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Box-Car-Door Fastener (open access)

Box-Car-Door Fastener

Patent for a box car door fastener.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Hooton, Pinkie D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an improvement to aeroplanes which includes movable horizontal and vertical planes (or curtains).
Date: February 25, 1911
Creator: Blewett, Baxter W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for the invention of a new conveyor, designed to simplify handling sacked grain.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: King, Marion A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for a windmill attachment that will increase the pumping capacity of windmills or other lifting pumps.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Engle, Matthew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence. (open access)

Wire Fence.

Patent for a wire fence that allows for easy tightening of the wires.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Miller, Daniel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for windmill "utilizing a horizontally movable wheel" (line 10) that keeps a steady rotation and will have a wing tripping element that can either lock the wings or shift wings at proper time, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Lindsey, James Owen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Target-Controlled Roundabouts (open access)

Improvements in Target-Controlled Roundabouts

Patent for a target-controlled roundabout comprised of a "revoluble member arranged to be operated by a plunger" (lines 11-12).
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Lero, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Automatic Advertising Devices (open access)

Improvements in Automatic Advertising Devices

Patent for an automatic advertising device that can show various signs or display cards and provides "an endless belt of transparent material which is differently colored" (lines 12-15) so that the sign may be "artistically changed" (lines 17-18). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Murphey, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tree and Shrub Protector. (open access)

Tree and Shrub Protector.

Patent for a tree and shrub protector particularly for house plants to protect them from cold weather, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Carstens, Julius J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process For Treating Crude Oil (open access)

Process For Treating Crude Oil

Patent for a process to treat crude oil.
Date: March 8, 1912
Creator: Barnickel, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device (open access)

Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device

Patent for brackets used to hold edible fluids to be frozen.
Date: March 29, 1912
Creator: Beckworth, Effie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Electrostatic Separation. (open access)

Process of Electrostatic Separation.

Patent for new improvements to Processes of Electrostatic Separation, "particularly to a process where the comminuted material subjected to the influence of an electrostatic field" (lines 12-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella-Holder (open access)

Umbrella-Holder

Patent for an umbrella holder. Illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Rauch, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Separator. (open access)

Oil-Separator.

Patent for the invention of a new oil separator with all its descriptions.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Latham, Reginald W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Box-Transmission System (open access)

Mail-Box-Transmission System

Patent for improvements in mail box transmission systems. The invention aims to facilitate the retrieval of the mail through a cable transmission system in rural communities.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: McGee, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevils (open access)

Process of Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevils

Patent for a formula for an insecticide for the Mexican cotton boll weevil.
Date: March 4, 1912
Creator: Newell, Wilmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Manufacturing Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Process of Manufacturing Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for a process for manufacturing carbureted hydrogen gas.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Watkins, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Putty-Trowel. (open access)

Putty-Trowel.

Patent for a putty trowel for use in installing windows.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Wright, Sam F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Pen. (open access)

Fountain-Pen.

Patent for a new and improved fountain pen that provides a “novel means for manipulating the compressible reservoir” (lines 13-14) of the pen and of which the contents "may readily be fed manually, to the ink-applying portion of the pen" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin Ruthven
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp. (open access)

Guard-Rail Clamp.

Patent for guard rail clamps to securely clasp guard rails with the main rail with features such as spikes and braces.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Akers, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge. (open access)

Suspension-Bridge.

Patent for suspension bridges and a mechanism to overcome the vertical motion in floors of spans of bridges and provides a permanent anchorage for the cables.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Greer, William H. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter (open access)

Seed-Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: Atmar, Joseph Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Vehicle Wheel (open access)

Resilient Vehicle Wheel

Patent for a resilient vehicle-wheel. Illustrations are included.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Mathiesen, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History