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Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union (open access)

Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union

Patent for an adjustable split cock-nut or union that is of a simple, cheap, and efficient construction with an intended use on valve rods of internal combustion engines. This device is designed to withstand direct pressure, blows, and torque forces.
Date: December 2, 1919
Creator: Dickinson, Harry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Trunk-Rack (open access)

Adjustable Trunk-Rack

Patent for a trunk-rack that is adjustable and sturdy. The trunk-rack design indicates that the rack has wheels and adjustable components to accommodate various sized pieces of luggage.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Wessinger, Lon Woodram
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Sign. (open access)

Advertising-Sign.

Patent for an advertisement sign with a translucent display band that illuminates different sections of letters, numbers, or figures, in various colors, giving the appearance of animation.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Advertising Sign (open access)

Automatic Electric Advertising Sign

Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery Terminal (open access)

Battery Terminal

Patent for an adaptable battery terminal design.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Luthy, J. O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Skimmer. (open access)

Boiler-Skimmer.

Patent for a boiler-skimmer that improves the hinge joint so that water or scum will have free access there and in all positions of the skimmer.
Date: October 14, 1919
Creator: Phillips, Eugene N. & Dick, Harvey H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner (open access)

Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner

Patent for improvements for a boiler skimmer or cleaner with suitable valves to control the blowing off from scum, steam or water.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Phillips, Eugene N. & Dick, Harvey H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Cotton Separator and Cleaner (open access)

Boll-Cotton Separator and Cleaner

Patent for a new boll-cotton separator and cleaner used for separating and cleaning boll, catch the cotton delivered to the separating chamber, remove cotton from catching means, etc.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Simmons, Oliver G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner (open access)

Burner

Patent for improvements in oil super heating burners used in locomotives and other large engines that require the creation of steam to propel them. The invention describes many improvements involving the fuel ejection and atomizing processes.
Date: May 16, 1919
Creator: Henry, Murray
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle Lubricator (open access)

Car Axle Lubricator

Patent for Car Axle Lubricator created with the specific intent of better lubricating the journals and bearings of car axles to prevent overheating with less waste of oil.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Urbieta, Jose M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Turning Device (open access)

Check-Turning Device

Patent for improvements of check-turning devices. The improvements allow checks to be turned quickly especially by adding machine operators.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Albaugh, Ellis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin or Clamp (open access)

Clothes Pin or Clamp

Patent for a more durable metal clothes pin.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Townley, Percy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch. (open access)

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
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
Construction of the Hulls of Concrete Ships. (open access)

Construction of the Hulls of Concrete Ships.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Construction of the Hulls of Concrete Ships" (lines 5-6). The improvements enable concrete hulls to be made efficiently, comparatively lightweight, and durable with a new form of rib reinforcement providing strength to withstand all strains of ocean travel.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
COTTON CLEANER (open access)

COTTON CLEANER

This is a patent for a Cotton Cleaner. This new cotton cleaner is able to use air to rotate the rotors to then separate the dirty cotton from the clean cotton.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Cabrera, Maragarito
System: The Portal to Texas History
Differential Construction (open access)

Differential Construction

Patent for "a new and Improved Differential Construction" (lines 5-6). "The object of the present invention is to provide a differential particularly suitable for motor vehicles... whereby the spinning of the wheels... is effectually prevented while the relative movement thereof necessary in passing around curves is freely allowed" (lines 22-31).
Date: May 21, 1919
Creator: Reagan, Edgar U. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diving-Armor. (open access)

Diving-Armor.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Diving-Armor" (lines 5-6) relating to protection from high pressure, enabling arm and hand movements, an outside air supply, and an oxygen tank. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Long, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Bolt. (open access)

Door-Bolt.

Patent for improvement in door bolts composing a device clamping a bolt to the bottom of the door.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Yarberry, Roland L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Etching Apparatus. (open access)

Etching Apparatus.

Patent for an etching device that is for those interested in producing copper and zinc half-tones. This device can also use wave like motion to retain highlight tones and finish half-tones without requiring re-etching or staging.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Beare, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Apparatus for Baling-Presses (open access)

Feeding Apparatus for Baling-Presses

Patent for improvements to the devices that feed cotton into baling presses. The main intentions of the improvements are to ensure that cotton is fed to the press at regular intervals, and to provide a "feed paddle" which is operational when the press ram is raised.
Date: 1919
Creator: Cameron, Theodore R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter. (open access)

Filter.

Patent for an improvement in filters to remove impurities from gasoline and oil and to reuse the gasoline and oil. Includes illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Northrup, Early
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Heater For Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Fuel Heater For Internal Combustion Engines

Patent for a fuel heating system designed to be incorporated into combustion engines.
Date: April 1, 1919
Creator: Vaughan, E. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture (open access)

Furniture

Patent for easy assembly and disassembly of cabinet furniture.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Giordano, Anthony
System: The Portal to Texas History