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Folding Bunk Stairs
Patent for stair-step that can be folded up, to be used in bunk bed situations such as in sleeping cars of trains.
Date:
December 26, 1916
Creator:
Mey, Ella E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Foot
Patent for a plow or cultivator foot.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Williams, Budicille B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paint Composition
Patent for
Date:
December 9, 1916
Creator:
Brooks, Benjamin T. & Padgett, Fred W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Guide or Gage for Printing-Presses
Patent is for improving feed guides and gages for industrial printers. It provides a simpler guide or gage to adjust as the printer is printing.
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Phillips, Lannes William & Haines, Luther B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Stretcher
Patent for garment-stretchers that improve the stretching and pressing of garments to keep them in better shape. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Carlson, Magnus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reversing Mechanism For Engines.
Patent for improvements in "reversing mechanism for engines, where the operating lever may be supported in such a manner as to substantially eliminate lost motion, and where the reverse lever may be operated with greater convenience and facility." (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Wagner, Warren
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Well Drill
Patent for an Oil-Well Drill with the "...object of the invention being to provide means to prevent the drill from becoming unscrewed from the drill rod and dropping into the bottom of the well" (lines 12-16).
Date:
December 29, 1916
Creator:
Parker, Roy B. & Spurlock, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telpherage Apparatus
Patent for Telpherage Apparatus
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Drinkard, Ithamar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Drill
Patent for a rotary boring drill that shears off material in a circular manner while drilling holes.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle Attachment
Patent for attachment that prevents a person from accidentally consuming poison.
Date:
December 26, 1916
Creator:
Drouilhet, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Foot Cultivator Attachement
Patent for device that spreads the links that lead from a spring foot cultivators to the tilling shoes.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Grayson, Wilbur D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner
Patent for Cotton Cleaner
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Dickerson, Eustice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar
Patent for a horse collar.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Action Well Pump
Patent for a double action well pump that only uses a single cylinder
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Jacob, Ernst A. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cotton Cleaner
Patent for a cleaner for seed cotton, in preparation for supplying the cotton to gins.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Cass, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Semi-Automatic Steering Gear Operating Mechanism
Patent for Semi-automatic Steering Gear Operating Mechanism
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Austin, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch Throwing Apparatus
Patent for a device that will automatically throw a switch upon the presence of an on-coming train, and switch it back after the train has passed.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Bida, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester
Patent for Cotton Harvester
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Lovejoy, Daniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Plow
Patent for a wing plow.
Date:
December 26, 1916
Creator:
Moore, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for Trap
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Smith, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vise and Saw Clamp
Patent for a vise and a saw clamp
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
King, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Washing Machine and Canner
Patent for a machine that can be converted from a washing machine to a canner, and vice versa, very easily.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Williams, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for improved construction of wire stretcher.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Johnson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gas Valves
Patent for automatic gas valve that will close if the pressure is detected to be too low.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Chism, Sylvester J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History