Air Heating and Regulating Means for Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Air Heating and Regulating Means for Internal Combustion Engines

Patent for a type of air heater designed to be attached to an internal combustion engine for the purposes of regulating heat.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Brooks, Howard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Road-Light. (open access)

Automobile Road-Light.

Patent for an automobile road-light improvement that causes the lights of a moving vehicle to move in conformity of the vehicle itself. The device is readily attachable to automobiles of standard type.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Tausch, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner-Cap. (open access)

Burner-Cap.

Patent for an improved liquid fuel burner, one which can destroy the spines of cacti. The burner can also direct fuel in different angles and when ignited will move the flame onto the retort chamber.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Brown, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Hoist (open access)

Bit-Hoist

Patent for easy removal of bits from drilling machines.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Parrish, Benjamin Eugene & Stage, Solomon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box-Cabinet (open access)

Box-Cabinet

Patent for cabinets which are "adapted to hold boxes of the kind used by druggists, as containers for medicines and small objects" (lines 9-11).
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Hines, Bascom L. & Johnson, Mannon G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Pump Jack (open access)

Balancing Pump Jack

Patent for increasing the power of pump jacks and providing simple devices for aiding the driving mechanism. A shifting weight helps balance the sucker rod.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Dayton, W.L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Turning Device (open access)

Check-Turning Device

Patent for improvements of check-turning devices. The improvements allow checks to be turned quickly especially by adding machine operators.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Albaugh, Ellis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linotype and Intertype (open access)

Linotype and Intertype

Patent for automatic stopping of matrices.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Sundstrom, Herman T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Grinding Device (open access)

Valve-Grinding Device

Patent for a device that can simultaneously grind "several valves of a multi-cylinder engine or motor" (lines 11-12). This device allows the "ready interchangeability, repair and adjustment of the working parts" (lines 16-17).
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Lohec, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for "locking the control pedals of a motor vehicle from movement in either direction, the said lock being arranged between the pedals and arranged to simultaneously engage and lock both" (lines 9-14).
Date: February 27, 1919
Creator: Cameron, Robert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Lubricator. (open access)

Journal-Lubricator.

Patent for a railway journal lubricator with a reservoir and lubricating rollers for supplying lubricant to the railway journal.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Urbieta, Jose M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Signals (open access)

Improvement in Signals

Patent for a signal for an exhaust pipe of an automobile. Essentially, this device would quiet exhaust noise leaving an automobile.
Date: February 26, 1919
Creator: Baker, James Slayton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spur. (open access)

Spur.

Patent for an improvement in spurs, this one containing a forked end with a rowel on each end of the fork. This is to ensure the rowels have a broad surface adjacent to each rowel and to prevent less injury to an animal when in use.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Cook, Landon H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator. (open access)

Station-Indicator.

Patent for an automatic station indicator for railway coaches.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Large, WIlliam A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing Appliance (open access)

Printing Appliance

Patent for a printing appliance meant to the improve the functionality of a printer.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Johnson, S. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy. (open access)

Toy.

Patent for a toy consisting of two movable figures stationed on a circular base. One figure is hinged using a cord that passes through the base and can be pulled or retracted to allow the figure to collapse and spring upright. The second figure has a spring operated arm to strike and knock down the first figure.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Fermier, Victor E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a new and improved design for pumps as they are used in deep wells. New design meant to prevent sand from entering machine between the working barrel and plunger.
Date: February 1, 1919
Creator: Carmichael, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Still. (open access)

Still.

Patent for a still designed to refine crude petroleum and extract lighter elements, including illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Gallsworthy, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Vehicle Body. (open access)

Motor-Vehicle Body.

Patent for a convertible truck body to be used for agricultural purposes.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Ritcheson, Alvin A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Harvester. (open access)

Grain-Harvester.

Patent for an improved grain harvester design.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Wells, Homer C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sample Taking Device (open access)

Sample Taking Device

Patent for an oil sample-taking device.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Dodds, Redus D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separating and Grading Machine (open access)

Separating and Grading Machine

Patent for a separating and grading machine that separates foreign matter from produce such as peanuts, and also the produce are cleaned and at the same time graded for the market.
Date: February 19, 1919
Creator: Sparks, James N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying Machine (open access)

Flying Machine

Patent for a new type of flying machine.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Critchett, J. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter. (open access)

Filter.

Patent for an improvement in filters to remove impurities from gasoline and oil and to reuse the gasoline and oil. Includes illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Northrup, Early
System: The Portal to Texas History