Coin-Holder and Indicator for Receptacles. (open access)

Coin-Holder and Indicator for Receptacles.

Patent for a device to be placed on empty milk bottles or other receptacles that are left unattended for a delivery person to exchange for full ones, including illustrations. The device indicates to the delivery person the quantity of product desired and is equipped with a pouch or pocket into which the payment for the product can be placed. In this manner, the purchaser can communicate his or her desired purchase amount to the delivery person and provide payment for same, without the requirement of being present at the time of delivery.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Roberts, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rule and Square. (open access)

Combined Rule and Square.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Combined Rules and Squares which makes it "possible to form a rigid straight rule or one or more rigid squares" (lines 24-25), including illustration and instructions.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Grossman, Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner (open access)

Cotton Cleaner

Patent for cotton cleaners which serve as accessories in cotton ginning operations and in the present instance are used with a pneumatic cotton distributing elevator or conveying means cooperating with gin feeders.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Murray, S.D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters (open access)

Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters

Patent for an attachment to existing hopper fed planters intended for larger format seeds (corn, cotton, etc.), to allow their use in distribution of smaller format seeds (cabbage, onions, etc.).
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Whitworth, John Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Automatic Railway-Switches, "particularly to automatic railway switches for use in street railways or steam railways" (lines 13-15), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Eisenberg, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watering-Trough. (open access)

Watering-Trough.

Patent for a valve that controls the flow of drinking water from a reservoir or tank into a trough. It can be operated by domestic animals and automatically shuts off when they are finished drinking.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Oil-Burners (open access)

Improvements in Oil-Burners

Patent for improvements to oil-burners. The text contains a description of the unique improvements and is accompanied by explanatory illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Harrington, Edward A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Baling-Presses (open access)

Improvements in Baling-Presses

Patent for Improvements on Baling Presses. The patent contains an explanation of how the improvements function and their purpose, and is accompanied by illustrations of the machinery.
Date: December 11, 1916
Creator: Ezell, Umberto D
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traffic-Signal. (open access)

Traffic-Signal.

Patent for a traffic signal apparatus for installation in automobiles, including illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Valdes, Salvador M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for hydrocarbon-burners to provide a novel and improved burner for coal-oil, petroleum, or other liquid fuel.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Hewett, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Operating Mechanism (open access)

Gate-Operating Mechanism

Patent for an improved gate operating mechanism to allow vehicles to approach the gate and the gate move to the open position and to move to the closed position has passed through the gate opening. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: McDaniel, James M. & McDaniel, Claud M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Figure Toy. (open access)

Figure Toy.

Patent for improvements in figure toys which "includes a base or support having figures mounted thereon the said figures being preferably in the form of men and having jointed legs connected with their bodies there being means provided for swinging the legs to cause the figures to have the appearance of running" (lines 13-19); includes illustration.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Salter, Conway
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calf and Cow Weaner. (open access)

Calf and Cow Weaner.

Patent for calf and cow weaner.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Bauer, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for improving attachment for a cultivator whereby an ordinary cultivator and wherein the cutting blade is effectively held against displacement after the attachment has been applied to a beam.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Griffice, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for cotton-chopper improvements providing a longer elliptical orbit for the hoe in order to chop closer to the ground.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Noblett, Adontram J.
System: The Portal to Texas History