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Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner with beater arms attached to the shaft of the machine.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cement-Block Mold.
Patent for a cement block molding machine, which can produce many blocks in a short amount of time.
Date:
August 2, 1910
Creator:
Jordan, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Separator.
Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.
Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Brown, John Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash-Sieve.
Patent for a new ash sieve for a home oven.
Date:
November 2, 1918
Creator:
Steindorf, Michael C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade Guide.
Patent for window shade roller guides. This invention ensured a smooth and successful unrolling of the window shade, allowing the shade to be guided by a two-part attachment on the sides of the window shade spool. The inventor claimed that the use of this apparatus could preserve the integrity of the roller by minimizing damage during operation.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Orr, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Elevator Signal Systems
Patent for an improvement to an elevator in which “to provide an elevator signal system that will permit a party at any landing to indicate his desire to go up or down to the elevator operator by pressing one of two buttons” (lines 10-15). Instructions and illustration included.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Johnson, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment
Patent for a type writer attachment that counts the number of words in a line and sounds a signal when a preset number of words on a line is reached.
Date:
July 2, 1912
Creator:
Walker, Jack L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers.
Patent for a trouser pattern, "to so construct a pair of trousers that the waist portion thereof may be readily manipulated in order that the trousers may be easily converted from a stock size into a pair of trousers having a high waist band, a low waist band or a waist band at a line between high and low" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Ludwig, John. A. & Moses, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interlocking Tile.
Patent for interlocking tiles that obviate a continuous transverse mortar joint so that all liability of moisture passing through the wall is eliminated and a more substantial wall built.
Date:
October 2, 1917
Creator:
Waddell, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Apparatus for Collecting and Handling Lint
Patent for improvements in apparatus for collecting and handling lint. This apparatus will more thoroughly collect and handle lint so that less lint winds up in the linter room, and can be thoroughly collected.
Date:
January 2, 1919
Creator:
Nolen, Robert Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Guide for Printing-Presses.
Patent for improved paper guides for printing presses (particularly stop cylinder printing presses).
Date:
November 2, 1915
Creator:
Garlick, Mark J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin
Patent for cotton gin
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sealing Device for Cocks.
Patent for a device that seals or locks valves or cocks when in operation and not in operation to prevent connection interference.
Date:
November 2, 1915
Creator:
Caldwell, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding-Machine
Patent for a molding machine for forming casting molds. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 2, 1912
Creator:
MacKay, Hugh, of Dallas, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heavier-than-air- Airship
Patent for aviation prototype.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Brown, George Coleman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Automatic Shift for Saw Sharpening Machines
Patent for Automatic Shift for Saw Sharpening Machines
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Ross, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for an improved oil burner design "for use where high efficiency and greatest economy are desired in burning low grade oil" (lines 14-16), such as coal and crude oil. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 2, 1915
Creator:
Wright, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus.
Patent for a new game apparatus that can be playing indoors or outdoors and made in both large and small sizes "in which the elements, of chance, skill, and endurance constitute important factors in the successful playing of said game." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 2, 1914
Creator:
Schuler, Joseph & Overbeck, Harry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas Meter Attachment.
Patent for a gas meter attachment that will allow the meter to still function properly when somehow placed in a position other than upright. Valves that would not be functional due to changes in gravitational forces resulting from the meter being in a position other than upright are remedied using this attachment by new register and valve design.
Date:
July 2, 1917
Creator:
Morris, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improvements to a new cultivator which eliminate side drafting and improving the means of cultivating and adjusting the shovels with ease.
Date:
April 2, 1918
Creator:
Ashley, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Saw Gummer
Patent for improvements to cotton saw gummers. The patented improvements include a cutter rather than a puncher in the gummer's design, as well as means for adjusting the cutter.
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Nelson, De Witt C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Hopple.
Patent for a cultivator hopple for adjusting the beams of a cultivator.
Date:
April 2, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Fletcher
System:
The Portal to Texas History