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Chain-Tightening Tool
Patent for a tool for tightening automobile wheel chains that is "simple in construction and may be manufactured at a comparatively low cost" (lines 14-16).
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Ruthven, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Saturating Oils
Patent for the process of saturating oils. This is a continuation of the treating and improving petroleum hydrocarbons application serial number 792615 filed 1913-09-30.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Almer McDuffie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for an improved clothes pin to provide a simple, efficient, and practical device.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Newsom, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Spacing Attachment for Baling-Presses
Patent for a hay baling press attachment, which automatically spaces the wires and prevents them from becoming tangled between bales.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Grant, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Purifying Oils
Patent that converts low grade petroleum into higher grade petroleum. The process warms aluminum chlorid with petroleum material in a nonviolent way to make a purifying oil.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
McAfee, Almer M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Purifying Paraffin.
Patent for improvements in the process of purifying paraffin wax.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
McAfee, Almer M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projectile.
Patent for elongated, simple, and efficient projectile that enables it to remain on course including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Fender, Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Touch-System Hand-Rest
Patent for attaching a novel clamp to the rest frame of a typewriter or table. The clamps can be adjusted to fit various pieces of furniture or typewriters. The invention is to improve the way the hand rests on the frame of the typewriter.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Anderson, Walter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Lighting Lamp Burner
Patent for the invention of Self-Lighting Lamp Burners. Steps for creation and use of this item are spelled out with references to the illistration.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
White, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Record for Live-Stock and Other Shipments.
Patent for a record for live stock and other shipments to create a centralized publication of the conditions of live stock shipments.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Lloyd, George Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Digging Attachment.
Patent for an instrument that, during cultivation of peanuts, can be horizontally attached to a digging implement and cut through the peanut plant and discharge both the plant and peanut via the top of the cultivating device. The instrument is attached and angled so that the peanut does not suffer any damage during cultivation.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Rainer, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallurgical Process
Patent for improvements to metallurgical process that involves "seperating metals from their ores" (lines 13-14) under the right conditions and seeks to lower the costs of the process.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Dawson, Oliver B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Condensing a Vapor in a Natural Gas
Patent for Method of Condensing a Vapor in a Natural Gas. The purpose is to remove condensation and other wet gases from oil wells.
Date:
May 27, 1918
Creator:
Duffy, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Machine.
Patent for improvement on a bale forming machine that will operate easily, positively, and automatically. This invention described for forming and automatically securing wires around bales of hay and other like materials. It has a special object that is an improved form of clutch for connecting the wire twisters and needles and disconnecting them from a driving means. The clutch will permit the plunger in the bailing chamber to perform a predetermined number of strokes after the completion of the bale to be tied.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Freeman, Lawrence K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding-Door-Operating Mechanism.
Patent for improvements in the sliding door mechanism to prevent doors from slipping out of their tracks and hold doors yieldingly in their tracks during operation, illustrations included.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Fite, Frank James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Direction Signal
Patent for a "direction indicator" (lines 12-13) adapted for se in vehicles. Created for a simple method to inform other drivers of the intended direction of the car it is installed in.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Hayhurst, Clark R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drier
Patent for inventing an low cost and efficient apparatus for a drier. The primary use is for drying fertilizers and animal hair, but can also be adapted for other commodities.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Luther, Calvin R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History