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Bale-Tie Buckle. (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Patent for bale-tie buckle improvement for tightly securing single length wire prior to pressure release around a cotton bale. Further bale-tie buckle improvements include sharper bends using flat or oval wire to further decrease slipping of wire.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Frantz, Erza A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Skid. (open access)

Bag-Skid.

Patent for a device that will protect cotton pick-sacks against wear and tear when being dragged on the ground.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Ullmann, Fannie M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plate Retaining Device (open access)

Plate Retaining Device

Patent for a license plate holder for automobiles.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Stafford, Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects. (open access)

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for improvements to a device for exterminating insects, in particular corn weevils, including illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Geeslin, Robert Worn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clasp. (open access)

Clasp.

Patent for a new clasp, or fastening device, that is less expensive to construct and easier to use, with illustration. The clasp is to be used for the varied purposes of "hair dressing, millinery, drapery, and dress-wear" (lines 78-79).
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Fridolph, Anna S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer (open access)

Car-Replacer

Patent for improved replacers for derailed railroad cars, complete with illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Duval, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Protector. (open access)

Check-Protector.

Patent for check-protectors that prevent unauthorized tampering with perforating rollers with springs and jaws.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: McCombs, Charles Cleveland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle. (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: McFarland, Frank Hays
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Cut-Off (open access)

Automatic Water Cut-Off

Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Goodridge Wilson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake. (open access)

Brake.

Patent for a new brake design that forms part of the driving mechanism of a sewing machine. The design has been adapted to include a plurality of small rollers that exert different amounts of friction on brake wheels.
Date: July 13, 1913
Creator: Gaines, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Route-Indicator. (open access)

Route-Indicator.

Patent for an improved route indicator for automobiles "which not only visually indicates the characteristics and risks of the road" but in addition provides an "auditory signal to call attention to approaching hazards or dangers" (lines 36-41). Illustrations included.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Cranmer, Howard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Shoe. (open access)

Casing-Shoe.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Casing-Shoes whose object is to "clamp around the tread of a tire casing for the purpose of reinforcing weak places in the casing, for repairing 'blow-outs' and for the purpose of preventing the 'skidding' of the vehicle" (lines 13-17), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Tuttle, Frank & Hall, Lewis T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Mowers (open access)

Attachment for Mowers

Patent for a dividing and feeding mower attachment to guide grain into the cutters of the mowers in an upright position.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Mosely, Jimmie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch. (open access)

Railway-Switch.

Patent for an improvement to railway switches, by creating an automatic switch that changes the direction of a track from object while object is moving on track.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: James, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake. (open access)

Air-Brake.

Patent for train air-brakes to provide set brakes and same auxiliary pressure on all cars regardless of the brake cylinder piston travel distance.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Kiln. (open access)

Brick-Kiln.

Patent for an improvement for continuous and semi-continuous kilns, to decrease resulting moisture "without materially lessening their fuel economy" (page 1, lines 50-51), including illustrations.
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Montrief, James V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner (open access)

Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner

Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Gilbert, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship. (open access)

Airship.

Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Rainey, James E. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions. (open access)

Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for treatment of oil emulsions by providing a means that will greatly assist in the separation of water from oil emulsions and which will aid the re-absorption or retention of gas.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Minerals from Ores. (open access)

Apparatus for Extracting Minerals from Ores.

Patent for an apparatus that extracts minerals, especially sulfur, from ores. The apparatus features new and useful improvements, creating an automatic extraction that separates the minerals in a pure state.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Shires, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Determining the Extent to which a Nickel Structure has been Attached by a Fluorine-Containing Gas (open access)

Method of Determining the Extent to which a Nickel Structure has been Attached by a Fluorine-Containing Gas

The method of determining the extent to which a nickel structure has been attacked by a halogen containing gas to which it has been exposed which comprises preparing a quantity of water substantially free from dissolved oxygen, passing ammonia gas through a cuprammonium solution to produce ammonia substantially free from oxygen, dissolving said oxygen-free ammonia in said water to produce a saturated aqueous ammonia solution free from uncombined oxygen, treating at least a portion of said nickel structure of predetermined weight with said solution to dissolve nickel compounds from the surface of said structure without dissolving an appreciable amount of said nickel and analyzing the resulting solution to determine the quantity of said nickel compounds that was associated with said said portion of said structure to determine the proportion of combined nickel in said nickel structure.
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Brusie, James P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capacitively-Coupled Inductive Sensor (open access)

Capacitively-Coupled Inductive Sensor

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a capacitively-coupled inductive shunt current sensor. To achieve the other object, and in accordance with the purpose of the present invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the apparatus of this invention may comprise a capacitively coupled inductive shunt current sensor comprising: annular inductive channel means formed in a conductor carrying a high voltage pulsed current; an electrode capacitively coupled to said conductor on opposite sides of said annular inductive channel means; voltage dividing capacitor means connected in series with said electrode for reducing the magnitude of the detected output signal; output coupling means connected to said voltage dividing capacitor means for producing an output signal representative of said high voltage pulsed current.
Date: April 13, 1981
Creator: Ekdahl, C. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues

Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
Date: August 13, 1872
Creator: Gaines, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c. (open access)

Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.

Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids.
Date: May 5, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History