Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Stalk-Cutting Machines.

Patent for improved, cheap, and simple stalk-cutting technology with shielded protection, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: McCray, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Water-Tanks (open access)

Valve for Water-Tanks

Patent for a valve for water tanks. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Braly, Hugh L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter (open access)

Transplanter

Patent for a transplanter to move a rooted cotton plant and the soil around it to a different location. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Matthews, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Regulating Mechanism (open access)

Speed-Regulating Mechanism

Patent for a new Speed-Regulating Mechanism. The improved device will automatically control engine speed.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sapping or Destroying Trenches or Other Defensive Works. (open access)

Method of Sapping or Destroying Trenches or Other Defensive Works.

Patent for a method of sapping or destroying trenches or other defensive works to use in military operations.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Syringe (open access)

Syringe

Patent for a syringe for containing water used for bathing and fountains. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Rhone, George Mobley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Fastener (open access)

Gate-Fastener

Patent for latches for swinging gates. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Pochyla, Adolph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signal Apparatus for Motor-Vehicles (open access)

Signal Apparatus for Motor-Vehicles

Patent for automobile signaling apparatus. The apparatus is designed to signal the operator's direction to other drivers.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: Riggs, Fletcher S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pulverizer. (open access)

Pulverizer.

Patent for pulverizer that reduces solid or liquid fuel while simultaneously mixing the finely divided material with an oxidizing agent and holding the mixture in suspension, producing a highly combustible mechanical mixture for use in furnaces, gas producers, and other similar apparatus that is more desireable to use finely divided fuel.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Machine (open access)

Photographic-Printing Machine

Patent for a new and improved Photographic Printing Machine. The device allows for accurately positioning negative to contact accurately with printing paper.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Loving, Roy R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress (open access)

Cotton-Compress

Patent for a cotton compress. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Mode, Marshall M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.

Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date: September 17, 1917
Creator: Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History