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Attachment for Lister-Cultivators (open access)

Attachment for Lister-Cultivators

Patent for improvements in attachments to lister-cultivators. Illustration is included.
Date: October 12, 1920
Creator: Degge, Marvin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery-Terminal-Fastening Device (open access)

Battery-Terminal-Fastening Device

Patent for improvements to battery terminal fastening devices. Illustration is included.
Date: October 12, 1920
Creator: Hawkins, Alda F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Book (open access)

Check-Book

Patent for a foldable check book. Illustration is included.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane-Kite. (open access)

Aeroplane-Kite.

Patent for a new aeroplane-kite which can be "readily dismantled and folded for shipping and easily assembled and placed in position for flying without the use of numerous fastenings and detachable parts, thereby making for simplicity and practicability" (lines 12-17). Also includes wind tunnels and a fuselage frame which is so easily assembled that a child can do it.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McLaughlin, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump. (open access)

Air-Pump.

Patent for a new and improved air pump capable of releasing air from the cylindrical casing in one motion. The updated design will also eliminate any lubricating oil from leaking into a tire.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Lawley, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Apparatus. (open access)

Irrigating Apparatus.

Patent for new and useful improvements in irrigation apparatuses. The design includes "a system of surface irrigation comprising a main supply tank, a series of reservoirs, pipes connecting said tank and reservoirs" (lines 95-98). It is intended to allow for irrigating large and small plats of land simply and efficiently.
Date: October 12, 1920
Creator: French, Horatio Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern-Top (open access)

Lantern-Top

Patent for a lantern top that provides sufficient ventilation for the lamp or lantern. The arrangement of the lantern top provides sufficient communication between the interior of the lantern and the surrounding atmosphere to insure steady burning.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Moore, Thomas Lindsay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Coating Composition (open access)

Liquid Coating Composition

Patent for improved non-flammable paint and multi-purpose byproduct of paint production process.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McKay, Arthur N. & Willis, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Dispensing Machinemm (open access)

Liquid Dispensing Machinemm

Patent for a machine can dispense potable liquids to several customers at the same time.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Ogden, Clayton N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Apparatus (open access)

Well-Boring Apparatus

Patent for "new and useful improvements in well boring apparatus. The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character described embodying a rotary table and a novel means for connecting the same to the string of pipe, which extends down into the well and which is rotated by said table and in turn rotates the boring tool carried by the lower end of said spring of pipe" (lines 9-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocking Machine (open access)

Cotton Blocking Machine

Patent for an inexpensive attachment to a cotton cultivator/checking machine to improve the intake capacity of the cultivator itself. The blocking machine would be used to replace the manual labor task of chopping cotton before insertion into the cultivator for processing.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Ford, Barnie S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for new and useful improved invention of wrenches include both pipe wrenches and general-purpose wrenches particularly.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for improving wrenches to reach "parts of machinery [that are] ordinarily difficult [to] access" (lines 12-13), specifically "used in removing or replacing the nut or nuts on a fourth connecting rod of a Ford motor [ . . . ] such rod being in a position difficult to reach by an ordinary wrench" (lines 17-21).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Slagle, George R.; Garner, Arthur N. & Rushin, Willliam R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap. (open access)

Trap.

Patent for animal trap that has a mechanism in connection with spring traps, which is controlled by the closing of the trap, with U-shaped jaws that are spaced slightly apart in order to avoid severing or crushing the animals leg when the jaws of the trap closes. It is meant to prevent the animal from escaping by leaving its leg in the trap.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Manning, James, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Train Signaling And Stopping Device. (open access)

Train Signaling And Stopping Device.

Patent for Train Signaling And Stopping Device improvements intended to be of low cost, simple, durable, and run on electricity.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McGregor, Charles Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tractor. (open access)

Tractor.

Patent for new and improved tractors on farms that are capable of pulling plows, cultivators, seed planters and other similar types of devices.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Lindner, Hans
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Removing Surface Finish (open access)

Process of Removing Surface Finish

Patent for the process of removing paint, enamel, varnish, and lacquer from the surfaces of coated materials.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Cleveland, David P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Expressing Cage and Press. (open access)

Oil-Expressing Cage and Press.

Patent for improvements to Oil Expressing Cages and Presses "for the extraction of oil from cotton seed cake or the like" (lines 11-12) that allows for multiple oil cakes and press plates which can be "readily inserted in or removed from the press as occasion requires" (lines 22-23).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine (open access)

Surface-Treating Machine

Patent for a machine that treats surfaces. Illustration is included.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Clarke, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine. (open access)

Surface-Treating Machine.

Patent for a surface treating machine that improves support, where the surface treating member is "driven by intermediate means from a motor displaced from the member, together with means of effecting adjustments of the surface treating member with relation to the work" (lines 13-15), with illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Clarke, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swivel for Rotary Drills (open access)

Swivel for Rotary Drills

Patent for a swivel for rotary drills used for wells of oil, water, and gas. This swivel ensures no substances, such as sand, get into the parts of the drill that move.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Humason, Granville A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Device. (open access)

Surface-Treating Device.

Patent for a surface cleaning device that provides a continuously moving surface treating member which is bodily adjustable in a suitable support.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Clark, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove. (open access)

Stove.

Patent for "a novel means for supplying liquid fuel to stoves and other burners and for igniting the fuel from a distant point."
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Peters, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thickener and Means for Removing Settled Solids Therefrom. (open access)

Thickener and Means for Removing Settled Solids Therefrom.

Patent for a machine which can automatically and continuously remove thickened material, which is a byproduct of wet milling ores. "The present device has been particularly designed to permit feed and discharge to be on the same level or for that matter the constant density discharge may be above or below the level of the feed stream, as may best fit the conditions of the particular installation" (lines 39-45).
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History