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Cotton Seed Linter
Patent for the improvement of cotton lint linter parts and construction. Improvements to the parts remove cotton seed lint before entering the lint conveying flue.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B. & Henry, N.B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Machine.
Patent for improvement on a bale forming machine that will operate easily, positively, and automatically. This invention described for forming and automatically securing wires around bales of hay and other like materials. It has a special object that is an improved form of clutch for connecting the wire twisters and needles and disconnecting them from a driving means. The clutch will permit the plunger in the bailing chamber to perform a predetermined number of strokes after the completion of the bale to be tied.
Date:
August 27, 1918
Creator:
Freeman, Lawrence K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship.
Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
Date:
August 13, 1918
Creator:
Rainey, James E. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Implement.
Patent for a carpenter's implement designed to be easily carried within one's pocket, with illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Smith, Evander A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow and Pulverizer.
Patent for a combination plow and pulverizer, designed for the purpose of improved plowing and sowing of seed, with illustrations and explanations.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Curtis, W. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Flour and Process of Making the Same.
Patent for cotton-seed flour and the process for producing it, including removal of the oils and hulls.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Baumgarten, Gustav Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Converter and Smelter.
Patent for an improved converter and smelter mechanism that processes crushed ore, including illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1919
Creator:
Miller, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Purifying Oil
Patent for using aluminum chlorid compounds to clean crude oil. Which is apart of the petrochemical process of oil purification.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Miller, Albert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union.
Patent for an affordable and efficient coupling device for use "on valve rods of internal combustion engines, especially those used in automobiles and aeroplanes or on those motors or engines employing overhead valves and whereby the union or coupling may be readily and securely locked on a valve rod with sufficient resistance to withstand the strain of direct pressure" (lines 14-21).
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Dickinson, Harry E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer.
Patent for a tool used for shaving or hair trimming. This device has a reversible plate carrying a guard and comb teeth. The plate being reversible to permit the guard to be used in connection with a blade for shaving and to permit the teeth to be used in connection with a blade for hair trimming.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Brasier, William Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-tool.
Patent for a device "designed particularly for boring out cylinders of internal combustion engines" (lines 12–13), includes illustrations.
Date:
August 19, 1919
Creator:
Dedman, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner
Patent for a "simple and relatively inexpensive burner" (line 9) for use in the kitchen with kerosene or other oil fuel.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Catron, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap
Patent for an ant trap designed as a ring-shaped trough and which allows for the drainage of rainwater through a pipe fitted with a porous plug. Both walls of the trough are capped with inward and downward curved flanges.
Date:
August 1, 1922
Creator:
Scrivner, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Removing Useful Fiber from Seeds
Patent for an adaptation to machines that will "remove fibers from their attachments, such as gins, cotton seed linters, wool-burring machines, and the like" (lines 10-12).
Date:
August 9, 1919
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a device that can be easily attached to riding cultivators.
Date:
August 31, 1920
Creator:
Starch, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety Target.
Patent for a target device for pistols and rifles which allows for the motion of the target being hit to move another target into view.
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Briggs, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed.
Patent for a bed, specifically the joints of a bedframe. The side rails for a bedframe are joined by tapered connectors.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Hellweg, Rudolph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coating Apparatus and Mathod.
Patent for a new apparatus into which long objects such as pipes can be placed, dipped into coating material, and spun so that objects are coated evenly.
Date:
August 24, 1920
Creator:
Watrous, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cuff-Link.
Patent for new and useful improvements in cuff links that do not separate from sleeves and help with any decoration.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Hall, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stopping Mechanism.
Patent for an affordable and easily operable mechanical train stopper designed to be installed directly on a locomotive.
Date:
August 10, 1920
Creator:
Evans, Alva A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Roost and Nest
Patent for a combined roost and nest for farm animals. The purpose of this new design is to improve the sanitation of current roosts and nests.
Date:
August 26, 1919
Creator:
Gilmore, Calvin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot
Patent for a cultivator foot. This cultivator foot is designed to be a new kind of inexpensive, simple, and efficient cultivator foot.
Date:
August 22, 1922
Creator:
Dawson, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Vacuum Dehydrator.
Patent for improvements in speed, cheapness, and more efficiency in continuous-vacuum dehydration and filtering for the purpose of extracting valuable ores with water including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Biesel, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating or Concentrating Ores
Patent for improvements in apparatus for separating or concentrating ores through a flotation method.
Date:
August 31, 1920
Creator:
Cole, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History