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Warehouse Laws of the State of Texas and List of State Bonded Warehouses
Agriculture bulletin printing selected excerpts of Texas laws related to the state bonding of warehouses and markets, along with a list of warehouses under bond in the state at the time of publication, organized by county.
Date:
July 1929
Creator:
Davis, Fred W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Catcher
The objective of the invention is to improve to catching and destroying boll weevils with a device that is easily attached to a cultivator. This device includes "receptacles filled with an insect destroying liquid." (lines 23-24).
Date:
July 5, 1921
Creator:
Ploch, Alex
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antileak Composition.
Patent for improvements in antileak composition in order to prevent leaks in liquid holding containers like radiators, boilers, etc.
Date:
July 5, 1921
Creator:
Shrum, Will N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Signal-Actuating Mechanism for Railways
Patent for an improved signal actuating mechanisms for railways. When the train cars reach an operating mechanism, a flag will be raised where pedestrians or cars cross, and cause a signal to be repeated until the train passes.
Date:
July 20, 1920
Creator:
Bashara, Samuel Farris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Attachment for Scales.
Patent for improvements in advertising attachments for scales to "provide an attachment of the character specified, wherein a series of display members are provided, mounted to be moved into different positions, to bring different matter into different positions, and controlled to movement by the stepping onto the weighing platform of the one to be weighed." (lines 11-18)
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Funk, Arthur Neal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coal-Oil Generator.
Patent for improvements in oil burners to have the "means to permit the same to be positioned within the fire box of a stove, by means of the especially constructed support." (lines 12-15)
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Epps, Henry Gaston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comfort and the Like.
Patent for a loosely woven material that covers household furnishings so it can be easily cleaned and then reattached.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
McNatt, Lucie R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Rotaries.
Patent for rotary well-drilling machinery where the "ring or bushing to rotate independently of the table and the present invention is directed to means for accomplishing the rotating effect." (line 24-27)
Date:
July 20, 1920
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Trough-Valve.
Patent for improvements in animal watering troughs that has an automatic float control valve in connection with the trough.
Date:
July 20, 1920
Creator:
Striegler, Fritz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench with a head having a pair of rigid jaws to engage the object. One unique use of this wrench is that it can tighten any threaded joint beyond the degree of tightness that can be obtained by pulling the handle of an ordinary wrench in the usual manner.
Date:
July 19, 1921
Creator:
Duda, Oswald
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knife.
Patent for a knife with multiple curved blades used to cut food.
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Oertli, Henri
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon.
Patent for "a vehicle such as a wagon with means for automatically pulling cotton bolls." (lines 16-17)
Date:
July 12, 1921
Creator:
Jennings, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Grinder.
Patent for "a tool adapted to rotate valves of an internal combustion engine for grinding the same on their seats." (lines 9-11) It is adapted to connect to the cylinder "of the engine in such a manner as to permit accurate and quick operation of the valve for grinding it, and whereby the handle of the tool may be set at a convenient angle for manipulation, and may be lengthened or shortened according to requirements." (lines 15-21)
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Ralston, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Control for Radiator Drain-Cocks.
Patent for "controlling devices for operating the valves of radiator drain cocks and for cleaning the drain cock pipe, and the object is to provide a convenient device by which the drain cock valve can be easily and quickly closed or opened and by which the drain pipe can be cleaned and kept cleaned." (lines 10-16)
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Brandt, Herman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Ring Clip.
Patent for new improvements for key ring clips that will not detach in a seated position.
Date:
July 6, 1920
Creator:
Evans, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Rod Elevator
Patent for an improvement to rod lifters that prevents the rotation of the rods as well as locking jaws into their gripper positions. The locking and gripping is made more efficient and can release rods quickly.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Davis, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cable-Pump
Patent for an improved pump that can be used in connection with deep wells and provides improved construction that alleviates the necessity of having a long line of extra pipe and the troubling pump rod.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Fender, Joe N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon burners that is inexpensive and can take refined oil or heavy crude oil and make it useable as fuel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
St. Wrba, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Recorder.
Patent for recording instruments to use in connection with automobiles to record the speed of conveyance during the period of travel.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Bowdish, Harry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Prints on Metal.
Patent for a new way to print negatives directly on sensitized metal by dying the print, removing the dye stains, burnishing the "high lights," polishing the dye print and finally lacquering in order to make permanent. This gives the image a bas-relief effect.
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Snow, Philo V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Locomotive-Valve-Seating Machine.
Patent for improvements to valve-seating machines that allows for them to be constructed simply.
Date:
July 19, 1921
Creator:
Mooney, James J. & Bennet, Richard E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a pump for deep wells with a "specially constructed piston capable of a powerful working stroke and which will secure at all times a full volume of liquid at each stroke of the pumping rod." (line 25) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1920
Creator:
Humason, Granville Allison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sampling.
Patent for improving methods of boring wells by "raising the cuttings from an earth boring drill to the surface" (lines 70-71), including illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1920
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Cutting Machine.
Patent for an improved paper cutting machine that can achieve more precise cuts for labels, paper boxes, and cartons, and also has a clamping mechanism to hold the paper in place.
Date:
July 27, 1920
Creator:
Downie, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History