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Air-Pump.
Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Runge, Friedrich Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm System.
Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Ammons, John Burck; Ammons, Evander & McGaffey, Otis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
DOOR-HANGER.
Patent for improvements to the door hanger, specifically aimed at car doors, including illustrations.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Mason, Charles O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom or Brush
Patent for metal brooms or brushes that are "strong and durable, relatively light in weight, and can be inexpensively manufactured" (line 13-15). It is intended for "sweeping snow, mud, slush, and the like" (line 16-17). The patent can also be applied for smaller version of metal brooms or brushes for other purposes.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Airhart, Noah S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Lamp-Shade.
Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Landers, Charles G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutting machine adapted for cutting corn and cotton stalks after the stalks have been stripped
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Pair, Robert, B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Finger-Shield.
Patent for a new finger protection device which may be utilized in needlework.
Date:
November 16, 1915
Creator:
Morris, Homer B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop
Patent for Automatic Train-Stops "particularly to a system operable in connection with well-known airbrake systems to apply the airbrakes, and shut off the power when an accident of a predetermined character occurs." (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Estes, Betram P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an aeroplane which is a device that is able to travel through the air due its shape and the reaction from atmosphere and gravity.
Date:
December 16, 1913
Creator:
Hanna, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle.
Patent for "a bridle wherein means for controlling a horse is provided." (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Hentschel, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lister-Plows.
Patent for a lister plow, which is a device to be attached to listers, plows, and other farming equipment. The broad design (consisting of mold board wings) and blades (or knives) will remove weeds or prevent weeds from damaging different types of farming equipment.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
McCune, Floyd S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Wheel
Patent for an improved automotive wheel “with a demountable rim for interchanging the rim in order to quickly replace a defective tire,” (lines 16-17) It also provides a mechanism for locking the rim to keep the wheel in place.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Watson, Chester A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for improvements on a cattle-guard used on railways. Improvements include a novel method of attaching the guard to rails.
Date:
December 16, 1913
Creator:
Solomon, George N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
HARROW.
Patent for new attachment for the foot of a harrow, including illustration.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Glover, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for the improvement of clothes pins "and has for an object to provided on their gripping faces with novel projections which contact in securely holding the clothes pin fast to operative position when applied." (lines 13-17)
Date:
December 16, 1913
Creator:
Mierzwik, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for new and useful multi-functional improvements in stretchers, specifically wire stretchers, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Lowe, Elijah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine.
Patent for a new and improved device within internal combustion engines "whereby water is converted into steam, and then delivered into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine" (lines 13-16). Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1915
Creator:
Harwood, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inside Trimming Machine for Trimming Wooden Handles for Tools and the Like.
Patent for a machine to trim wooden handles for tools. The "invention relates to trimming machines and more particularly to machines for trimming the inside portions of wooden tools or handles, such as handles for spades, shovels, and like articles." (Lines 10-14)
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Kimerer, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Oil-Burners
Patent for the improvement of oil-burners in which it is “extremely cheap and simple, which may be readily installed, and which is adapted to burn oil practically without smoke” (lines 12-14). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Hope, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Stuffing-Box.
Patent for improvements on well stuffing boxes, particularly in packing the vertically reciprocating pump rod and keeping it packed over time, so that the stuffing box doesn't need to be dismantled for manual adjustments.
Date:
November 16, 1915
Creator:
Church, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for a new and improved windmill rotor, including illustrations.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Smith, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs
Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Jack.
Patent for a vehicle-jack that can raise and lower all of the supporting legs using a single lever, as well as lengthen and shorten the jack at will to adapt it to vehicles of different sizes.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Douglass, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle.
Patent for a wheel-vehicle structure used on farm, road, country or the city, including illustrations. Vehicle with pivot axles that eliminate the jerking and shaking caused by common vehicles.
Date:
December 16, 1913
Creator:
Drew, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History