Clothes Pin or Retainer. (open access)

Clothes Pin or Retainer.

Patent for a clothes pin, "preferably" made from non-corrosive wire, that can be moved along a clothesline while remaining clamped to laundry. It has the ability to hold clothing of varying thicknesses.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Tillman, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Flame-Regulator (open access)

Automatic Flame-Regulator

Patent for a simple mechanical means of automatically maintaining a desired temperature within an incubator lamp.
Date: September 25, 1917
Creator: Krizan, Joseph, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling Means for Demountable Rum Sections. (open access)

Coupling Means for Demountable Rum Sections.

Patent for coupling means for demountable-rim sections. Improved device that is simple, durable, efficient, and inexpensive to produce.
Date: September 25, 1917
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Gun. (open access)

Centrifugal Gun.

Patent for a centrifugal gun wherein a fixed barrel is provided.
Date: September 25, 1917
Creator: Brown, Archie Edwards
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Sword and Pistol. (open access)

Combined Sword and Pistol.

Patent for improvements in combined swords and pistols where the "pistol is supported by the sword blade adjacent the handle portion" (lines 11-12). The invention allows the "barrel portion of the pistol to be broken down or moved" (lines 15-16) to help with emptying the barrel and an adjustable sword handle to aid in the use of the pistol; includes illustration.
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Wigiert, Joe J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for the Welding and Soldering of Articles Constructed of Aluminum. (open access)

Composition of Matter for the Welding and Soldering of Articles Constructed of Aluminum.

Patent for composition of aluminum, lead, block tin and zinc to be used for "welding and soldering articles constructed of aluminum" (line 95).
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Wells, Clarance Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gathering and Exterminating Machine. (open access)

Gathering and Exterminating Machine.

Patent for a new gathering and exterminating machine for killing insects and other crop pests, with illustrations.
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Haynes, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blast Device for Shoe-Polishing Machines. (open access)

Blast Device for Shoe-Polishing Machines.

Patent for blast device for shoe-polishing machine which is so constructed as to apply polish to a shoe and then dry the same and afterward polish the shoe, thus dispensing with the necessity of the employment of the ordinary brushes and other paraphernalia now in the use for the purpose.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: De Los Monteros, Gustavo Espinosa
System: The Portal to Texas History
Row-Binder. (open access)

Row-Binder.

Patent for a type of new row binders by "use of rotary cuffs and adjustable bottom disposed conveyer belts" (lines 14-15), with illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Gruben, Edward J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil Destroyer.

Patent for a boll weevil or insect exterminating device on wheels for use outdoors, including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Graves, James Newell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boxing and Bearing. (open access)

Boxing and Bearing.

Patent for a boxing and bearing rings used on motor shafts in engines and mills. The invention replaces the babbitt and brass bearings, which can be placed and removed on opening side of boxing.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Tipton, Clay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crossing-Gate. (open access)

Crossing-Gate.

Patent for improvements to crossing gates through a device that helps facilitate the gates' automatic closing and opening position.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Hood, Lemuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Fence and Repair Tool (open access)

Combination Fence and Repair Tool

Patent for a multi-purpose tool related to working with wires in and around the home. It is intended to tighten, twist, and/or sever a wire.
Date: September 6, 1917
Creator: Grogan, Edward W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels. (open access)

Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.

Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date: September 10, 1917
Creator: Cole, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for the churn dasher. This invention relates to dashers, or agitators, for churns and similar devices and aims to provide an improved assemblage of the component elements of the dasher, whereby to facilitate the agitation of the material and to aerate the same. Illustrations are provided.
Date: September 5, 1917
Creator: Lambie, R.C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Tire (open access)

Vehicle-Tire

Patent for a bolt-free spring connection between a vehicle tires inner and outer rims, allowing for an air cushion between rims and improving overall performance of vehicle tires.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Horne, Henry M. & Buford, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Line-Type-Casting Machine. (open access)

Line-Type-Casting Machine.

Patent for new and useful Improvements in Line-Type-Casting Machines, including illustrations and instructions. This invention relates to the casting of "lines of type on slugs or bars formed in molds from metal supplied by a melting pot" (lines 11-13) for linotype machines and provides "novel and efficient means for holding the used or worn out slugs in position to be fed to a melting pot, improved devices for automatically feeding one or more slugs to the pot as often as necessary, and novel and efficient means for sounding an alarm when the supply of slugs in the magazine is exhausted or materially reduced" (lines 27-35).
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Wilmans, Lloyd I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements for Apparatus for Sealing Pipe-Joints (open access)

Improvements for Apparatus for Sealing Pipe-Joints

Patent for apparatus for sealing pipe-joints. Improvements and unique changes are explained in the text of the patent submission, accompanied by diagrams of the patent.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Woodward, Edwin C
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inspirator Valve For Intake Manifolds (open access)

Inspirator Valve For Intake Manifolds

Patent for inspirator valve for to accelerate the air intake to the intake manifold as suction is increased.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Brasier, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surveying Instrument (open access)

Surveying Instrument

Patent for surveying instrument involved in leveling telescope equipment at more optimal pivot points.
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Clark, Franklin S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Armor. (open access)

Tire-Armor.

Patent for "a flexible protector adapted to be applied to a tire" (lines 8-9).
Date: September 25, 1917
Creator: Oatman, Duke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for improvement in nuts-locks whereby a nut is coupled to a bolt by a washer with a pivoted tooth.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Harris, Joseph A. & Howard, Arthur W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Handling Device. (open access)

Mail-Handling Device.

Patent for a mail handling device that mounts into a train car to assist in loading and unloading of mail bags.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Kost, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Sealing Pipe-Joints. (open access)

Process of Sealing Pipe-Joints.

Patent for an improved method of sealing sewer or soil pipe joints, including illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1917
Creator: Woodward, Edwin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History