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Accident Brake Appliance (open access)

Accident Brake Appliance

Patent for an accident brake appliance for trains.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Troutt, Martin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Account-Index. (open access)

Account-Index.

Patent for an account index card holder with “superposed parallel arms” (lines 111-112) that allow portions of the front and reverse side of each card to be visible. The holder and its supports may be used with a system for organizing, tracking, and indexing accounts.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Roach, William Eli
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator designed to prevent from being overcharged with carbide. Illustrations included.
Date: November 19, 1912
Creator: Finley, Jesse T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Actuating Device for Circuit Closers (open access)

Actuating Device for Circuit Closers

Patent for an actuating device for circuit closers. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Young, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Crib or Bed. (open access)

Adjustable Crib or Bed.

Patent for improvements in Adjustable Cribs or Beds for children to sit beside the bed of the mother or guardian of the child. Made to be "easily and quickly attachable to or connected with any make of" (lines 17-19) the adult's bed "so that the mattresses of the bed and crib will be perfectly even or flush, without space...between them" (lines 20-22). Includes illustrations.
Date: November 25, 1919
Creator: Rece, Frank S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Electric-Light Holder. (open access)

Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.

Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Balke, Morris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Pilot. (open access)

Adjustable Pilot.

Patent for Improvements in Adjustable Pilot for locomotives
Date: November 11, 1913
Creator: Sledge, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Goebel, Alois
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement. (open access)

Agricultural Implement.

Patent for an agricultural implement related to ground treating. The implement introduces a novel mounting for a colter that will keep it in line with the draft beam, as well as aids in holding the soil-turning elements in place.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Vanderwater, Daniel B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement (open access)

Agricultural Implement

Patent for an agricultural implement. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Oldham, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins (open access)

Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins

Patent for an air blast apparatus used for cleaning cotton gins. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: McDonald, Osmon W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Blast Cotton-Gin (open access)

Air-Blast Cotton-Gin

Patent for airing out the lent from the brushes on the ginn. This also uses less power than the ones before.
Date: November 21, 1914
Creator: Ginn, Carrollvernon B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake (open access)

Air-Brake

Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for an airship of improved construction, which allows for the operator to change their positions to propel, raise, lower and steer the ship.
Date: November 10, 1914
Creator: John William Oman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship-Destroyer. (open access)

Airship-Destroyer.

Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm for Incubators (open access)

Alarm for Incubators

Patent for an alarm that sounds upon the temperature in an incubator either increasing or decreasing.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Poore, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Apparatus. (open access)

Amusement Apparatus.

Patent for improvements to the Amusement Apparatus that can be more easily constructed and supports swimmers by the use of horizontal and vertical bars on each side of the device with the horizontal bars rotate independently. Includes illustration.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Williams, May Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke (open access)

Animal-Poke

Patent for an animal poke that will go over the head of a horse, cow, or related animal, preventing it from getting under, over, or through fences, slacking bent wires, or prevent it from otherwise damaging or mutilating fences of all kinds.
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Williams, Osker
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap (open access)

Animal Trap

Patent for a trap to catch small animals
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Baker, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap or Dip (open access)

Animal Trap or Dip

Patent for a trap for small animals. Illustrations included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Morris, Leopold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil

Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton

Patent for machine that cleans harvested cotton.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Dickerson, Eustice E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures. (open access)

Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.

Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Repairing Automobile Radiators (open access)

Apparatus for Repairing Automobile Radiators

Patent for an apparatus meant to assist in the repair of automobile radiators by holding the radiator in place and keeping all parts necessary for repair easily accessible.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Jerden, W.
System: The Portal to Texas History