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Shutter-Operating Attachment For Photographic Cameras. (open access)

Shutter-Operating Attachment For Photographic Cameras.

Patent for shuttering operating attachment for photographic cameras. Small mechanical device that is operated by a thumb-lever that causes the shutter of the photographic camera to operate.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Atwood, Harry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Heading Knife. (open access)

Corn-Heading Knife.

Patent for a corn cutting knife that straps to the hand and protects the fingers for a more efficient harvesting of corn and maize.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Buchanan, Lemuel O.; Maddox, John S.; Russell, James P. & Speers, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Indicator for Street-Cars. (open access)

Electrical Indicator for Street-Cars.

Patent for Electrical indicator for street cars the display to the passengers the names of the streets passed by the car.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Header. (open access)

Corn-Header.

Patent for a device for the removal of the heads of corn. The device contains a blade and attaches to a person's hand.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Hooper, Howard Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Lock. (open access)

Sash-Lock.

Patent for a sash lock that comprises two members that are secured together in a manner to hold the meeting rails in close contact.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Huber, Frederick K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose Coupling (open access)

Hose Coupling

Patent is for improved efficiency pipe couplers on railway cars.
Date: August 2, 1916
Creator: Krueger, F. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pulley-Block. (open access)

Pulley-Block.

Patent for an improvement on pulley blocks that sustains the pulley block from vertical movement. The improvement consists of a U-shaped suspending member equipped with a depending prong that can engage support.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: La Croix, Cicero H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Carbureters. (open access)

Attachment for Carbureters.

Patent for improvement in attachments for carbureters that uses a hydro-carbon engine to induce a vertical whirl.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Loose, Robert D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rifle Bolt (open access)

Rifle Bolt

Patent for a new style of bolt for bolt action rifles. Designed with the purpose of fulfilling the same functionality as a bolt on the Springfield Rifle, while using less parts and requiring no other modifications to the Springfield rifle.
Date: October 2, 1916
Creator: Mudd, Thomas, O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine (open access)

Internal Combustion Engine

Patent for Internal Combustion Engine design
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Roquemore, Abb L. & Fallwell, Oscar M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a new and durable valve design, with illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Villareal, Patricio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Furniture. (open access)

Brace for Furniture.

Patent for an improved furniture brace that uses wire "for connecting parts of beds, tables and chairs for the purpose of strengthening [...] in which the tightening means lies substantially in the plane of the tightening wires so that there is no twisting action on the tightening means" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Wittliff, Theodore H.
System: The Portal to Texas History