Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton

Patent for an improvement to boll breakers and cotton cleaners by performing the tasks of picking, cleaning, beating, and spreading more efficiently and effectively.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Streun, John Arnold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Derailing Block dated October 1, 1918 (open access)

Derailing Block dated October 1, 1918

Patent for new and improved detailing rocks for railroads. What makes this unique is that the clamp can be quickly and effectively clamped to railroad tracks.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Samuel Harvey Garrett & Joseph Owen Staude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Butter-Mold (open access)

Butter-Mold

Patent for "a butter mold embodying means for cutting and shaping a piece of wrapping paper to conform to the configuration of the mold in which it is adapted to be placed to receive the butter." (lines 9-13).
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Higginbotham, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Huller-Gins (open access)

Attachment for Huller-Gins

Patent for the type of cotton gin known as huller gins. It is an attachment intended to force cotton through portions of the huller gin that often becomes blocked by accumulated detritus.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Prichard, William Mathews
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Maximum-Speed Controller (open access)

Automatic Maximum-Speed Controller

Patent for improvements is construction and adaptation of a gear pump.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Awning-Lock (open access)

Awning-Lock

Patent for a novel locking attachment for awning locks. Device locks so that is it inaccessible from the outside, therefore providing security from intruders.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Hatchl, Harold C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clasp or Fastener for Garments. (open access)

Clasp or Fastener for Garments.

Patent for a clasp or fastener for garments, designed to replace hooks and buttons as fasteners of womens' garments, including illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1918
Creator: Sanger, Isaac L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Patent for Boll-Weevil Exterminator. Aims to provide a novel and improved apparatus for gathering the boll weevil and squares by air suction to catch insects and pests.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Harrison, James H.; Hall, Samuel E. & Gholson, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Lock for Cotton Gins (open access)

Automatic Lock for Cotton Gins

Patent for an automatic lock for cotton gins. It provides an automatic latch having a constant tendency toward the latching position, but yieldable to the opening of breast of the cotton gin. This is to prevent accidents involving the removing of obstruction in the gin happening to those removing the obstruction. Illustrations are provided.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Henson, W.M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine. (open access)

Advertising-Machine.

Patent for a machine that displays advertisements in a rotation.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Barnett, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner. (open access)

Boll Breaker and Cleaner.

Patent for a device that attaches to a cotton gin that cleans and crushes the cotton bolls.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Streun, John Arnold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for removing dead bolls, insects and other parasites from growing plants.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Harper, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from passing along a certain point of a railroad track from an inclosure (sic)" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Bullard, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses. (open access)

Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses.

Patent for an attachment for bale-forming presses consisting of needles, wire storage spools, and a "yieldable mechanism" allowing the wire to pass (line 17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Freeman, Lawrence K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjusting and Locking Device for Skid Chains. (open access)

Adjusting and Locking Device for Skid Chains.

Patent for anti-skid chains for use on automobile wheels and tires which may be locked to prevent slipping.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Boyd, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anticreeper for Railway Rails. (open access)

Anticreeper for Railway Rails.

Patent for an anti-creeper with improved strength and serviceability "in the location and construction of the tie abutting portion" (lines 28-29).
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Weston, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turbine-Motor (open access)

Turbine-Motor

Patent for improvements in the construction and use of turbine motors.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Smithey, Walter Duke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knife-Sharpener. (open access)

Knife-Sharpener.

Patent for improvements in knife-sharpeners that can be clamped onto a table or similar object, including an illustration. The device has also been "adapted for use in connection with a pair of bits or cutters having convex cutting edges disposed in confronting relation, the bits or cutters being capable of adjustment to present new portions of the respective cutting edges for effective work as the occasion requires" (lines 17-23).
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Kirlin, Wiliam B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifter and Turner. (open access)

Lifter and Turner.

Patent for a lifter and turner tool to lift pots, pans, kettles and lids, and for turning and lifting food.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Milliorn, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Latch for Grain-Car Doors. (open access)

Latch for Grain-Car Doors.

Patent for a latch that may used on any grain car door. The latch allows for the door to be locked open or closed.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Grogan, Edward W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown and Portable Frame and Hoist. (open access)

Knockdown and Portable Frame and Hoist.

Patent for a knockdown and portable frame and hoist as a combined structure for "easy and convenient transportation" (line 19).
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Shook, Jessie Alonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator (open access)

Lubricator

Patent for a lubricator "in which an atomizing fluid is mixed with the lubricant" (lines 13-14) and provides for "an improved mixing chamber" (lines 15-16) as well as "an inclined surface on which the oil is dropped" (lines 22-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Hebel, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Construction (open access)

Valve Construction

Patent for improved valve construction which permits unobstructed passage from valves to intake and exhaust pipe in motor vehicles.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Smith, Thomas Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twisting Device. (open access)

Twisting Device.

Patent for a twisting machine that can tie and secure cords around bales while reducing the likelihood of slipping inside the tying machine, including illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew Tilmon
System: The Portal to Texas History