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Cotton-Seed Linter (open access)

Cotton-Seed Linter

Patent for a new Cotton-Seed Linter (relates to a new and useful form of cotton seed linter) which operates efficiently in and about oil mills or other places where cotton seed is reduced to commercial products.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Voorhies, Felix E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Needle for Hand-Embroidery and Similar Work. (open access)

Needle for Hand-Embroidery and Similar Work.

Patent for simple and inexpensive hand needles, particularly those used for embroidering or ornamental needlework, to increase the rapidity and ease with which such work can be accomplished.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Neitzel, Conrad T. & Pade, George V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto-Carrier (open access)

Auto-Carrier

Patent for an auto-carrier that applied to the running board for carrying various luggage. A second aspect is to provide a device to support a wide array of objects and to withstand the weight giving its location along the running board.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Evans, Edward L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condensing Apparatus (open access)

Condensing Apparatus

Patent for a condensing apparatus designed to be attached to linting machines.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: Martin, G. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drilling and Riveting Machine (open access)

Drilling and Riveting Machine

Patent for an improved drilling and riveting machine designed designed to drill through and rivet multiple layers of materials at once.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: Schoellkopf, J. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

Rotary Engine.

Patent for a simplified rotary engine which uses steam, compressed air and other elastic fluids which act as motive fluid. This patent is special in that it is light and compact. This patent helps the engine start easily, reverse, and stop, as well as other types of motion.
Date: January 8, 1919
Creator: Campbell, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antispreading Device for Railway-Tracks. (open access)

Antispreading Device for Railway-Tracks.

Patent for improvement for preventing the railroad tracks from spreading by using a device to connect the ends of two parallel rail to connecting adjacent pair of rails.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: Stovall, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method and Means of Separating Water From Heavy Oil Emulsions (open access)

Method and Means of Separating Water From Heavy Oil Emulsions

Patent for a system of separating water from heavy oil emulsions, which will increase oil profits by 20-30%.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: McKibben, C. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ore-Separating Apparatus. (open access)

Ore-Separating Apparatus.

Patent for an apparatus that separates pulverized ore into its constituents while in a dry condition. Eliminating the previous need to use water when separating constituents.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: McElwain, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Cushion Tires (open access)

Process of Making Cushion Tires

Patent for improving "cushion tires and processes of producing the same". (lines 10-11).
Date: September 8, 1919
Creator: Strang, Fred W. of Dallas, TX
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine (open access)

Type-Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machine with particular focus on the "ribbon mechanism for typewriting machines and a main object is to provide devices for automatically controlling the ribbon reverser" (lines 8-11).
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Fort, Tandy I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incinerator (open access)

Incinerator

Patent for improvement in incinerators by unique arrangement of receiving passage and receiving post closing the lower end with a second passage inclining.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: McCutcheon, Joe Alford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manually-Operated Coal-Mining Machine. (open access)

Manually-Operated Coal-Mining Machine.

Patent for manually mining coal and allows miners to cut coal close to the ground from an upright position, including illustrations.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Jackson, Ed
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Repairing Aluminum Castings. (open access)

Method of Repairing Aluminum Castings.

Patent for a new method of repairing fractured aluminum casts that involves welding the metal against a composite pate, includes illustrations.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Irwin, Samuel D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lacing-Eyelet. (open access)

Lacing-Eyelet.

Patent for the improved construction and efficiency of a Lacing-Eyelet. The device is used for supporting lacing in fashion wear, including shoes and corsets. Improvements include providing quicker implementation of the device without risk of damaging the garment it is used on. Additional improvements include the device having uniform and interchangeable parts which can be manufactured in quantities so as to be easily replaced if necessary. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: Langford, Joseph O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Making Halids (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Making Halids

Patent for a new and improved process of and apparatus for making halides which transmit the necessary heat to the reaction mass by preheating the chlorine and not through the wall as in usual types of retorts.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Abbott Lyle Stockton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Separating Associated Liquids. (open access)

Method of Separating Associated Liquids.

Patent for an invention that "relates to the art of separating associated liquids" (lines 9-10).
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Attachment (open access)

Lamp Attachment

Patent for a new and improved Lamp Attachment which instantaneously extinguish lamp mechanically, without necessitating the employment a person's breath or the elevation of the lamps chimney.
Date: July 8, 1919
Creator: Rodriguez, Gavino
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing And Chopping Apparatus. (open access)

Hoeing And Chopping Apparatus.

Patent for an improvement to hoeing and chopping apparatus by a supporting frame that operates transversely and vertically at the same time.
Date: April 8, 1919
Creator: Blankenstein, Richard J.
System: The Portal to Texas History