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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
Rotary Drilling Apparatus dated November 5, 1918
Patent for a rotary drilling apparatus that specifies in wells and mines.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Robert E. Carmichael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Level-Indicator.
Patent for a new and improved level indicator, intended for use with airplanes and other flying machines to indicate the angle of ascent or descent, as well as when the machine is on a level keel. The level indicator is designed to have a water-tight casing and weatherproof joints and has brackets to secure it to the airplane.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Westbrook, Homer S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magazine-Projectile
Patent for a new type of projectile that includes an initial explosion followed by multiple other explosions from smaller bombs contained inside the larger projectile. The projectile is described as a "novel and improved instrument of destruction" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Preparation.
Patent for improvement in medical preparation for treatment of eczema and other similar diseases.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Linn, Samuel S.
System:
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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
Sectional Link.
Patent for a sectional link that has been designed for the use on oil well drilling tools. It is designed to prevent bending of the link and from throwing it out of alignment which can damage the tools it is designed for.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Thomson, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.
Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Smitham, Nicholas L.
System:
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Actuating Device for Circuit Closers
Patent for an actuating device for circuit closers. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Young, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Shuck Chopper.
Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on top of a stationary knife-blade." (Lines 7-19) Illustrations are included.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Pluck, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with adjustable hoe positions.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Hudson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp for Pump Rods and Well Tubes
Patent for a clamp for pump rods and well tubes. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Fisher, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Lewis, Joseph Wesley & Phillips, Joseph E.
System:
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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Goebel, Alois
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Soldering Machine
Patent for a can soldering machine. This device is designed to solder multiple units of lids to cans. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Irwin, Wiley I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention consists of chopping blades attached to the rotary shaft. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Carlson, Peet
System:
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Blotting Pad
Patent for an ink blotting pad. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Charles A.
System:
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Brooder
Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Becker, August B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composite Railway-Tie.
Patent for a railway tie made from concrete and iron, which is more durable than previous ties of this type.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Smith, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Gum
Patent for a bee hive which has multiple compartments which the bees can travel through and, when keeper wants to remove honey all the bees can be sent into one compartment to avoid the danger of being stung. It also has ventilation and rain protection.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Caperton, William Elson
System:
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Baling-Press.
Patent for an improvement in baling-presses that uses a plunger operated press for maximum compression and minimum power.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Hayes, Daniel George
System:
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Wire-Coiling Machine.
Patent for a a wire coiling machine, which can make wire coils out of different types of wires for use in making doormats.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History