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Cross-Roller Bit.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in cross-roller bits. Invention relates to "improvements in rotary boring drills for use in drilling wells for water, oil or gas and has particular reference to drills of the so called cross roller type for use in hard formation."
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Apparatus.
Patent for improvements to the Amusement Apparatus that can be more easily constructed and supports swimmers by the use of horizontal and vertical bars on each side of the device with the horizontal bars rotate independently. Includes illustration.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Williams, May Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antislipping Device for Tires
Patent for a device intended to decrease slippage of vehicle tires on roads that are either damaged or otherwise hard to navigate due to weather conditions.
Date:
September 4, 1919
Creator:
Edwards, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Collar-Button and Necktie-Holder
Patent for "an improved collar button and necktie holder made of sheet metal, celluloid, bone, rubber, or any other suitable sheet or strip material desired" (lines 8-12).
Date:
February 4, 1919
Creator:
Kelly, Orson N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railroad Level and Gage.
Patent for a device that combines a railroad level and a railroad gauge. This invention provides a compact tool that determines the condition of tracks as to level and gauge.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Fuller, Benjamin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card Holder
Patent for card holders meant to help better display business cards and other forms of advertisement on surfaces such as windows.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Hill, L. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Kitchen-Cabinet and Refrigerator
Patent for the combination design of kitchen cabinets that include a refrigerator component.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Polk, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lock.
Patent for an inexpensive automobile lock that is adapted to fit the front bumper of an automobile and designed to lock the two front wheels in place.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Tiedemann, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Apparatus for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils.
Patent for an apparatus for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils. This invention is to use high heat to change the original oils and fluids into oils and fluids of better quality and value.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Adams, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lifting Grapple
Patent for a device to hook to an automobile and lift either the front or the rear of the chassis off of the vehicle. To be used for ease of repair and maintenance to automobile motor.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Wood, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch.
Patent for "the principal object of this invention to provide a compact and efficient friction clutch for transmitting power from a single driving member to a plurality of individual driven mechanisms" (lines 11-15), including illustrations.
Date:
February 4, 1919
Creator:
Taft, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a knee pad to be used by berry or cotton pickers, or other workers that are often in a kneeling position. The knee pad consists of a frame made of "one piece of spring wire of rather coarse gage, a roller revolubly attached to the front end of the frame, and cloth or canvas stretched across the frame" (lines 23-27). The cloth is easy to remove and replace.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Holsey, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Line Type Casting Machine.
Patent for a linotype machine with improvements to the float, the ejector, and slugs magazine.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Wilmans, Lloyd I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils
Patent for a process for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils that converts these fluids into more buoyant products with lower specific gravities and boiling points. This process seeks to meet demand for engine fuels, gasoline, and oils, and augment the diminishing supply of these natural products.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Adams, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Reducing Wear in the Working Barrels of Pumps
Patent for a means of reducing wear in the working barrels of pumps. The pumps made in this wat are specially adapted for operations in water or oil wells where the fluid being pumped is is mixed with sand and sediment.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Hand-Operated Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in Hand-Operated Baling-Presses that has a durable structure and is convenient and easy to use for baling hay and straw. Consists of "a box or body provided with a hopper of usual pattern" and "clamping rods located at the delivery end thereof" (lines 19-20) with a sliding plunger, lever, pivots, and a spring. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Harris, Albert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cutter.
Patent for new and improved drill cutter for rotary boring drills including exact description and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Godbold, Louis A. & Fletcher, Harold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for a rotary engine. The engine is devised for driving a motor vehicle. Illustration included.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Winn, Frank B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History