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Automatic Maximum-Speed Controller (open access)

Automatic Maximum-Speed Controller

Patent for improvements is construction and adaptation of a gear pump.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Awning-Lock (open access)

Awning-Lock

Patent for a novel locking attachment for awning locks. Device locks so that is it inaccessible from the outside, therefore providing security from intruders.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Hatchl, Harold C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for removing dead bolls, insects and other parasites from growing plants.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Harper, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from passing along a certain point of a railroad track from an inclosure (sic)" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Bullard, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Adding and Listing Machine (open access)

Combined Adding and Listing Machine

Patent for a combined adding and listing machine. A machine made for adding, listing, and totaling (and sub-totaling).
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: McCaleb, Walter F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses. (open access)

Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses.

Patent for an attachment for bale-forming presses consisting of needles, wire storage spools, and a "yieldable mechanism" allowing the wire to pass (line 17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Freeman, Lawrence K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjusting and Locking Device for Skid Chains. (open access)

Adjusting and Locking Device for Skid Chains.

Patent for anti-skid chains for use on automobile wheels and tires which may be locked to prevent slipping.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Boyd, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anticreeper for Railway Rails. (open access)

Anticreeper for Railway Rails.

Patent for an anti-creeper with improved strength and serviceability "in the location and construction of the tie abutting portion" (lines 28-29).
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch for Grain-Car Doors. (open access)

Latch for Grain-Car Doors.

Patent for a latch that may used on any grain car door. The latch allows for the door to be locked open or closed.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Grogan, Edward W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twisting Device. (open access)

Twisting Device.

Patent for a twisting machine that can tie and secure cords around bales while reducing the likelihood of slipping inside the tying machine, including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew Tilmon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twister. (open access)

Twister.

Patent for a twister used in "twisting together the ends of the baling wires employed in forming bales of hay" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process for Making Cattle Food (open access)

Process for Making Cattle Food

Patent for providing "a process whereby cattle food may be economically produced from sotol which, when combined with certain other food products, will produce an equivalent to alfalfa and which can be produced at a cost far below that required to provide a feed of the same amount of alfalfa &c., &c." lines 17-23
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Thatcher, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like. (open access)

Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like.

Patent for improvements in the automobile driving mechanism thorough changes in the transmission and transmission gearing.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Allan, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Drill. (open access)

Rotary Boring Drill.

Patent for rotary boring drills with fish-tail bits to improve uniformity, steadiness, and clearance.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Nest. (open access)

Sanitary Nest.

Patent for a sanitary nest that is made of metal unlike others made of wood. The nest allows for the animals to nest in an improved environment which helps prevent invasions from pests, climate, or any other unhealthy infestation.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Brooks, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Raised-Stamp Tool (open access)

Raised-Stamp Tool

Patent for a single tool for stamping leather.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Varga, Lionel John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foot Steering Device for Automobiles. (open access)

Foot Steering Device for Automobiles.

Patent for foot steering device as "an attachment to the ordinary steering devices which are operated by handwheels for controlling the steering mechanism by foot, or other parts of the body to relieve the hand" (lines 13-17). The device also provides "a steering device with pedals so connected thereto and so located that the same may be readily reached with the feet" (lines30-32).
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Haley, Seabron M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ring for Disseminating Perfumes, &c. (open access)

Ring for Disseminating Perfumes, &c.

Patent for "an improved device for disseminating chemicals, perfumes and the like ... in the nature of a ring which may be worn on either finger, toe, arm, or any part of the body and which constitutes a container for the material to be disseminated." (p.1 lines 9-15). The "outlet ... openings [of the ring] ... are normally obstructed to some extent by contact with the member on which it is worn so that the escape of the material contained will be slow and gradual." (p.1 lines 18-23)
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Griffin, William H. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Press. (open access)

Bale Forming Press.

Patent for a bale forming press to form bales of hay and automatically secure "baling wires around the bale as formed" (lines 13-14). It automatically stops the feeder when "the bale is being tied" (lines 19-20) and winds and automatically unwinds and winds the wire.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History