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Aeration and Subirrigation for Promoting Vegetation
Patent for large terminal that can be implanted into the ground, which can supply air and moisture into the surrounding soil to stimulate growth of vegetation.
Date:
October 10, 1916
Creator:
Rife, Archibald H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Pipe Coupling
Patent for the air-pipe coupling. This invention relates to improvements in couplers for air other liquid pipes. The improvement is primarily designed for connecting the fluid pipes of an air brake system between the locomotive and coaches of railway trains.
Date:
September 23, 1916
Creator:
Bonelli, Liborio C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Mowers
Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date:
February 15, 1916
Creator:
Muller, Hermann W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cake-Rack
Patent for a display device of desert type foods.
Date:
February 15, 1916
Creator:
Jones, Seaborn W. & Postlethwaite, Alonzo W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Driving Mechanism.
Patent for a driving mechanism for an automobile to dispense with the usual form of transmission gearing and differential, to substitute mechanisms power devices through the medium of a suitable liquid [preferably oil], maintained at a predetermined volume, and to provide a noiseless operating mechanism.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Allan, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Refrigerator
Patent for a refrigerator that can house lunches and bottles inside a compact, small space. Will safely store materials without fear of the items inside being damaged or jostled during the movement of the automobile.
Date:
September 19, 1916
Creator:
Rilling, Charles G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bar Bending Appliance
Patent for a bar bending appliance.
Date:
November 28, 1916
Creator:
Jameton, Adrian O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bearing for Baling-Presses.
Patent for a bearing for cotton presses which allows for greater force and less friction.
Date:
December 29, 1916
Creator:
Taft, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blowpipe.
Patent for an improved blowpipe (or hydrocarbon torch), which when activated causes "an extremely hot needle flame" for a Bunsen burner (lines 18-19). Patent contains an illustration and instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Downie, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Block
Patent for improvements in building blocks, so they would be stronger, but lighter in weight, and cheaper to transport.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Boehm, Edward.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Camera.
Patent for "means for accurately focusing the main or photographic lens without relying upon the scale; to provide means for determining the full extent of the view to be photographed; and to provide for seeing the image upon a ground glass up to the moment of exposure." (lines 10-16)
Date:
August 15, 1916
Creator:
Overman, Charles Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy-Wrapping Machine.
Patent for improvements to candy-wrapping machines, particularly for wrapping sticky candy.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Gebhardt, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cell Tester
Patent for a portable device that can test battery cells to determine if they are outputting the normal current, of if voltage has dropped.
Date:
October 24, 1916
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Heater and Composition of Matter Therefor
Patent for Chemical Heater and Composition of Matter Therefor
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Paschal, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock.
Patent for an improved alarm clock with two different alarms that sound at desired time set and when the clock is unwound, including illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Buttigieg, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comb-Cleaner.
Patent for a reusable comb cleaner which is cheap to produce.
Date:
October 23, 1916
Creator:
Schimmelpfening, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Furniture.
Patent for convertible furniture used in education. Features a table which can be easily converted from a flat desk, to an inclined black-board, and can store building blocks and similar items.
Date:
October 3, 1916
Creator:
Barler, Eugene M.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight.
Patent for new invention in automobile. This is made of low cost and highly efficient. This is operated from the steering gear of the automobile.
Date:
June 13, 1916
Creator:
Pepple, John. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Controlled Electric Switch
Patent for an improved switch attachment that will allow a room, vault, or compartment to be kept lighted when door is open or closed, but may also be shut off when leaving the room.
Date:
October 17, 1916
Creator:
Kreter, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Action Well Pump
Patent for a double action well pump that only uses a single cylinder
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Jacob, Ernst A. H.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Guide or Gage for Printing-Presses
Patent is for improving feed guides and gages for industrial printers. It provides a simpler guide or gage to adjust as the printer is printing.
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Phillips, Lannes William & Haines, Luther B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History