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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
Adjustable Window-Scaffold (open access)

Adjustable Window-Scaffold

Patent for an adjustable window scaffold. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Wright, Scott W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for an airship that is equipped with gas bags to control the ascent and descent of the airship and make it float in case of landing in the water.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Bradshaw, John F. W.
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
Armored Car. (open access)

Armored Car.

Patent for an armored car or portable fort, that aims to provide a novel and improved armor unit of that nature.
Date: December 11, 1917
Creator: Spence, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harrows (open access)

Attachment for Harrows

Patent for attachment of harrows that facilitate the use of harrows in pilling cotton stalks. This device allows the harrows to be in continuous motion creating efficiency in cotton pilling.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: Taylor, David T. & Barker, Felix
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker (open access)

Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker

Patent for an improved automatic circuit maker and breaker. This breaker specifically is meant to be used in conjunction with lighting systems.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Mulford, Benjamin R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic gas-lighter (open access)

Automatic gas-lighter

Patent for automatic gas lighter, designed for igniting the headlights of auto vehicle, the principle object was to attach a simple automatic lighter to any automobile which is cheaper and reliable.
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: Ben F. Keith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety Attachment for Air-Brakes (open access)

Automatic Safety Attachment for Air-Brakes

Patent for an automatic safety attachment for air brakes that can be attached to trains and automobiles. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Hamilton, Ernest Hubbard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Street-Calling Device (open access)

Automatic Street-Calling Device

Patent for an automatic street calling device for streetcars which says the name of the upcoming street/stop and displays it in the street car.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: McGee, Richmond M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines (open access)

Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines

Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Bell, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling (open access)

Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling

Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Cobb, John Ollen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Windlass (open access)

Automobile-Windlass

Patent for an improvement to automobile windlasses. The improvement allows automobile to be removed from any road obstruction easily and quickly.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Davis, Marion A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for a new bale tie made from metal, with "integral interlocking terminal portions" (lines 25-26), including instructions and illustration. The bale tie is "strong in character, constructed at small cost, of a minimum number of parts, and capable of easy and expeditious manipulation" (lines 18-21).
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: O'Riordan, John Eldridge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery-Mud-Extracting Device. (open access)

Battery-Mud-Extracting Device.

Patent for improvement of Battery-Mud-Extracting Devices where the mud may be removed without disassembling the battery or displacing of the electrode plates.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Irwin, Samuel D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beet-Harvester (open access)

Beet-Harvester

Patent for removal of beets from ground and transfer to carrying device.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Mathison, Andrew Alois.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Hoist (open access)

Bit-Hoist

Patent for easy removal of bits from drilling machines.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Parrish, Benjamin Eugene & Stage, Solomon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blast Device for Shoe-Polishing Machines. (open access)

Blast Device for Shoe-Polishing Machines.

Patent for blast device for shoe-polishing machine which is so constructed as to apply polish to a shoe and then dry the same and afterward polish the shoe, thus dispensing with the necessity of the employment of the ordinary brushes and other paraphernalia now in the use for the purpose.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: De Los Monteros, Gustavo Espinosa
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Patent for a boll weevil or insect exterminating device on wheels for use outdoors, including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Graves, James Newell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for a machine that exterminates boll weevils. This machine employs air suction for drawing boll weevils into a retaining box from which they may be removed for destruction.
Date: June 11, 1918
Creator: Stubs, Orace Virgil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bookbinder's Gluing-Press. (open access)

Bookbinder's Gluing-Press.

Patent for a bookbinder's gluing press, which can be used for books of varying thicknesses.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Giesecke, Julius; Nebergall, Ben F. & Oheim, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boxing and Bearing. (open access)

Boxing and Bearing.

Patent for a boxing and bearing rings used on motor shafts in engines and mills. The invention replaces the babbitt and brass bearings, which can be placed and removed on opening side of boxing.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Tipton, Clay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridle-Bit (open access)

Bridle-Bit

Patent for improvements in bridle bits, particularly bridle bits known as curb bridle bits. One of the objects is to provide means whereby the curb loop or strap is prevented from engaging the lips of the horse when strain is applied to the driving reins.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Bass, James O.
System: The Portal to Texas History