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Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Annual Report: 1915 (open access)

Texas Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Annual Report: 1915

Annual report submitted by the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking documenting financial records including disbursements and transactions related to insurance made by the department during fiscal year 1915.
Date: 1916
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance and Banking.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Pipe Coupling (open access)

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
Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for a device used to make butter by churning cream.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Davis, Thomas C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Seal. (open access)

Car-Door Seal.

Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date: October 20, 1916
Creator: Wright, Memory G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comb-Cleaner. (open access)

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
Bearing for Baling-Presses. (open access)

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
Vehicle Signal (open access)

Vehicle Signal

Patent for a vehicle signal. Intent of signal is to improve visibility of rear vehicle turn signals.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Rohde
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washboard. (open access)

Washboard.

Patent for a washboard, with improvements to the conventional washboard such as "having a scrubbing surface formed of transversely arranged, longitudinally twisted wires, which (...) have their ends cleated to the board which prevent displacement" (lines 15-19), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Butler James. F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well -Bucket (open access)

Well -Bucket

Patent for an improvement in well -buckets adapted for cleaning and drawing water from drilled wells.
Date: March 19, 1916
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tie Mold (open access)

Tie Mold

Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor. (open access)

Motor.

Patent for improvements in motors designed for motor-vehicle operation. Cheaper manufacture and less expensive fuel are included as claimed improvements.
Date: June 5, 1916
Creator: Edwards, Charles R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pressed Metal Wheel (open access)

Pressed Metal Wheel

Patent for improvements to pressed metal wheels. This improvement is directed at the assembly and securing of hub members attached to the wheel.
Date: June 12, 1916
Creator: Simmons, O.G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed Guide or Gage for Printing-Presses (open access)

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
Process of Catalyzing Oil and Apparatus Therefor. (open access)

Process of Catalyzing Oil and Apparatus Therefor.

Patent for improvements to oil boiling & processing to preserve its hydrocarbon properties by converting high-boiling oils to low-boiling oils using a specific apparatus for vaporization and a catalyst reheating device, such as a chamber furnace.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Alexander, Clive M. & Taber Jr., George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie (open access)

Railroad Tie

Patent for a type of support for the rails in railroad tracks.
Date: August 7, 1916
Creator: Huffman, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for improvements in the structure of wheels.
Date: June 23, 1916
Creator: Avery, John M.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Well Screen (open access)

Oil-Well Screen

Patent for an oil-well screen that provides a finer degree of filtering small particles from oil and gas.
Date: November 1, 1916
Creator: Scott, Clarence N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor pressure of various compounds at low temperatures (open access)

Vapor pressure of various compounds at low temperatures

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Date: January 1, 1916
Creator: Burrell, G. A. & Robertson, I. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Caddo Oil and Gas Field, Louisiana and Texas (open access)

The Caddo Oil and Gas Field, Louisiana and Texas

This article is based on the production of oil in the Caddo oil and gas field on the Gulf Coastal plain.
Date: 1916
Creator: Matson, George Charlton
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas (open access)

Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas

Article about Natural Gas Reserves production and Consumption in Dallas, Fort Worth in Texas
Date: February 1916
Creator: Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley) & Matson, George Charlton
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spirit Leveling in Texas 1896 to 1915, Inclusive (open access)

Spirit Leveling in Texas 1896 to 1915, Inclusive

The following report includes all the results of spirit leveling in Texas, rearranged by quadrangles.
Date: 1916
Creator: Marshall, R. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natural gas resources of parts of North Texas (open access)

Natural gas resources of parts of North Texas

Report of the U.S. Army Engineers describing the geography of Natural gas resources of parts of North Texas including the likelihood of floods and benefits of flood control.
Date: 1916
Creator: United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Engineers.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History