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Clip for Eyeglass Cases and The Like (open access)

Clip for Eyeglass Cases and The Like

Patent for a clip for eyeglass cases and the like. Meant to provide an inexpensive and simple clip to hold eyeglass cases in the pocket to prevent displacement.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Evans, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Headlight. (open access)

Automobile Headlight.

Patent for an improved automobile headlight equipped with a movable lens and reflector to cast light down towards the roadway.
Date: November 14, 1922
Creator: Head, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Support (open access)

Mirror Support

Patent for improvements in mirror supports are primarily adapted by travelers. The mirror can also be supported by an electric bulb and can also be turned at varying desired angles.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Reavis, Jesse O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill Bit (open access)

Drill Bit

Patent for improvements in drill bits, particularly in the application used in drilling in soft formations, such as clay, gumbo, or similar material. The purpose of the invention is to provide a way to prevent the sticking of material to the drill and drill collar while the drilling operation is being performed.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Childs, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process For The Reduction Of Iron And Lead Ores. (open access)

Process For The Reduction Of Iron And Lead Ores.

Patent for a process that reduces iron and lead ores. This is done through two distinct combustion processes, the first of which converts the fuel and oxygen into carbon dioxide and the second process which produces carbon monoxide, that can produce iron or steel of different grades.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Anderson, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combustion Apparatus (open access)

Combustion Apparatus

Patent for a combustion apparatus that will maximize the heat produced with any given amount of fuel.
Date: December 14, 1920
Creator: Anderson, Robert James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Building Concrete Structures. (open access)

Apparatus for Building Concrete Structures.

Patent for an apparatus for building concrete structures that includes the method or process of erection.
Date: November 14, 1922
Creator: Sands, Edward E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction (open access)

Building Construction

Patent for building construction that is new and a useful improvement to sleeping porch construction.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Trost, Henry Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Banjo. (open access)

Banjo.

Patent for facilitating the safe packing, storage, and shipment of banjos and other similar musical instruments, including one illustration.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Brown, Norman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for an efficient burner of crude or fuel oil that can be used with less dangerous fuels while maintaining the same high level of heat and vaporization necessary for use in domestic environments.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Holmes, Watson W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polish-Box Opener. (open access)

Polish-Box Opener.

Patent for a tool designed to open boxes of shoe polish paste.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Ramon, Zaragoza Gonsalez
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road Grader and Drag (open access)

Road Grader and Drag

Patent for improving road maintenance and construction.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Herring, Jesie M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture and Automobile Body Polish. (open access)

Furniture and Automobile Body Polish.

Patent for furniture and automobile polish made with an asphalt base for varnished and enameled surfaces such as automobile bodies, pianos, linoleum, stained floors, leather, and rubberized fabrics.
Date: November 14, 1922
Creator: Lomax, Thornton G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Container (open access)

Container

Patent for container of heavy fluids and greases able to expel the contents through an opening. This is intended to replace ordinary salve jars, which do not protect contents from contaminants.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Bronson, Arthur S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Separator. (open access)

Centrifugal Separator.

Patent for a centrifuge that can effectively and efficiently separate heavy oils from acids "with which the oil has been mixed or emulsified as a clarifying or decolorizing agent" (lines 14-16), with illustrations.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Paul, Christian F., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Disk Gin. (open access)

Pneumatic Disk Gin.

Patent for an improved version of a pneumatic disk gin. It has been designed for "ginning fibrous material, such as seed cotton" (lines 13-14) and improves the separation of the cotton and the seeds with the use of its perforated disks.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Garner, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cleaner (open access)

Seed Cleaner

Patent for cleaning seeds. This invention will improve seed cleaning and catch unwanted seeds.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Garner, James C
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Stove. (open access)

Gas Stove.

Patent for a gas stove that is "simple, inexpensive, durable and reliable" (lines 9-10). Gas will be distributed more evenly throughout the stove and better sealing prevents gas odors from escaping.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Wood, Thomas E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener (open access)

Can Opener

Patent for a can opener which cuts cleanly and rapidly around the outside wall of the can, so as to avoid jagged edges.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Minor, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Apparatus. (open access)

Safety Apparatus.

Patent for vehicle to safely have the right of way when reaching a crossing first.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Duran, Arturo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Separator. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Separator.

Patent for cotton cleaner and separator. This will allow cotton to be cleaned without twisting or tangling, while removing dust, dirt and leaves.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Hillmann, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Writing Pen. (open access)

Writing Pen.

Patent for a dip pen or nib pen, with innovations concentrating on the tip (nib). The tip is moderately sharp to glide over paper, bent for smooth writing and ink conservation, and stiff "to enable it to be used in making carbon copies" (lines 26-27).
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Block, Henry, 1875-1939
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-stretching Tool. (open access)

Wire-stretching Tool.

Patent for "a simple tool, easily manufactured and readily taken apart, which can be conveniently carried by one man, and with which he can stretch wire to the proper tension and readily fasten same, said tool being also adapted to be used in cutting wire and removing staples."
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Manly, Walter D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Valves" (lines 5-6) used in pneumatic inner tubes to stop leakage, including illustrations.
Date: December 14, 1920
Creator: Cheek, Alex L.
System: The Portal to Texas History