Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for tools used for construction, plumbing, machinery, home renovations, and many more.
Date: February 27, 1923
Creator: Edwards, Charles R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Focus, February 2001 (open access)

Focus, February 2001

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Lee College (Baytown, Tex.). Continuing Education.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lee College Focus, February-April 1998 (open access)

Lee College Focus, February-April 1998

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.
Date: February 1998
Creator: Lee College (Baytown, Tex.). Continuing Education.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Focus Newsletter, February-April 2000 (open access)

Focus Newsletter, February-April 2000

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.
Date: February 2000
Creator: Lee College (Baytown, Tex.). Continuing Education.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lee College Focus, February-March 1996 (open access)

Lee College Focus, February-March 1996

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.
Date: February 1996
Creator: Lee College (Baytown, Tex.). Continuing Education.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lee College Focus, February-April 1997 (open access)

Lee College Focus, February-April 1997

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.
Date: February 1997
Creator: Lee College (Baytown, Tex.). Continuing Education.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lee College Senior Citizens' Focus, February/March 1995 (open access)

Lee College Senior Citizens' Focus, February/March 1995

Newsletter of the Lee College continuing education program for senior citizens discussing news and events, announcements related to the program, and other information of interest to participants.
Date: February 1995
Creator: Lee College (Baytown, Tex.). Continuing Education.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Swing and Couch. (open access)

Combination Swing and Couch.

Patent for a piece of swinging furniture for infants and small children which can be converted between a seat and a couch. This device is designed to be collapsed and folded for easy storage, as well as to be cheap and easy to manufacture. Illustrations included.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: McDevitt, Leslie I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Air-Compressor. (open access)

Compound Air-Compressor.

Patent for an improved Compound Air-Compressor by having four cylinders, in pairings of a high pressure and a low pressure cylinders. The air from the low pressure cylinder will be fed to the high pressure cylinder. The pistons will work in succession rather than simultaneously.
Date: February 17, 1920
Creator: Jones, Oceola
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Forcing Fluid From Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Forcing Fluid From Wells.

Patent for a narrow device to use fluid dynamics to remove certain fluids without loss of others. The apparatus is let down the well until one end is submerged before pressurized with air to seperate fluids and bring oil up to the surface of the well.
Date: February 22, 1921
Creator: Bodungen, Charles G.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Tool for Oil-Wells and the Like. (open access)

Boring-Tool for Oil-Wells and the Like.

Patent for new and improved boring tools. The combined wheel bit and reamer is intended to simultaneously bore and ream.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Belcher, Mark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Extracting Liquid from Pulpous Material Machine (open access)

Patent for Extracting Liquid from Pulpous Material Machine

Patent for Extracting Liquid from Pulpous Material Machine that extracts oils and liquids from the remaining pulpous material from the process of grinding and cooking cotton. The main goal of this machine is to extract oil from cotton seed meal.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Kinney, William L. & Cagle, Wiiliam E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Disk Gin. (open access)

Pneumatic Disk Gin.

Patent for an improved version of a pneumatic disk gin. It has been designed for "ginning fibrous material, such as seed cotton" (lines 13-14) and improves the separation of the cotton and the seeds with the use of its perforated disks.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Garner, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cleaner (open access)

Seed Cleaner

Patent for cleaning seeds. This invention will improve seed cleaning and catch unwanted seeds.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Garner, James C
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linotype and Intertype (open access)

Linotype and Intertype

Patent for automatic stopping of matrices.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Sundstrom, Herman T.
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twister. (open access)

Twister.

Patent for a twister used in "twisting together the ends of the baling wires employed in forming bales of hay" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen (open access)

Well-Screen

Patent for a well-screen which is used in oil or water wells for screening out sand from the inflowing fluids
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Rodrigo, Henry, Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Device. (open access)

Well-Drilling Device.

Patent for adding a drilling stem to a well-drilling device, with illustration. This invention will improve operation of devices.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Church, Walter Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade (open access)

Window Shade

Patent for "Improvements in Window-Shades" (line 6) including illustrations.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Johnson, Charles G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History