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Minnow Trap
Patent for Minnow Trap
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Bonner, John Sturgis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver
Patent for Life-Preserver. Can be used in any emergency situation but mostly in the water.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Carlson, Carl O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Holding-Clip.
Patent for improvements on a holding clip for "cloth or other allied material." (line 79)
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Crume, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for improvements in vehicle tires consisting of a solid tire made out of rubber, but which also has the same elasticity as a pneumatic tire and includes instructions and illustrations. The main goal of this tire is to act as a shock absorber to prevent serious injury from happening to the driver in a vehicle.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Downing, Otto P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for an improvement to the general construction of the wheel in order to make it easier to assemble and disassemble. The improvement also is intended to make the wheel cheaper and easier to manufacture.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Downing, Otto P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer Distributer
Patent for a device with a mechanism that will aid in soil preparation and efficiently distribute fertilizer over a field and prepare for the immediate planting of grain.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Duke, Luther H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbon-gripper and margin-indicator for writing-machines
A device for improved handling, securing, and carrying paper while type-writing; suitable for a wide variety of type-writer models.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Evans, Charles I., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Maize Header and Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved hand-operated implement designed for cutting heads of Kafir corn or maize in a more simple and efficient manner, including illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Grindstaff, Isaac S. & Johnson, Luke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Marine Vessels
Patent for Brake for Marine Vessels
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Harriss, Wade. H
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Handle-Securing Device.
Patent for a new and improved mechanism for simply and easily "securing handles on hoes, mattocks, picks, and other implements of the kind in which the handle has an enlarged end where it passes through and sets in the eye of the tool" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Harvey, Harry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Controller
Patent for improvements in oil controllers with interest in controlling fuel and air flow into burners.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Johnson, Albert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Journal-Box.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in car journal boxes, and more particularly to the box in which the journal of the axle of the ordinary railway car has a bearing." (lines 8-12)
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Law, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holding Pointograph.
Patent for a mechanism used in typewriters that holds documents to be copied indicates the line to be copied and shifts the document automatically. In addition, the patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Mathews, Louis T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Moving Picture Machines
Patent for improvements in attachments for moving picture machines through edges of film being lubricated or smoothed.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Parker, Isaac B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Well Drill
Patent for an Oil-Well Drill with the "...object of the invention being to provide means to prevent the drill from becoming unscrewed from the drill rod and dropping into the bottom of the well" (lines 12-16).
Date:
December 29, 1916
Creator:
Parker, Roy B. & Spurlock, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench with a "novel means for adjustably controlling the position of the movable jaw with respect to the stationary jaw" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Parmer, Ernest W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for new and improved Nut-Locks, allowing for "a simple, strong, durable, and efficient arrangement for effectually locking a nut on a bolt..." (lines 16-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 29, 1916
Creator:
Portesi, Santos & Taini, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Valve
Patent for Automatic Valve
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Pringle, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Knee Pad
Patent for a pneumatic knee pad for laborers.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Purl, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch for Automatic Passenger-Fare-Registering Mechanism.
Patent for "improvements to electric switches for automatic passenger fare registering mechanisms" (lines 10-12). Illustration and instruction included.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Savage, Harry & Baker, Willard L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
=Heater or Cooker for Cotton and Other Oil Seed or Material
Patent for Heater or Cooker for Cotton and Other Oil Seed or Material
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Sheppard, Orlando, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco-Pouch.
Patent for a tobacco pouch that will fit easily into pockets and hands while still holding the maximum amount of tobacco. There are also improvements on the ease of getting the tobacco out of the pouch.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Shumard, Malnor A. & Shumard, Malnor A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plastic Composition.
Patent for a plastic composition that lasts indefinitely, especially for coffins or caskets.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Stone, Oscar Ottoe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Material.
Patent for a machine composed of independently operated and adjustable mounted sized units for sorting and transporting grain sized materials.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History