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Waterproof Car-Door. (open access)

Waterproof Car-Door.

Patent for a freight car door of "strong, durable, and inexpensive construction which will be water and air tight, and which will be practically indestructible in case of a wreck" (lines 17-20) including illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1918
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill Machine. (open access)

Well-Drill Machine.

Patent for improvements in well-drill machine by improving its operating and feed mechanisms.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Anthony, Russell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Apparatus. (open access)

Well Drilling Apparatus.

Patent for an improved well-drilling apparatus. Improvements made to bull wheel shaft and the sand reel and casing line shaft so they may be operated independently of each other while utilizing the same source of power.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Thorniley, Clarence W. & Thorniley, Charles, D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Mechanism (open access)

Well Drilling Mechanism

Patent for a well drilling mechanism. This invention addresses the time consuming labor of screwing together sections of drilling pipe. This invention "contemplates an apparatus adapted to be attached to the frame of the rotary and operated by the driving mechanism of the rotary...screwing and unscrewing accomplished by mechanical means without manual means" (lines 38-44). Illustration included.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Hall, Samuel N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Tool (open access)

Well Drilling Tool

Patent for improvments into the tools for boring Artesian wells.
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Schubert, Hermann F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for a windmill. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Moon, Richard D. & Horne, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for windmill
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: MacEwen, Benjamin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window and Roof Jack (open access)

Window and Roof Jack

Patent for a window and roof jack. Illustration included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Fry, Toy B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash. (open access)

Window-Sash.

Patent for a windows sash, which does not require the use of putty to hold the window pane in place and allows for easy removal and replacement of the window pane.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Polson, George T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustrations included.
Date: January 24, 1911
Creator: Smith, Otis M. L. & Smith, Estus K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for wire stretcher.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Clark, Joseph G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Work-Holder (open access)

Work-Holder

Patent for a work holder designed to hold structures such as doors, windows, and shutters while in construction. Illustrations included.
Date: January 10, 1911
Creator: De Bord, James Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a tool to enable its user to turn certain objects, such as nuts and bolts, efficiently.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Bonelli, Liborio C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for an improved wrench which utilizes two circular heads, individually situated at the ends of a single handle.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Johnson, Alva Putman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Wright, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for wrench improvement. Allows for "instantaneous initial or preliminary adjustment to fit any size object within its capacity, and a final adjustment to engage the object firmly and securely and to provide a simple, practical, and efficient wrench of strong and durable construction, and equipped with ratchet mechanism for affording a quick adjustment of a sliding jaw and a threaded connection . . . " (13-21)
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Cunningham, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Humphries, Joseph T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a nut wrench with a sliding jaw.
Date: January 24, 1911
Creator: Mansfield, Charles L. & Matthews, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History