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Billboard
Patent for billboards built for wind resistance.
Date:
November 28, 1922
Creator:
Kelly, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Article Holder or Stand.
Patent for a device that conveniently and readily supports books, photographs, picture cards, and other similar articles. The new design is formed from a single strand of wire, and is specifically adapted for holding books in an open position and allowing the pages to be turned as needed.
Date:
February 28, 1922
Creator:
Boyette, Oren K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator-Door.
Patent for individual doors for compartments within a refrigerator, to protect items from being exposed to warm air when the refrigerator door is ajar. This patent also provides for the ability to apply doors as attachments to refrigerators without pre-installed compartment doors.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Jurek, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book-Cover
Patent for a book cover that can be adjusted to fit any book size.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Toland, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed
Patent for a hospital bed. Provide a bed with separate adjustment support for the sick or people with a disability.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Wallace, John. M
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in building construction" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Laughlin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Rotary Weighing-scale.
Patent for an automatically rotating scale for weighing material such as cotton seeds.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Henderson, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Saw
Patent for improving band-saws for lumber "which can be inexpensively produced, which will not readily crack or otherwise deteriorate in use" (lines 15-18) by "reinforc[ing] the gullets of the teeth that the tendency for cracks to form at this point will be reduced to a minimum" (lines 33-35).
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
McCormick, Merton H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Device.
Patent for a cost-effective device that can remove and exterminate parasites from cotton as it's being harvested without damaging the cotton itself, including illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Reeder, Leonard F. & Jackson, Walter B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cosmetic Lotion.
Patent for a cosmetic lotion to be used as a treatment for imperfections of the skin by inducing sloughing of the epidermis.
Date:
February 28, 1922
Creator:
Newlyn, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Bed.
Patent for Automobile-Bed which creates a bed space in the back of automobiles for users to comfortably sleep on roll-out mattresses in their vehicles.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
John S. Turner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock and Key.
Patent for a lock which requires a key that is adjustable and difficult to duplicate in order to prevent lock picking.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Dove, Bascom A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Furnace and Cook-Stove
Patent for combination furnace and cook-stove designed to burn charcoal and conserve fuel.
Date:
1921-96-28
Creator:
Weaver, Bertha H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roadway.
Patent for an improved roadway that utilizes concrete tracks and asphalt or bitumen filler to create a grooved, hard, and durable surface, with illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Moore, Stuart B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Casting the Hulls of Ships From Concrete and Floating Said Hulls Into a Launching-Bay.
Patent for an improved, cost-effective method of releasing ship hulls from a mold via "hydrostatic means and floating said hull into the launching bay or channel" (lines 19-21) without the need for exterior scaffolding, including illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim
Patent for a Demountable Rim designed for automobile wheels where a tire can be attached to the demountable rim, secured with fasteners on the rim then is can attach to the wheel itself.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Beynon, Arthur B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Casting the Hulls of Concrete Ships.
Patent for an improved concrete hull mold that allows for durable and efficient hull molding without the need for scaffolding or disassembly once complete, with a dual-wall design that allows an intermediate work chamber during the molding process, including illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for effective removal of cotton plants in an alternating pattern with a standard chopping depth, distance, and speed, with illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Antoni, Ernst J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch.
Patent for a railway switch to be operated by foot and without structural change to existing construction.
Date:
February 28, 1922
Creator:
Arteaga, Ignacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Broadcast Headers.
Patent for harvesting machines that provisions for adjustable attachments and elevator mechanisms used to head maize or similar grain crops.
Date:
July 28, 1920
Creator:
Price, Filmore M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Grading Apparatus.
Patent for a vegetable grading apparatus that delivers select grades of vegetables to the picker, separating the majority of vegetables into containers. The apparatus prevents bruising of vegetables and allows the picker to see all sides of the vegetables.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Rigney, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Vessel.
Patent for a measuring vessel that is meant to be used with a gasoline device described in patent application Serial No. 228,889.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
McKallip, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Writer.
Patent for a new check-writer machine capable of typewriting bank checks and similar documents with two sets of type, allowing for the printing of payee names, numerical amounts, and word amounts in a single movement.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Wendelken, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Tongs.
Patent for pipe tongs for drilling wells using rotary systems. The tongs are designed to be securely held against the drill stem using a lever, making them simple and economical to manufacture.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Hill, Richard D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History