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Setting-Basin Separating Device
Patent for Settling Basin-Separating Devices. This device improves the issue of unwanted discharge shown in prior devices
Date:
May 11, 1990
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising Liquids from Deep Wells.
Patent for improvements for raising liquids from deep wells. "It has a particular application to the raising of fused sulfur from the well in the liquid state" (lines 14-16).
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Hebert, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combustion-Gas and Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a burner which can be used with either gas or oil, or both at once.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Runyan, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for treating soil for agricultural purposes. This invention destroys the ridges used for planting and growing cotton and also cultivating the soil in the vicinity of the ridges.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Kriel, John J. & Kriel, Otto J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for an improvement on a crude oil burner that can adapt to various grades of crude oil as well as providing intense heat to various sizes of boilers.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Runyan, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cylindrical Structure
Patent for improvements for hollow structures of cylindrical shape that provides "for formation of such a structure of lumber and metal materials of standard dimensions and shapes that ordinarily can be obtained from commercial stocks, so that the minimum amount of shop work on materials will be required." (lines 18-22)
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Pearson, Terrell Brooks
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag
Patent for a ground drag for "grading and removing refuse from the surface of the soil" (lines 10-12) that can be steered and that can gather and dispose of the dirt it levels off, including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Nelson, Charley E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine Fan Belt Guard.
Patent for Engine Fan Belt Guards. This device helps the fan shift from slipping off mother vehicle engines.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Brackett, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Can Cover
Patent for a milk can cover that locks in place toprevent milk from spilling out of the can, with illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Wisegarver, Marion Obidah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Cutter
Patent for improved pipe cutters that indicate when a pipe has been completely severed inside of a well
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Wright, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prepay Time-Controlled-Service Apparatus.
Patent for an improvement in prepay time controlled service apparatus that uses the solenoid and armature as a stopping means for the time mechanism.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Thompson, William H. & Thompson, J. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material.
Patent for an improved tire patch material combination and production process, which results in less water absorption and better adhesion to the tire.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Duffy, Clarence O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roasting-Pan.
Patent for a self basting roasting pan. The pan includes an impaling tube upon which the roast is impaled and includes tubing to allow juices of the meat being cooked to be transferred upwardly and flow down over the meat.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Holloway, Sarah Ann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Tire-Filler With a Flexible Metal Cable in the Center.
Patent for "an improved rubber tire filler which is reinforced by a metal cable or nonstretchable strand or strands to prevent the fillers from slipping while permitting of sufficient flexibility to allow the tire casing to be readily engaged over the filler" (lines 10-15)
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Needham, Moses W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Cover-Pad for Mattresses.
Patent for an improvement in sanitary pad covers for mattresses that is washable and contains pocket flaps underneath that can hold a sheet of waterproof material to protect the mattress beneath.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Callahan, John William & Callahan, Maud B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Separator for Storage-Battery Plants
Patent for a device that allows liquid in a storage battery to flow from one plate to another.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Cap.
Patent for a stove pipe cap that attaches to the top of a chimney and prevents "birds from building their nests in the smoke stack or pipe, which causes chimney fires" (lines 21-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Fojtik, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Holding Implement.
Patent for a holding device specifically for hoe tools while being sharpened.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Stoke, Josiah W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines
Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Picker
Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Hewitt, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poultry-Crate
Patent for a poultry-crate with new and useful specifications for a "light but very durable constriction that can be very readily washed out when desired" (lines 27-29).
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
White, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rug-Hanger.
Patent for the improvement of rug-hangers. The invention consists of multiple rollers that facilitate both the mounting and disengagement of rugs or other large flexible articles of merchandise from the hanger.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Griffin, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Fitting Stool.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a shoe fitting stool which "comprises a simple and efficient means of this nature so arranged that the measurements of the foot of a person may be quickly and readily determined." (lines 15-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Reed, Allen Trousdale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Threshold
Patent for an improved threshold to fit the bottom of a door more properly to "prevent the entrance of dust, wind, and rain" (lines 16-17).
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Krause, Ernest
System:
The Portal to Texas History