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Boring-Bit. (open access)

Boring-Bit.

Patent for a boring drill. The invention creates a new means "for connecting the constituent members of the head so as to provide novel means for assembling the head with a driving element" (lines 19-22).
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Larnce, John B.; Townsend, S. L. & Keith, Aubrey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comb. (open access)

Comb.

Patent for an electronic heating comb providing an electric heating element.
Date: November 10, 1920
Creator: Caneavri, Joseph Ping.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dynamo Electric Machine (open access)

Dynamo Electric Machine

Patent for Improvement of Dynamo-Electric Machines. The improvement turns electric energy into mechanical entry.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Reynolds, William T. & Reynolds, Bruce A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
File-Cabinet. (open access)

File-Cabinet.

Patent for combination safe or revolving file cabinet to provide a safe operable means for compartments of batches of papers. Illustration is provided.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Whitlow, Alamander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ignition-Tube Heater (open access)

Ignition-Tube Heater

Patent for "fire prevention, or explosions, by gas or oil surrounding the heater of the ignition-tube of a gas engine." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Kincade, Elmer C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Apparatus for Concentrating Acid (open access)

Improvements in Apparatus for Concentrating Acid

Patent for an apparatus for concentrating acid. This apparatus relates to concentrating weak acid taken from petroleum sludge.
Date: October 10, 1911
Creator: Gray, Elisha Burritt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Purifying Oils (open access)

Method of Purifying Oils

Patent for a new and useful improvement in the method of purifying oils, particularly applicable to cracked gasoline.
Date: January 10, 1922
Creator: Alexander, Clive M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pan Lifter and Turner. (open access)

Pan Lifter and Turner.

Patent for a pan lifter and turner using a bent handle, a curved plate is secured at the end of the bent handle; extending upward from the curved plate with a series of teeth to engages the crimped rim of a pan for lifting. At both ends of the curved plate provided with curved notches or recesses to receive and engage the rim of a pan for turning. Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1891
Creator: Ericson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polishing-Machine (open access)

Polishing-Machine

Patent for a metal polisher. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Nichols, Charlie M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw. (open access)

Screw.

Patent for a new and improved screw. This design consists in "[a] screw, the body and shank of which are of corresponding diameter throughout their length, the shank terminating in a rounded end, and the shank and body being provided with a longitudinal straight channel extending throughout their lengths, one of the terminal shoulders of the channel being removed" (lines 4-10).
Date: June 10, 1890
Creator: Ericson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool Joint. (open access)

Tool Joint.

Patent for a screw-threaded tool joint used for drill pipes on rotary drilling rigs.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Lyle, Henry Claude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Valve-Operating Mechanism

Patent for Valve Operating Mechanism that includes "new and useful improvements" (lines 5-6), and "has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient means for operating a valve at a distance" (lines 10-12).
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Baurens, Jean Marie, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History