Book or Music Leaf Turner. (open access)

Book or Music Leaf Turner.

Patent for a music page turner, which can be operated by a lever or foot pedal.
Date: October 22, 1907
Creator: Alrich, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condenser. (open access)

Condenser.

Patent for a condenser for a hot water heater for use in homes.
Date: October 8, 1907
Creator: Nenninger, Oscar Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Indian Club and Dumb-Bell. (open access)

Combined Indian Club and Dumb-Bell.

Patent for a combined Indian club and dumbbell, which are easily interchanged and having varying weights.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Burr, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor (open access)

Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor

This document is a patent for the invention of the Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor. According to its inventor Frank M. Bell, the object of this mechanism is to fire aerial projectiles or torpedoes more accurately at their intended target. This mechanism can be called an anti-observation balloon/zeppelin weapon and it would see some usage by the Allied air forces during this conflict.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Bell, Frank M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating or Concentrating Ores. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating or Concentrating Ores.

Patent for an improvement to hydraulic separators used in frothing classification to increase the recovery of larger mineral particles.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Cole, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Screen or Awning Holder (open access)

Window Screen or Awning Holder

Patent for a window screen or awning holder. Illustrations included.
Date: October 11, 1904
Creator: Wolf, Wilhelm Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Woodworking-Clamp. (open access)

Woodworking-Clamp.

Patent for woodworking clamp that is adjustable so that it can be used with many different shapes and sizes.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Seidel, Emil K. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tube-Mill. (open access)

Tube-Mill.

Patent for improvements in tube-mills (employed for ore and other substances) which is meant to help support and drive rotating drums or cylinders of the mills allowing for more full appearances.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Bergman, Julius G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a windmill with vanes that can compensate for varying wind speeds without being damaged by high winds.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Ochoa, Victor Leaton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Signal (open access)

Vehicle-Signal

Patent for vehicle signal with accompanying illustrations.
Date: October 23, 1917
Creator: Edmond, George Woodbridge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protector for Detonator-Caps. (open access)

Protector for Detonator-Caps.

Patent for a detonator cap that acts as a "protecting device...to seal the inner end of the cap into which the adjacent end of the fuse is projected in use." (lines 13-16)
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Dillard, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Cleaning Device (open access)

Well Cleaning Device

Patent for a device to clean a well to prevent pumps from being clogged.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Kilburn, John Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gearing for Station-Indicators. (open access)

Transmission-Gearing for Station-Indicators.

Patent for a transmission device that indicates railway stations. The transmission gear can affix to any railway or street car. The transmission gearing helps to indicate (or display) accurately the names of stations or streets in conservative order.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Tarbell, Cassius C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor (open access)

Hydraulic Motor

Patent for a hydraulic motor. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Schaefer, Herbert Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Guide (open access)

Paper-Guide

Patent for a paper guide for paper and carbon paper for typewriters.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Davis, Alice Urilla
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Handle (open access)

Tool-Handle

Patent for a tool handle for saws. Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: McDermid, Archie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Changing Gear. (open access)

Speed-Changing Gear.

Patent for an automatic speed changing gear for trains.
Date: October 27, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Leaching Copper Ores (open access)

Process of Leaching Copper Ores

Patent for "a method of recovering copper by the electrolysis of copper solutions of any suitable kind, obtained by the lixiviation of the ore" (lines 9-12). The improvement in this method is that almost all the sulfuric acid and other leaching agents are used up prior to the copper going to the electrolysis tanks which increases the amount of copper recovered and the reduction of accumulated biproducts.
Date: October 22, 1918
Creator: Hahn, Albert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projecting-Machine. (open access)

Projecting-Machine.

Patent for improvements to a projector that relate to advertising. The inventor references adjustments to a previous patent, No. 1069521 from August 5, 1913. Adjustments include making the device more accurate and reliable, and to adapt it to be able to display opaque surfaces, postcards, and other printed items during any time of day. Additionally, the revoluble slide magazine has a mechanism that allows it to operate continuously without assistance from the operator.
Date: October 7, 1919
Creator: Bernard, Oscar C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thickener and Means for Removing Settled Solids Therefrom. (open access)

Thickener and Means for Removing Settled Solids Therefrom.

Patent for a machine which can automatically and continuously remove thickened material, which is a byproduct of wet milling ores. "The present device has been particularly designed to permit feed and discharge to be on the same level or for that matter the constant density discharge may be above or below the level of the feed stream, as may best fit the conditions of the particular installation" (lines 39-45).
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrolytic Cell (open access)

Electrolytic Cell

Patent for an electrolytic cell. "This invention relates to electrolytic cells especially adapted and intended for the electrolyzing of the sulfates of the alkalies to obtain sulfuric acid and alkaline hydrates" (lines 10-13). Illustration included.
Date: October 31, 1905
Creator: Anderson, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Device (open access)

Saw-Filing Device

Patent for an improved saw filing machine. Illustration is included
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Barger, Bernard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Operating Device. (open access)

Switch-Operating Device.

Patent for Switch-Operating Device. Invented to be operated from lead car or end car without having to stop train.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: McCombs, Marshall M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Cot Or Bed (open access)

Folding Cot Or Bed

Patent for a folding cot or bed. Illustration included.
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Gusdorf, Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History