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Carbureter
Patent for Carbureter and it uses.
Date:
April 1, 1912
Creator:
Carpenter, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Process of Purifying Flour During The Manufacture Thereof
Patent for a mechanism related to the purifying of flour during manufacturing.
Date:
September 21, 1915
Creator:
Smith, George Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paint
Patent for application to introduce an invention of useful paint. The purpose of the paint was to treat woods and prevent them from their enemies, such as worms. This paint can preserve the woods from fire which can render the name fireproof. The further development on this can safe woods from being cracked, peeled or run.
Date:
July 6, 1912
Creator:
Mott, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Explosive Engine
Patent for a type of internal combustion engine using gunpowder as its fuel.
Date:
August 16, 1912
Creator:
Conner, Louis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Hat Pin
Patent for a safety hat pin for protection against workplace injuries, including illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1912
Creator:
Donaldson, James Macon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden Implement
This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
Date:
November 9, 1912
Creator:
Ward, John Swayze
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Monkey Wrench
Patent for a type of monkey wrench in which the movable jaw of the wrench is mounted upon the fixed jaw so that it is easily shifted upon the disengagement of a detent for the fixed jaw. This allows the wrench to be held in any desired adjusted position with relation to the fixed jaw.
Date:
October 18, 1912
Creator:
Joseph Mensik
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Letter of proposal from Warner E. Smith to the United Patent Office to put forth his invention on cultivator to improve the existing one. His invention on cultivator is for cleaning beds where the plants planted down deep in the ground. It is ideal for reeding the surface of the ground from weeds. With his proposal, Smith provided the diagram or drawing to give detail on how it is done.
Date:
October 19, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Warner E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guano Distributor
Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date:
July 19, 1912
Creator:
H. D. Pate
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Trace Clip
Patent for Adjustable Trace Clip. "The invention relates to an adjustable trace clip, and has for its primary object to provide a clip of this character in which the connecting strap between the back and belly bands may be adjusted with relation to the trace so as to permit the back band to properly fit the animal and also allow the longitudinal adjustment of the trace" (lines 9-16).
Date:
May 24, 1912
Creator:
Bradfute, Benjamine F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device
Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).
Date:
April 6, 1912
Creator:
Friedman, Bernard Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Delinter
Patent is for a Delinter. It provides a means for mechanical separation of cotton seeds from fiber as a new way of cotton ginning.
Date:
April 24, 1912
Creator:
Mullen, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Splicer.
Patent for a wire splicer, or a device that connects distinct wires by looping them together. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 30, 1912
Creator:
Martin, Enoch
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Lamp Attachment.
Patent for an electric-lamp attachment, "the primary object of this invention being the provision of a lamp socket attachment of supporting means in combination with a switch, whereby the current energizing the filament of an incandescent lamp is so controlled as to produce different degrees of incandescence in the filament and thus produce different degrees of radiance to produce a dim or a highlight as may be desired" (lines 9-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
McNeel, William Pinkney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Jack.
Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.
Date:
August 29, 1912
Creator:
Bouldin, W. Claughton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projectile
Patent for Projectile. "The present invention relates to projectiles and has particular reference to a shell which is adapted to be fired from a gun to penetrate the object aimed at and subsequently explode therein. An important object of the invention is to provide a projectile of the above mentioned character, so constructed so that the same will have a high armor penetrating efficiency and a very large explosive material carrying capacity, whereby the explosion of the shell subsequently to its penetration into or through the armor will be very disastrous" (lines 9-22).
Date:
August 16, 1912
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lace-Rack.
Patent for an improved design for a lace-rack, or a container to stow away lace boards. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 3, 1912
Creator:
Jones, Laurence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump
Patent for a pump. This invention is designed to improvement pumps, by addition of a dish-like deflector within the water box that forces water down into the well preventing leakage around the pump head.
Date:
November 11, 1912
Creator:
Dubuque, Arthur A. & Voight, Phillip H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch Operating Means.
Patent for switching the line on a railway track including an example and illustration.
Date:
October 21, 1912
Creator:
Phillips, Carroll
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Separator-Guard.
Patent for a separator-guard for spinning frames. It prevents "the yarn from being entangled in or caught by the devices for attaching the separators to their support" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1912
Creator:
Pitts, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent is for a rotary engine. The design of this rotary engine includes an inlet and exhaust that also prevents internal leakage of working fluid under pressure.
Date:
May 8, 1912
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening Device
Patent for Fastening Device which relates to "improvements in fastening devices and more particularly to latches and cooperating strikes such as used in fastening gates, etc. One object of my invention is to provide a strike for such latching means which is easily and quickly put in place, which is easily adjustable to different heights of the latching member, which is easily and quickly adjustable to different horizontal positions of the latching member, and which is so constructed that it is firmly but simply held in place in any of its positions" (lines 8-20).
Date:
May 31, 1912
Creator:
Torian, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Rod Coupling
The Patent for a Pump-Rod Coupling. Its creation allows for ease and speed in coupling or uncoupling to the wind mill rod.
Date:
May 21, 1912
Creator:
Massey, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History