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Automatic Switch Throwing Apparatus
Patent for a device that will automatically throw a switch upon the presence of an on-coming train, and switch it back after the train has passed.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Bida, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Morrow, James Morton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Exterminator
Patent for a device exterminating boll weevils and other insects, which infest cotton and other crops. The device produces new means for producing fumigating gas, and its delivery mechanism. An improved driving mechanism for the device, which connects to a blower, is also part of the patent.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Rawls, Theophilus M. & Miller, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hat Display Rack.
Patent for an improved hat display rack that can display a full line of hats. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
March 21, 1916
Creator:
Williams, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester
Patent for peanut-harvester to plow vines from the ground and feed them into the rear of the machine to catch the peanuts that drop from the vines. This more easily separates the peanuts from the other foreign matter.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Winters, John William & Winters, Calvin C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History