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Cranking Device (open access)

Cranking Device

Patent for cranking device to start internal combustion engines and designed specifically for automobiles.
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevating Truck. (open access)

Elevating Truck.

Patent for elevating truck equipped with a conveyor belt powered by an electric motor. The device is "easily moved about and placed in position by one or two men" (lines 29–30), but powerful enough to lift bales of cotton (or other objects) weighing up to 600 pounds, includes illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Anderson, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Street-Cleaning Machine (open access)

Street-Cleaning Machine

Patent for a street-cleaning machine that brushes the dirt into small piles and sucks the dirt piles into bags or receptacles for easy disposal.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Atkinson, Wiley F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed-separating machine (open access)

Cotton-seed-separating machine

Patent for a cotton-seed-separating machine for separating cotton seeds from the bolls.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Jones, Joel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing. (open access)

Railroad-Crossing.

Patent for improvements in Railroad-crossings. Noiseless and a more durable crossing, allowing for a more maintainable foundation and less repairing compared to other crossings that vibrate and cause severe shock and damage to the foundation.
Date: March 18, 1919
Creator: O'Connor, Thomas J. & Culbertson, Warren W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Necktie-Tying Form. (open access)

Necktie-Tying Form.

Patent for improvements in necktie tying forms. The device is place on the necktie as a form to be tied around and to provide a flat smooth support for the folds of the knot. The purposes of this invention is to avoid the wrinkling and loosening lining that can occur when a necktie is repeatably tied. Additionally its purpose is to improve the lifespan of the necktie.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Wofford, Bushrod W. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevating-Truck. (open access)

Elevating-Truck.

Patent for new improvements for a portable elevating truck, used for handling and storing heavy material to stack on each other. (referred to as "decking") using an endless chain on an incline.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Anderson, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Brooder (open access)

Chicken-Brooder

Patent for an improved Chicken-Brooder that provide an improved brooder especially for outdoor use or independently of poultry house.
Date: April 29, 1919
Creator: Murray, Richard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of making tire-fillers (open access)

Process of making tire-fillers

Patent for the process of making tire fillers that relates to the fillers for tire casings and the process of producing the same.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Aycock, Edward F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Extension Covered Wagon-Bed (open access)

Knockdown Extension Covered Wagon-Bed

Patent for a knock-down wagon bed, particularly to be extensible for cotton hauling.
Date: July 15, 1919
Creator: Joly, Charles J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Compress (open access)

Gin Compress

Patent for improvements upon the cotton gin-compress which includes driven screws with gearing to make the compress "more effective than that heretofore employed"(lines 10-11) machinery.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Dunlap, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History