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Pipe-Gripping Device.
Patent for a device designed to hold and sustain a string of pipe in an elevated position during the process of unscrewing and separating it into sections, primarily used for drilling operations where pipes are connected and disconnected within a borehole.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Steen, Buford J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Serving-Table.
Patent for "a table...which is specially adapted for use in serving cold drinks, light lunches and the like to customers seated in an automobile or other similar vehicle" and the table "is adjustable so that it may be accommodated to vehicles of different heights" (lines 11-15, 18-19). It also contains an illustration.
Date:
September 27, 1921
Creator:
Boysen, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Signal for Vehicles.
Patent for a signal designed to be carried on the rear end of a motor vehicle for the purpose of indicating whether the vehicle intends to turn to the right or to the left, operated by the driver in advance.
Date:
September 13, 1921
Creator:
Mckesky, Walter W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Valve Lock.
Patent for new and useful improvements in gate valve lock. This invention is to improve locks for gate valves and other various valves with rotatable stems.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Madrin, Leonard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Support.
Patent for a new device that will improve mattress support, including illustrations. It is "designed to take the place of the ordinary spring now in common use and it is formed of inflatable units arranged to be inflated by the use of air, hot or cold water or other similar fluids" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Monks, Frederick I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Standing Valve
Patent for a Standing Valve. This standing valve is designed to improve the way the fluids pump through oil and water wells. it also includes an improvement in the way the standing valve is secured to the wells. The new valve can also be easily replaced because of the materials it is composed of.
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Adams, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a new and improved design of washing machines "which combines simplicity of construction with economy in operation" and helps "to minimize the opportunity for wear, breakage or derangement" (lines 30-35), including illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasolene-Measuring Device.
Patent for a device which allows for gasoline to be measured while under constant flow.
Date:
September 14, 1920
Creator:
McKallip, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Head
Patent for a casing head that is specially adapted for "use in connection with well drilling for letting the tubing down into the bore, and in withdrawing the tubing from the bore." (Lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1920
Creator:
McGarry, Henry S. & Carr, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Landing Device for Aeroplanes.
Patent for improvements in landing devices for aeroplanes that can be controlled by the aviator and adjusted with the direction of the plane's movement as it lands.
Date:
September 7, 1920
Creator:
Martin, Ernest L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for an improved pump valve designed for a pump for pumping oil from oil wells "which will not be affected by the fluid or gas pressure in the bore" (lines 17-18).
Date:
September 30, 1919
Creator:
Graf, Sydney H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Cleaning Pump-Valve
Patent for a pump valve used in pumping oil wells which cleans itself with sand. The valve is simple and cheaply manufactured.
Date:
September 30, 1919
Creator:
Graf, Sydney H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sample Taking Device.
Patent for a device that takes samples of the strata or formation through which a well is being drilled without mixing the soil with water within the reservoir.
Date:
September 19, 1919
Creator:
Rembert, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill
Patent for rotary boring-drill attachment for a rotary drill stem for drilling oil or water wells.
Date:
September 16, 1919
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Pipe Coupling
Patent for improvement on the methods of controlling oil flow.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Childs, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Apparatus
Patent for a new and improved well-boring apparatus that rotates a drill stem. The drill is then elevated when it is desired to unscrew the joints.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Headrick, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Projectile
Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date:
September 25, 1918
Creator:
Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Head
Patent for drill head improvements by inventor Clarence E. Reed.
Date:
September 24, 1918
Creator:
Reed, Clarence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that can burn "heavy substances [such] as fuel for locomotives, stationary boilers, kilns, heating furnaces and the like" (lines 15-17).
Date:
September 24, 1918
Creator:
Nicholson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Hydrocarbons
Patent for a new or improved process which distills heavy hydrocarbon oils into large volumes of gasoline or other lighter volatile liquids.
Date:
September 18, 1918
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin & Averill, Willard C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sapping or Destroying Trenches or Other Defensive Works.
Patent for a method of sapping or destroying trenches or other defensive works to use in military operations.
Date:
September 17, 1918
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters.
Patent for Improvements in Attachments for Internal-Combustion-Engine Carbureters. The "explosive mixture entering the cylinders of the engine may be improved and in this way increase the efficiency of the engine" (lines 12-15).
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Atkinson, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book with Removable Cover
Patent for a removable cover for a pass book (a book where a customer's bank deposit account is kept). When a customer's pass book is filled the cover can be removed and refilled with a new pass book.
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Malsch, Herman C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator-Car
Patent for a refrigerated train car "containing ice receptacles and equipped with pipe coils through which the brine given off from the ice may be circulated around the walls of the car" (p. 1, lines 10-15) which also circulates the cooled air through the car.
Date:
September 10, 1918
Creator:
Dietz, Maurice B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History