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Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Morrow, James Morton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Life-Boat
Patent for a lifeboat that can be rolled and unrolled from the side of vessels for easy access for patrons on boats in the event of emergency
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Dolejska, Frank & Herzik, Louis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beet-Harvesting Machine.
Patent for beet harvesting machine capable of plucking, cutting, and sorting vegetable parts.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Holub, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Journal Lubricating Machine.
Patent for employed who related to car journal lubricating machine and oiling all classes of railroad cars and streetcars. Also, its benefits to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of machines of this character.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fleischer, Lewis Bernard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Curran, William Ferris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Wright, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for wrench improvement. Allows for "instantaneous initial or preliminary adjustment to fit any size object within its capacity, and a final adjustment to engage the object firmly and securely and to provide a simple, practical, and efficient wrench of strong and durable construction, and equipped with ratchet mechanism for affording a quick adjustment of a sliding jaw and a threaded connection . . . " (13-21)
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Cunningham, Ira
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor.
Patent for a wave motor including an apparatus within a wave disturbed liquid using a power converting mechanism to convert energy in a more convenient form, including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fousek, Karl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill
Patent for well drill that enables its upper end to be struck without disengaging the cable with an objective to provide simple, inexpensive, and convenient use.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Walker, Merit Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kite.
Patent for a new design of kite in which the frame is adjustable and able to form different shapes. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Brooks, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Fastener.
Patent for a door-fastener, lock, that can be attached to on the facing side or from the inside so that the fastener cannot be unlocked from the outside. The door-fastener is light weight so that it can be easily carried about.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Scroggins, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prod-Pole
Patent for care of live stock and particularly the pod poles. This invention is to produce a pod designed to podding the animals when they are loading or unloading for the shipment.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Bishop, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Burner
Patent for the provision of spring pressed clamps pivotally mounted on a burner and adapted to engage opposite sides of the base of a lamp chimney and thereby securely hold the lamp chimney in place on the burner and yet permit the ready removal of the chimney.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Patterson, Simon H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for a burner constructed to admit a force of steam or air is sent through the nozzle with assigning to the fuel in fuel reservoir. This invention is used to burn the heavy crude oil.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Nicholson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post-Card Rack
Patent for racks for supporting and displaying commodities for sale. The device comprises a rotary holder or rack mounted for rotation around a vertical axis and including a skirt-like outer wall made of flexible material folded to form circumferentially arranged pockets into which the lower ends of a large quantity of post cards or the like may be inserted and supported in connection with certain other elements of the structure.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Honig, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Parcel Carrier Guard for Bicycles
Patent for improved Parcel-Carrier Guard for bicycles. Specifically the patent helps to prevent contact with the parcel carrier guard and the front wheel.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Apple, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support.
Patent for improvements in supports for cots or mosquito nettings with an objective to present a novel and convenient device that is applied in operative positions.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Pewther, Judson C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stable Rosin and Process of Making the Same
Patent for the process of manufacturing hydrogenated rosin.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Brooks, Benjamin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grass-Cutter
Patent for a grass cutter adapted to be mounted on some part of a train of cars. The object of this invention is to provide a cutter which will cut the grass from railway tracks and to adapt the device for easy attachment to a truck of the car.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Doak, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove and Range.
Patent for a compact combination range or stove with "a cabinet for culinary utensils" (lines 12-13). "Compartments are substantially thermally independent of each other" (lines 17-18), due to flue arrangement, reticulated baffle plate and a two-way self locking damper.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Holloway Louis Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper
Patent for stove damper to heat the cabinets evenly and thoroughly, yet allow the cabinets to remain thermally independent of each other.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Holloway, Louis Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a simple device meant for securing a pair of hames on a harness collar, including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Risk, Maurice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float
Patent for a new and useful fishing-float, aiming to provide a means for frictionally clamping the line within the float, so that the float can be adjusted readily along the line whenever desired.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Scott, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History