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
Snowplow. (open access)

Snowplow.

Patent for a new snowplow design for use at the front of a motor vehicle, steam car, or electric car. The snowplow is triangular in shape, and has sides that can be adjusted vertically, to increase the height of the plow.
Date: November 15, 1921
Creator: Jezova, Mary
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator. (open access)

Ventilator.

Patent for a ventilating cowl for buildings for fire prevention by causing smoke and sparks to pass outside of a building or deflate to the surface below. The cowl is cone shaped with a deflecting surface and has several rings through which smoke and sparks can pass through to the outside.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Ashorn, Inshrish
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Plows (open access)

Attachment For Plows

Patent for an attachment for plows. This invention "relates to new and useful improvements in attachments for plows, and my object is to provide means whereby the pitch of the moldboard or shovel may be regulated as desired" (lines 12-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Wilke, Ernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Baling-Press (open access)

Condenser for Baling-Press

Patent for "a device capable of being applied to any horizontal baling-press for the purpose of compressing the charge of hay or other material before it enters the baling-chamber" (lines 10-14).
Date: November 12, 1889
Creator: Bailey, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History