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Amusement Apparatus. (open access)

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
Apparatus for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils. (open access)

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 (open access)

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
Automobile-Lock. (open access)

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
Cross-Roller Bit. (open access)

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
Disk Plow. (open access)

Disk Plow.

Patent for a disk plow modification, which allows the disk to be self-sharpening and automatically release accumulated garbage.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Hoffman, George L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cutter. (open access)

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
Explosive Projectile. (open access)

Explosive Projectile.

Patent for an improved, non-ricocheting explosive projectile.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Rohling, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Operated Baling-Press. (open access)

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
Line Type Casting Machine. (open access)

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
Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils (open access)

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
Rotary Engine. (open access)

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
Shock Absorber (open access)

Shock Absorber

Patent for an improved shock absorber design to be used in motorized vehicles in order to prevent damage caused by sudden stops and jolts to the vehicle.
Date: October 4, 1919
Creator: Davis, Francis M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antislipping Device for Tires (open access)

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
Card Holder (open access)

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 (open access)

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
Combined Railroad Level and Gage. (open access)

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
Fruit-Jar and Bottle Cleaner. (open access)

Fruit-Jar and Bottle Cleaner.

Patent for a cleaning device that navigates narrow openings of containers, such as bottles and jars, and opens to clean the interior walls of the receptacle.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Hunter, Walter L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad. (open access)

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
Means for Reducing Wear in the Working Barrels of Pumps (open access)

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
Overflow Control for Separating Tanks. (open access)

Overflow Control for Separating Tanks.

Patent for improved overflow control for separating tanks, accounting for, "slime thickness, settling tanks, separating tanks, and the like," ensuring, "uniform overflow." (lines 8-10; 27), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Drill (open access)

Rotary Boring Drill

Patent for a rotary boring drill to be used in mining and drilling.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Carmichael, R. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sack-Protector. (open access)

Sack-Protector.

Patent for an improvement to sacks, as used in picking berries, to protect the bag from deterioration caused by dragging of the sack on the ground.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Roer, William A.
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