, Marion E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Excavator and Conveyer. (open access)

Excavator and Conveyer.

Patent for an excavator machine designed "to continuously excavate the ground at different elevations, as in ditching or cutting away embankments" (lines 15-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Lee, James Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch (open access)

Railway-Switch

Patent for improvements in railway switches which are especially adapted for use on street railway tracks.
Date: January 20, 1914
Creator: Craig, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for windmill
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: MacEwen, Benjamin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Filing Block and Sawing Board (open access)

Combination Filing Block and Sawing Board

Patent for jewelrs combination wood filing block, and a sawing board.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Stillians, Harry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie and Fastening Device. (open access)

Rail Tie and Fastening Device.

Patent for improved railroad cross ties that can be used in reverse, prevent creeping rails, and be economically manufactured.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Bergen, James V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Insact Trap. (open access)

Electric Insact Trap.

Patent for an electric insect trap that highly efficient trap for electrocuting house flies and similar insects, include illustrations.
Date: January 20, 1914
Creator: Craig, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cover for Culinary Utensils. (open access)

Cover for Culinary Utensils.

Patent for improvements in covers for culinary vessels in which “the cover will confine the odors arise from the vessel and at the same time the steam may be allowed to escape at any time without removing the cover from the vessel.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Reeves, Bell N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power Apparatus. (open access)

Horse-Power Apparatus.

Patent for an improved horse-power apparatus for hay baling presses. "A pair of cables are arranged in frictional driving relation to one of which cables the house power is applied, while the other serves the purpose of communicating...to the baling press or other power-receiving parts".
Date: January 28, 1919
Creator: North, George W. & Andreas, H. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History