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Well Screen.
Patent for a well screen device. The device can keep particulates out of the well water while also restricting water to flow into the well without being released back into the soil.
Date:
February 1, 1921
Creator:
McLean, Marrs
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater.
Patent for a water heater for use in creating steam for oil and gas boilers, which heats faster than previous models.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Hardie, Jeffie Watkins
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Wheel
Patent for a water wheel adapted for use in running machinery such as pumps. It uses a series of connected buckets mounted to turn on an axle, alternately charging the buckets with water.
Date:
January 30, 1912
Creator:
Verde, Giuliano
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave Motor
Patent for an improvement to wave motors, intended to use "the force of waves as motive power for operating machinery" (lines 9-10).
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Ford, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Hauling Locomotive.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in log hauling locomotives, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Fletcher, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator
Patent for a lubricator used for lubricating graphite that is utilized in air brake systems. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Turner, William Orris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bailing Apparatus
Patent for specifications of Well Bailing Apparatus.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Carroll, Monroe W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lightning-Protecting System for Oil-Tanks.
Patent for an improved system that is used for protecting oil tanks from getting struck by lightning and can get put on existing structures to ground them. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
March 14, 1916
Creator:
Gunthorpe, Charles Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building-Block.
Patent for building block that is easily formed or molded. The building block forms tiers to easy move around and modify.
Date:
February 1, 1921
Creator:
Pace, Vara L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fuel-Changing Valve.
Patent for Automatic Fuel Changing Valve. The purpose of the invention is to provide a mechanism that switches to another gas supply when the one which is feeding the system runs low.
Date:
March 26, 1918
Creator:
Connelly, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Loading Mechanism.
Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with means for locking said legs in a vertical position" (lines 23-30).
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Fletcher, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Loader.
Patent for improvements in a machine that hauls logs and loads them on railways, based on a patent application submitted by the inventor previously (serial no. 563,242). A swinging crane loads and unloads the logs.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Carrier.
Patent for a log-carrier with an improved construction from a previous patent (No. 539,380). Improvements include a change in "the angle of strain of the draft-chain as the lever approaches the horizontal position...when the load is elevated" (lines 34-37). It also maintains "a uniform leverage without the use of guide-rollers or other means" (lines 54-56), and balances the sliding tongue so that "the team is relieved of the weight thereof" (line 62).
Date:
December 8, 1896
Creator:
Carroll, Joseph Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Strap Fastener.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple trunk strap fastener meant to "insure a strong tightening of the same without resorting to the old laborious method of buckling the strap about the baggage, while at the same time the invention also contemplates the employment of a specific arrangement of the strap about the article being bound therewith, in combination with the fastener proper whereby a stronger and more efficient strapping is effected" (lines 16-25).
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Webb, William James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve For Oil Wells
Patent for a valve for oil wells. This invention is designed to control the flow of oil during drilling. Illustration included.
Date:
September 19, 1905
Creator:
Bernard, Horace D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Burner
Patent for a vapor burner. Illustration included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Todd, Clarence C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver.
Patent for a life preserver with features to support both a wearer's waist and neck.
Date:
August 12, 1913
Creator:
Hansen, Carl Albert Edvard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve. Illustration included.
Date:
August 17, 1909
Creator:
Smith, Frederick C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tubular Tank Inspector And Gage
Patent for a tubular tank inspector and gage. This invention is designed for the measuring level of fluids in the tank. Illustration included.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Gregson, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Wall And Floor Brace
Patent for wall and floor brace. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Ettler, John Adolph & Sutherland, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver.
Patent for life preserver worn on the human body and inflated with a valve attached to rubber tubes. Includes illustration.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Graham, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Injector-Burner
Patent for an injector burner which "consumes a mixture of oil and steam" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Wiggs, James A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Distillation and Apparatus Therefor
Patent for improvements in processes of distillation and apparatus therefor in petroleum refineries.
Date:
April 30, 1918
Creator:
Prichard, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History