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Carbon-gripper and margin-indicator for writing-machines (open access)

Carbon-gripper and margin-indicator for writing-machines

A device for improved handling, securing, and carrying paper while type-writing; suitable for a wide variety of type-writer models.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Evans, Charles I., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Moving Picture Machines (open access)

Attachment for Moving Picture Machines

Patent for improvements in attachments for moving picture machines through edges of film being lubricated or smoothed.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Parker, Isaac B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holding Pointograph. (open access)

Copy-Holding Pointograph.

Patent for a mechanism used in typewriters that holds documents to be copied indicates the line to be copied and shifts the document automatically. In addition, the patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Mathews, Louis T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver (open access)

Life-Preserver

Patent for Life-Preserver. Can be used in any emergency situation but mostly in the water.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Carlson, Carl O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Patent for "a certain new and useful improvements in Ironing-Machines"
Date: February 29, 1876
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W. & Cottingham, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Instruments for Filling Teeth (open access)

Improvement in Instruments for Filling Teeth

Patent for improvement in instruments for filling teeth. "The object of this invention is to furnish an improved mode of filling teeth, by the use of which the filling may be built up, hardened, and polished at once, so that the filling will be as hard as marble when the patient leaves the operator's chair, and so that they can be immediately used for masticating."
Date: February 29, 1876
Creator: Ludwig, Carl D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for improvements in vehicle tires consisting of a solid tire made out of rubber, but which also has the same elasticity as a pneumatic tire and includes instructions and illustrations. The main goal of this tire is to act as a shock absorber to prevent serious injury from happening to the driver in a vehicle.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Downing, Otto P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Controller (open access)

Oil Controller

Patent for improvements in oil controllers with interest in controlling fuel and air flow into burners.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Johnson, Albert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Table Attachment for Beds. (open access)

Table Attachment for Beds.

"Patent for beds and is particularly designed as an improvement on the attachment covered." (lines 10).
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Thorniley, Clarence W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-ties.

Patent for "an improvement on the patented bale-tie" (lines 15-16) which includes lugs to "lock" the tie (line 22) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 29, 1876
Creator: Horton, Jesse R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch for Automatic Passenger-Fare-Registering Mechanism. (open access)

Electric Switch for Automatic Passenger-Fare-Registering Mechanism.

Patent for "improvements to electric switches for automatic passenger fare registering mechanisms" (lines 10-12). Illustration and instruction included.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Savage, Harry & Baker, Willard L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for a device with a mechanism that will aid in soil preparation and efficiently distribute fertilizer over a field and prepare for the immediate planting of grain.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Duke, Luther H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Knee Pad (open access)

Pneumatic Knee Pad

Patent for a pneumatic knee pad for laborers.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Purl, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel

Patent for an improvement to the general construction of the wheel in order to make it easier to assemble and disassemble. The improvement also is intended to make the wheel cheaper and easier to manufacture.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Downing, Otto P.
System: The Portal to Texas History