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Adjustable Electric-Light Holder. (open access)

Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.

Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Balke, Morris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship-Destroyer. (open access)

Airship-Destroyer.

Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ash-Sieve. (open access)

Ash-Sieve.

Patent for a new ash sieve for a home oven.
Date: November 2, 1918
Creator: Steindorf, Michael C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Dental Instruments. (open access)

Attachment for Dental Instruments.

Patent for a dental instrument which is to attach to a dental drill handle. Protecting the patient's tongue from being cut by the drill or grinding disk while the patient's lower teeth are being operated on, including illustrations.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Luzzi, August F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop and Adviser for Locomotives. (open access)

Automatic Stop and Adviser for Locomotives.

Patent for an automatic stop and advisor for locomotives.
Date: November 9, 1918
Creator: Battaglino, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train Signal (open access)

Automatic Train Signal

Patent for new automatic train signal. It was invented to improve train signaling systems for automatic trains.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Bulla, Melburn Bernie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bending-Machine. (open access)

Bending-Machine.

Patent for a new machine providing "a simple, efficient and easily operated fluid-pressure actuated machine" for the straightening of railway rails (lines 12-14)
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Keely, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for improvements to the boll breaker and cotton cleaner by changing the construction and arrangement of parts. The patent uses air pressure to move the bolly cotton through the boll breaker and cotton cleaner chambers.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Gillespie, Solomon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Card-File Cabinet. (open access)

Card-File Cabinet.

Patent for a lockable card file cabinet or casing that allows for viewing through a transparent top with use of a rod for moving cards back and forth. The transparent top allows customer information to be stored and used, but not edited without a key.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Reeves, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Farming Implement. (open access)

Combination Farming Implement.

Patent for "agricultural implements and particularly to soil tilling machines of the rotary type" (lines 9-11) ... "of simple and improved construction embodying a carrying frame, a swingingly supported adjustable frame, and a rotary tilling device mounted on the swinging frame for direct engagement with the ground" (lines 13-18).
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Corbin, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Oil-Can and Oiler. (open access)

Combined Oil-Can and Oiler.

Patent for combined oil-can that "combines the function of an oiler and oil can" (lines 12-13) and "is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture and one which will be very efficient in operation" (lines 18-21).
Date: November 12, 1918
Creator: Tumey, Alfred S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compression Indicator (open access)

Compression Indicator

Patent for a device that determining the compression of engine cylinders. Is meant to provide a more efficient and quicker way to test compression in explosive engine cylinders.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Lambeth, Acey L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine. (open access)

Engine.

Patent for "engines which employ governors" (lines 11-12) "desirably located within the crank cases to be effectively lubricated by the oil which is dashed about in engine operation." (lines 13-16)
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Pratt, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Explosive-Engine. (open access)

Explosive-Engine.

Patent for "an improved engine of the internal combustion type, in which the explosion occurs between two oppositely moving pistons arranged in a cylinder and connected with independent crank shafts." (lines 13-17). The engine also includes a new type of valve gear with mechanically triggered valves and an apparatus for the forced water cooling of the engine.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Cooper, Willis W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter. (open access)

Filter.

Patent for Improvements in Filters specifically used to remove "impurities from gasoline and oil, to fit the gasolene or oil for reuse" (lines 11-13).
Date: November 12, 1918
Creator: Caen, George, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Alarm (open access)

Fire Alarm

Patent for improvements to fire alarms. Improvements include an alarm device that activates when the temperature rises to a certain degree.
Date: November 12, 1918
Creator: Merrell, Frederick R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Stool (open access)

Folding Stool

Patent for folding stool which may be used alternatively as a sun-shade or cane, including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Bachtel, Sidney J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form For Concrete Vessels (open access)

Form For Concrete Vessels

Patent for large, concrete vessels, meant as a mold to "be used again and again in building different vessels" (lines 17-18).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Kroeger, Otto P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Glass Manufacture dated November 5, 1918 (open access)

Glass Manufacture dated November 5, 1918

Patent for apparatus to improve the overall quality and efficiency of glass production. This includes both window and sheet glass. It assists in developing sheet glass through blowing, drawing, and ladling.
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Thomas J. McCoy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Heading Machine. (open access)

Grain-Heading Machine.

Patent for a grain-heading machine for "gathering broom corn, sorghum, maize and the like" (lines 12-13).
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Davidson, Rufus Burley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grease-Gun (open access)

Grease-Gun

Patent for an applicator of grease to targeted areas with improved method for refilling, including illustration.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horizontal-Drilling Machine (open access)

Horizontal-Drilling Machine

Patent for a horizontally boring drill for use in trench warfare, including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hot Box Cooler dated November 12, 1918 (open access)

Hot Box Cooler dated November 12, 1918

Patent for the implementation of improvements to hot box coolers. This will assist in the cooling of hot bearings in railway cars.
Date: November 12, 1918
Creator: Edward W. Hartough
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator. (open access)

Incubator.

Patent for a poultry incubator that rotates the eggs (both automatically and manually) and includes humidity control.
Date: November 12, 1918
Creator: Crumpton, Enoch M.
System: The Portal to Texas History