Automobile Projectile. (open access)

Automobile Projectile.

Patent for self-propelled vehicle with means for reducing a barrier such as a wire entanglement.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Elrod, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Steering Apparatus. (open access)

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
Loose-Leaf Binder (open access)

Loose-Leaf Binder

Patent for new loose leaf binder to help carry leaf support and means for separating the members and displacing one longitudinally relation with the other.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Moody, Jason B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks (open access)

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
Wall Construction (open access)

Wall Construction

Patent for the contemplates the erection of a wall formed of superimposed parallel tiers or slabs spaced apart to give the wall the desired thickness.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Long, Clarence W. & Stephens, Joseph. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Line-Type-Casting Machine. (open access)

Line-Type-Casting Machine.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Line-Type-Casting Machines, including illustrations and instructions. This invention relates to the casting of "lines of type on slugs or bars formed in molds from metal supplied by a melting pot" (lines 11-13) for linotype machines and provides "novel and efficient means for holding the used or worn out slugs in position to be fed to a melting pot, improved devices for automatically feeding one or more slugs to the pot as often as necessary, and novel and efficient means for sounding an alarm when the supply of slugs in the magazine is exhausted or materially reduced" (lines 27-35).
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Wilmans, Lloyd I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interlocking Tile. (open access)

Interlocking Tile.

Patent for interlocking tiles that obviate a continuous transverse mortar joint so that all liability of moisture passing through the wall is eliminated and a more substantial wall built.
Date: October 2, 1917
Creator: Waddell, Clarence W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surveying Instrument (open access)

Surveying Instrument

Patent for surveying instrument involved in leveling telescope equipment at more optimal pivot points.
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Clark, Franklin S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracking Mechanism. (open access)

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
Pad for Lower Limbs (open access)

Pad for Lower Limbs

Patent for a new single pad for the lower limbs, particularly of "feminine theatrical performers" (lines 12-13). Unlike previous pads which represented single muscles, the new pad contains all the muscles required for a lower limb in one, so that the muscles will not slip around when the performer is dancing.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Matragos, Nick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Sealing Pipe-Joints. (open access)

Process of Sealing Pipe-Joints.

Patent for an improved method of sealing sewer or soil pipe joints, including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Woodward, Edwin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel for Vehicles. (open access)

Spring Wheel for Vehicles.

Patent for spring-wheel that will supply resiliency for shock absorption, preventing shocks and jarring to the body of the vehicle.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Crowe, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Brush (open access)

Gin Brush

Patent for gin-brush relating to the speed and convenience in removing and replacement of rotatable brushes for cotton gins.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Murray, Stephan D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Street and Station Indicator. (open access)

Street and Station Indicator.

Patent for a device that announces names of streets and stations as well as names of business firms or advertising data, including illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1917
Creator: Dilley, John W. & Cook, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Hitch Mechanism (open access)

Plow-Hitch Mechanism

Patent for a plow hitch mechanism created by J. Butler and assigned by Parlin & Orendorff Company of Canton, Illinois with accompanying illustrations.
Date: October 23, 1917
Creator: Butler, John H
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Meter-Valve Protector (open access)

Gas-Meter-Valve Protector

Patent for an attachment for gas or fluid meters that uses the sliding valve principle. Improvments upon valve covers so that they are more firmly attached.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Emerson, Bennett
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Meter Attachment. (open access)

Gas-Meter Attachment.

Patent for a gas meter attachment that work with sliding valves to operate the mechanism that measures the gas allowed to pass through the meter.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Morris, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washing Machine. (open access)

Dish-Washing Machine.

Patent for an improved dish-washing machine with removable platforms to hold the dishes to be cleaned and water spraying from both top and bottom of the device, including illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Crow, Jesse J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton Harvesting And Cleaning Machine.

Patent for cotton harvesting and cleaning machine. The invention allows for seed cotton, hulls, husk, pods or other foreign matter to be gathered and separated from the cotton. The invention also allows bulls of cotton to be picked at the same time as other is being separated.
Date: September 17, 1917
Creator: Meier, John & Wallace, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Machine. (open access)

Money-Changing Machine.

Patent for improvements on money-changing machines to include multiple coin holding tubes and require the user to push only one key lever for change.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Furttinger, Fred P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for an improved cotton cleaner including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Line, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner (open access)

Cotton Cleaner

Patent for cotton cleaners which serve as accessories in cotton ginning operations and in the present instance are used with a pneumatic cotton distributing elevator or conveying means cooperating with gin feeders.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book. (open access)

Account-Book.

Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Front-Wheel Drive (open access)

Front-Wheel Drive

Patent for an invention that relates to front wheel driving mechanism. This invention is to provide simple and reliable driving mechanism between the engine and each of the front wheels of a motor vehicle.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Smith, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History