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Mechanism for Hanging Car-Doors and The Like (open access)

Mechanism for Hanging Car-Doors and The Like

Patent for a mechanism for hanging car doors and similar objects. The tool reduces the amount of people needed to install a car door or similar object, providing a more efficient installation.
Date: December 24, 1918
Creator: Hartough, Edward W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projectile. (open access)

Projectile.

Patent for projectiles, more particularly to an explosive projectile. "One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a shell of the character stated which may be produced at relatively small cost..."
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Wilkins, Willie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph-Repeater (open access)

Telegraph-Repeater

Patent for a telegraph repeater. This invention improves repeaters by eliminating lag by simplifying the apparatus which increases capacity and clarity in transmission by maintaining a larger current strength.
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Perhalates (open access)

Process of Producing Perhalates

Patent for an improved process of producing perhalates, perchlorates, and their corresponding acids.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Schoch, Eugene Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-wheel for Vehicles. (open access)

Spring-wheel for Vehicles.

Patent for an improved wheel with "spring cushioning devices between the sections for insuring easy running of the vehicle by the spring devices absorbing shocks" (lines 11-14).
Date: February 24, 1914
Creator: Luttrell, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel (open access)

Spring Wheel

Patent for a spring wheel design that will "effectually resist both the vertical and lateral stresses to which the wheel is subjected when in use" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date: February 24, 1914
Creator: Mathiesen, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Sign. (open access)

Electric Sign.

Patent for an electric sign, which lights up each letter individually and turns them all off at the same time after being on a short while.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Miller, Leonard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Trough (open access)

Feed-Trough

Patent for a feed trough for chickens and other small animals.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Davis, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starter (open access)

Engine-Starter

Patent for improvements to engine starters that enable the driver of an automobile to start an engine by applying pressure to foot pedals.
Date: June 24, 1913
Creator: Morgan, August C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop-Lock (open access)

Envelop-Lock

Patent for an Envelop-Lock, which "appertains to a sealing or locking device for envelops and other containers, and aims to provide a novel and improved means for locking or sealing the closure flap of an envelop, whereby the envelop cannot be opened without tearing or mutilating the same, so as to be apparent to the recipient of the envelop." (lines 8-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Buckner, Charles C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Trough (open access)

Feed-Trough

Patent for feed trough. This is an improvement to the feed trough which already exists. This trough is "cylindrical in form" and allows for easier and cleaner access for those tending to the animals.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Fechner, Albert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Head (open access)

Drill-Head

Patent for drill head improvements by inventor Clarence E. Reed.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Reed, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit (open access)

Drill-Bit

Patent for an improved kind of drill bit that is more durable against rock. The bit's cutting rollers have a frusto-conical shape, and are also detachable.
Date: January 24, 1919
Creator: Humason, Granville A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farm-Gate. (open access)

Farm-Gate.

Patent for improvements to pivoted farm gates to open and close the gate at a distance.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Hancock, Ferdinand M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flash-Light (open access)

Flash-Light

Patent for flashlights to provide certain new and useful improvements designed and adapted for use in the handles of umbrellas, canes, and the like. The invention comprises a metallic tube or sleeve adapted to be inserted into a bore of an umbrella handle or sleeve having an enlargement in which a bulb carrier is mounted and over the end of the lens. The configuration will not interfere with the free use of the handle. There is a special construction of the circuit closer to the metallic sleeve and one battery being held within and insulated from the metallic sleeve.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Matthies, Gustav & Rehberg Jr., August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Track Brace (open access)

Railway-Track Brace

Patent for a brace for railway tracks. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Reid, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screening Device. (open access)

Screening Device.

Patent for a screening device that offers "an improved means for imparting motion to and controlling or varying the motion of the screen to affect a separation of the materials undergoing treatment." (lines 10-13).
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Cole, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rain-Water Cut-Off. (open access)

Rain-Water Cut-Off.

Patent for a rain water cut-off that can direct the flow of water to one of two pipes. It allows rain water carrying dust and debris from the gutter to be directed to a waste receptacle that can later be switched to direct clean running rain water to a second pipe to different receptacle to be collected.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Crandall, Grover C. & Smith, Zay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine (open access)

Saw-Filing Machine

Patent for an improved method for filing any saw, including illustrations.
Date: March 24, 1914
Creator: Sevey, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rock Drill (open access)

Rock Drill

Patent for a rock drill. This invention is designed for use with a pitman driven by a crank movement or a direct ratchet connected to a driving rod. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Speer, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road-Scraper (open access)

Road-Scraper

Patent for a road grading machine. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Wallis, John Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Wheel (open access)

Spring-Wheel

Patent for a wheel supported by spring spokes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Hudson, Alexander S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road-Machine. (open access)

Road-Machine.

Patent for "a machine for resurfacing roads or preparing new roads" (lines 9-10). Machine includes an adjustable scraper to aid in leveling of the roadway and compresses the edges of the roads using drags or shoes. The machine is adaptable to aid in road construction "depending upon the nature and condition of the road's surface" (lines 16-17).
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Dean, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Drill (open access)

Roller-Drill

Patent for a roller drill for boring holes into rocks which is stronger than other roller drills and is constructed differently than his previous patent for a roller drill.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History