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Compound Tool (open access)

Compound Tool

Patent for a compound tool which combines the features of the nut-wrench and the pipe-wrench.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Scroggins, James L. & Waldrop, A. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil. (open access)

Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil.

Patent for "refining crude cotton seed oil designed to increase the yield of refined oil of the required color, odor and flavor." (lines 11-13)
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Jesse C. Chisholm; J. Chisholm; Chisholm, Jesse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.

Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Steinocher, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire stretcher (open access)

Wire stretcher

This patent is to help provide an improved wire stretcher.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Riley, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil (open access)

Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil

Patent for improvements in the processes of refining crude cotton-seed oil which increases the yield of refined oil. Improved results are are obtained by "neutralizing the oil with an alkaline silicate and then treating the oil with a mixture of alkaline hydroxid and alkaline carbonate" (lines 28-31).
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of refining crude cotton-see oil (open access)

Process of refining crude cotton-see oil

This patent is for a process of refining crude oil to increase the yield of refined oil of the required color, odor and flavor.
Date: October 26, 1911
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil. (open access)

Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil.

Patent for a process of refining crude cotton-seed oil of high acidity (e.g., oils containing from 1.5 to 12 percent acid or higher) to increase the yield of oil of the required color, odor, and flavor.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grapple (open access)

Grapple

Patent for providing a cheaper version of removing pipes or tubing from wells.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Drake, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incinerator. (open access)

Incinerator.

Patent for "an improved form of incinerator for burning garbage and other refuse, both solid and liquid, as well as the gases liberated therefrom, without the emission of smoke or noxious odors, or gases, and especially suitable for disposing of the refuse of military encampments, farms, hotels, houses, communities, etc., not provided with sewers" (lines 9-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Charles, Oscar J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life-Saving Device. (open access)

Life-Saving Device.

Patent for a collapsible life-saving device that can be stored in little space on a ship or dock and unfolded quickly for use as a flotation device for several persons.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Bradford, Thomas C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Stock and Freight Car. (open access)

Combination Stock and Freight Car.

Patent for stock cars and means for converting a stock car in part or as whole into a freight car.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Bertsch, John Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History