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Candy-Drying Machine.
Patent for a machine to dry and pack chocolate more uniformly without need for attendants, including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1915
Creator:
Greer, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment for Lister-plows
Patent for a colter attachment (triangular blade used on lister plows), by capitalizing on parts that should already exist on the plow.
Date:
April 27, 1915
Creator:
Mosely, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Yoke.
Patent for a cattle yoke which enables the yoke to be attached to a cow's head to prevent grazing from other side of the wire fence.
Date:
April 27, 1915
Creator:
Carr, Jessie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Container.
Patent for new improved containers adapted for the shipment of eggs, including illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1917
Creator:
Hall, Cyrus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.
Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Pair, Laura Costello
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding and Sinking Concrete Piling
Patent for methods and apparatus for forming and sinking piles, blocks, slabs, and concrete.
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Hildebrand, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf or Insert for Books
Patent for leaves and inserts in books and other paper documents. It is meant to "provide a printed sheet embodying certain novel features arranged so that it may be found in a book or catalogue as a leaf or page thereof or placed therein as an insert." (Lines 12-16)
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Seligson, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plumb-Level.
Patent for a modified and improved plumb-levels that allow for consistent and accurate readings, as well as the ability for the level to adjust after being harmed.
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Rutledge, Caleb C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Shelf Bracket
Patent for a new shelf bracket "which is angularly adjustable, and has for its object the provision of a novel shelf bracket which is adapted to be secured upon a ladder, table, post, or other place, and which may be angularly adjusted so as to form means for supporting articles in a horizontal position." (Lines 14-19) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Selstad, Ingvald E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap
Patent for Fly Trap
Date:
March 27, 1917
Creator:
Krueger, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner.
Patent for "the improvement of burners. The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of burners and to provide a simple, practical an comparatively inexpensive burner of strong and durable construction"
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Messerli, J.J. & Miller, Fred. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for clothes pins made from non-oxidizable wire, including illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Buckley, John Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Point and Bolt for Belts.
Patent for an invention provides means for securing bolts to elevator belts.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Guffee, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating and Carbureting Hydrogen.
Patent for an apparatus that will improve the cost efficiency of producing gas. Specifically, this invention details a "main tank which produces hydrogen and an auxiliary tank wherein the hydrogen is mixed with crude petroleum oil and thereby given its illuminating and combustible properties" (lines 18-23).
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Stuart, Charles V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for improved design and function in oil burners, specifically on fuel nozzle and needle valve, allowing for greater control of gas that flows through to create combustion.
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Butler, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door
Patent is for car door and support. It goes on to explain that the car door and support were created to serve as a means of forming an efficient rain-proof closure when the door is moved into closed position. Another object is to provide sufficient means for slide-able support for the door and locking mechanisms.
Date:
March 27, 1915
Creator:
Minton, S. F. & McClellen, R. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Holder.
Patent for an ink bottle holder that allows for sturdy tilting and prevents ink from spilling.
Date:
April 27, 1920
Creator:
Smith, Edwin Ruthven
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chuck.
Patent for chucks that secure pipes, preventing movement when being cut or threaded, including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1921
Creator:
Castanie, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.
Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
Date:
May 27, 1919
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.
Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 27, 1917
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Elevator.
Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date:
November 27, 1917
Creator:
Wright, Virgil Tilden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Sealing Tire-Punctures and the Like.
Patent for sealing tire punctures consisting of the extract obtained from boiling guayule and candelilla plants in water to which is added asbestos and fullers' earth.
Date:
November 27, 1917
Creator:
Garza, Ricardo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine.
Patent for a new and improved band-cutting and feeding attachment for thrashing machines. This design receives grain bundles "upon an endless traveling apron provided with teeth or claws, and by it conveyed under rotary cutters, which sever the bands, the grain being then scattered or spread out by a vibrating rake into a thin sheet as it passes to the toothed cylinder. The invention relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of parts" (paras. 3-4).
Date:
November 27, 1877
Creator:
O'Neall, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved funnel attachment for pouring. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting frame, a shaft journaled in the frame, a crank for rotating the shaft and carried by the frame, and a screw-conveyer carried by the shaft and having the smaller blades and the larger blade arranged above the [smaller] blades, and bearing against the funnel above the conducting tube thereof when the device is adjusted in the funnel" (lines 52-60).
Date:
July 27, 1886
Creator:
Charlton, James & Lynch, Hubbard Calhoon
System:
The Portal to Texas History