Key-Ring Holder. (open access)

Key-Ring Holder.

Patent for an improved device which holds key rings, and may be fastened to a belt.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Kropp, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Submarine Destroyer (open access)

Multiple Submarine Destroyer

Patent for a munitions delivery system designed for anti-submarine warfare. Specifically, this devise is a multi-stage explosive that periodically (period of deployment determined by depth measurement) deploys first a primary detonating charge, followed up by the detonation of multiple, smaller charges scattered by the primary explosion, ensuring an area of effect should the primary canister miss it's intended target. The patent notes that should the canister actually make contact with an object on it's bottom facing, all explosives in the canister will be triggered at once.
Date: October 1, 1917
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Half-Car Unloader. (open access)

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
Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process (open access)

Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process

Patent for cotton treating apparatus and process, cleaning the cotton as it is removed from bolls and then formed in to bales.
Date: February 6, 1917
Creator: Dunlap, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History