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Silo.
Patent for a reinforced concrete silo, including specifications and illustrations.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Abbett, Edgar J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard Doors and the Like
Patent for improved guards for doors.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underscoring Attachment for Type-Writers.
Patent for an improvement on an underscoring attachment for type writers that allows the user to use the functions of underscoring, correcting, and cancelling characters as they type, allowing some functions to occur simultaneously, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Aiton, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a burglar alarm device that is triggered by the movement of a door or window, including illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Alderman, Joseph S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Patent for an invention that relates to processes of making aromatic hydrocarbons, and comprises a method of producing lower boiling aromatic hydrocarbons.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Alexander, Clive M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Upward-Current Separating Process and Device.
Patent for upward-current separation processes and devices to allow for working with changes in conditions and proportions with ease.
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch.
Patent for a switch mechanism for use on railroads. The switch can be installed without cutting the railroad tracks. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Allen, Gus V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reel
Patent for an improvement in reels. The reel features improvements in how to attach the end of a film strip to the reel for winding.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Allen, Harry Porter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Slicing Fish.
Patent for new and useful improvements to a device for slicing fish into smooth and even slices, including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Allen, James Leonard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar Attachment
Patent for a collar attachment to be used with fold down collars to provide a means to hold the collar closed, with illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Allen, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Engine.
Patent for a pumping engine that pumps air, water, oil, or other agents. It was designed to be used for air pumps on locomotives, inflating tires on automobiles, pumping water in steam operated machines, and other uses.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Allison, Jesse H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a reinforced plow shoe that eliminates frictional wear on the landside bar and reduces wear on the landside plate of the plow.
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Alston, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Digger.
Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Amos, Thomas E. & Abernathy, George J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Drafting Rule
Patent for instrument used in drafting and ruling straight lines.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Andrew E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tape-Measure.
Patent for a tape measure with a claw on one end that the user can affix to a surface to hold one end of the measuring tape and aid in the measuring process.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Andrew E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grading Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in grading apparatus to make it "comparatively simple and inexpensive in construction" (line 10) and readily adjustable.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Lycurgus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a vehicle wheel that "embodies a flexible tread and radially arranged springs for absorbing shocks and cushioning the yielding of the parts of said tread." (lines 10-13).
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Lycurgus
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
Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring
Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date:
May 12, 1917
Creator:
Annan, Alfred H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Filter
Patent for Oil Filter
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Armstrong, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Protector and Irrigator For Plants
Patent for a combined protector and irrigator that provides protection for the plant from insects and other animals, and provides proper watering from a reservoir. The contraption can be re-used and be accommodated for different size plants.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Arnold, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants.
Patent for a machine that decorticates fibrous material from leaves and plants designed to be of low manufacturing cost and light enough to be carried on pack animals.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Askew, Joel Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watering-Trough.
Patent for a valve that controls the flow of drinking water from a reservoir or tank into a trough. It can be operated by domestic animals and automatically shuts off when they are finished drinking.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Atkinson, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhibitor
Patent for device which would allow motorists to display road maps in their vehicle while driving. Would also include a light so maps could be visible at night.
Date:
August 14, 1917
Creator:
Atkinson, Jackson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History