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Planter
Patent for planter, by Walter H. Boon
Date:
August 31, 1916
Creator:
Boon, Walter H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cradle.
Patent for an improved cradle with a hinged locking enclosure for providing protection against an infant falling out, intrusion of insects, excess sun, and inclement weather.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Vanék, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Handle for Tools.
Patent for a detachable tool handle.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Ligon, Arthur Lee
System:
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Automatic Door-Closer
Patent for improvements in automatic door closers with the object to simplify and improve the construction and utility of devices of this character. May be applied to doors of various sizes whereby the door may be caused to close without slamming or jarring.
Date:
March 31, 1914
Creator:
Grogan Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Stove.
Patent for an improved collapsible and portable cooking device.
Date:
March 31, 1914
Creator:
Davis, Emma
System:
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Collapsible Coop
Patent for a collapsible coop that provides a top skeleton and also collapsible chicken coop which is simple and practical features.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Willoughby, Alford Pervis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle-Bit
Patent for an improved bridle bit for veterinary services, including illustrations.
Date:
March 31, 1914
Creator:
Mateer, Wilbur N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Capping-Machine
Patent for a capping machine. The object is to provide a machine of the character specified, designed for placing friction caps or covers of cans containing canned materials and for sealing the covers or caps in place on the cans, and arranged to be capable of use with cans of varying size.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Peppers, Jerry Coatts
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bricklayer's Guide-Line Holder.
Patent for improvements in Bricklayers' Guide-Line Holders with spring controlled jaws for anchoring the holder to the brick, securing it in a stationary position on the wall.
Date:
March 31, 1914
Creator:
Knott, Miller & Bible, Adam Calver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Apparatus
Patent for an amusement apparatus of the character set forth with and inclined place made of a number of pivoted sections which may be simultaneously moved into horizontal position to form steps or seats and be held in such position by trip device provided with a target which latter upon being hit by a thrown ball will release the several sections of the inclined plane of steps and permit them through the weight of one or more persons thereon to aline one with the other and form a continuous inclined plane or sliding board down which the persons who were seated or standing upon the steps will be caused to slide and be thrown into a body of water over which the apparatus is erected.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Andrews, J.W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Deep Wells.
Patent for a device that uses hot steam to clean caked-on paraffin, mud, and other substances out of oil well pumping apparatuses.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Deats, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Steering Apparatus.
Patent for automobile steering apparatus, adding two rear wheels and mounting an enlarged body on the frame which will allow a considerable number of passengers to be carried and many advantages had as a public service vehicle.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Rebman, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Destroyer.
Patent for machine to exterminate boll weevils, including illustrations. This device administers insecticide and captures damaged plants and insects.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Henry, William L. & Calloway, Irven E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks
Patent for the mechanical cutting and scoring of box blanks with illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Daven, Michael P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracking Mechanism.
Patent for a nut-cracking mechanism that adjusts automatically to the size of nut with a variable cracking stroke.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Russell, Frank K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underwaist.
Patent for an underwaist specifically designed for juveniles that provides for more comfortable supporting straps crossing the back and chest at the shoulders, extending to the leg to clasp the stockings with the purpose of holding them up, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Ida Bassett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for Producing Fibrous Material from Rice-straw
Patent for a process for producing fibrous material from rice-straw. The process was created to fiberize and use rice straw. Rice straw had little economic value but creating a process for fiberizing it might help to make this resource commercially useful.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Toles, Justin Kay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tent-Stake.
Patent for a tent stake that is used with a metal guy or rope. The purpose of this tent stake is to secure tents under all weather conditions.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Basnett, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for an invention composed of various tools used to compress bail hay and/or other similar materials. Nature and scope of invention are explained and illustrations are included.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Preston, Cyrus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Half-Car Unloader.
Patent for the improvement of Half-Car Unloaders as it "relates to the handling of material in bulk and has special reference to a device arranged to enable railroad cars such as are sued for hauling coal, ore, and other like material to be unloaded by a single operation." (lines 13-18)
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Scardino, Mariano P. & Scardino, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Hood.
Patent for an "inexpensive to manufacture, and convenient and comfortable in use" (lines 17-18) sleeping hood to be worn while sleeping to prevent snoring.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Bloomfield, Emma D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening Device
Patent for Fastening Device which relates to "improvements in fastening devices and more particularly to latches and cooperating strikes such as used in fastening gates, etc. One object of my invention is to provide a strike for such latching means which is easily and quickly put in place, which is easily adjustable to different heights of the latching member, which is easily and quickly adjustable to different horizontal positions of the latching member, and which is so constructed that it is firmly but simply held in place in any of its positions" (lines 8-20).
Date:
May 31, 1912
Creator:
Torian, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match-Safe
Patent for a new match safe which dispenses matches individually, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Lewis, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Motor Drive.
Patent for an electric-motor drive that can be used specifically with a cotton tramper, including instructions and illustrations.. This invention serves multiples methods of improvement compared to current electric-motor drives, and will make the processes its involved in more efficient, while being inexpensive to construct.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Whitt, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History