Automobile-Tilting Machine. (open access)

Automobile-Tilting Machine.

Patent for new and improved automobile jack that facilitates secured access to repair the underside of the automobile, including illustrations. Jack consists of a large frame, part of which is curved for tilting, water adjustable weight counterbalance, and wheel locking channels.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Weimar, Fritz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bail for Cans, Buckets, &c. (open access)

Bail for Cans, Buckets, &c.

Patent for a detachable bail (wire handle) for cans and buckets allowing bails and cans to be packed separately and reducing overall packing space.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Tiner, John Frances
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake. (open access)

Brake.

Patent for a brake (as it pertains to vehicles), that is operated by hand and that employs the use of brake bands and a drum to alter the momentum of a vehicle.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: White, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Charge-Moistening Device for Internal-Combustion Engines (open access)

Charge-Moistening Device for Internal-Combustion Engines

Patent for an attachment for cars. This attachment reduces carbon deposit in the cylinder and on the valves of the car.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Smith, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chassis Connection. (open access)

Chassis Connection.

Patent for improvements on chassis connections for fastening a truck body sill on a chassis without boring a hole or weakening the will, while making the connection easier to make as well as more quickly; includes illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Robinson, Robert F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Countersink and Bit-Gage. (open access)

Combination Countersink and Bit-Gage.

Patent for a tool to be used with a drill or bit that allows the user to simultaneously drill and form a countersink. It also has a bit gauge that allows it to be used for drills of varying sizes.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Storey, Henry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Comparative Performance of Roots Type Aircraft Engine Superchargers as Affected by Change in Impeller Speed and Displacement (open access)

The Comparative Performance of Roots Type Aircraft Engine Superchargers as Affected by Change in Impeller Speed and Displacement

"This report presents the results of tests made on three sizes of roots type aircraft engine superchargers. The impeller contours and diameters of these machines were the same, but the length were 11, 8 1/4, and 4 inches, giving displacements of 0.509, 0.382, and 0.185 cubic foot per impeller revolution. The information obtained serves as a basis for the examination of the individual effects of impeller speed and displacement on performance and of the comparative performance when speed and displacement are altered simultaneously to meet definite service requirements" (p. 3).
Date: December 23, 1927
Creator: Ware, Marsden & Wilson, Ernest E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton-chopper with two disk-cutters mounted to a supporting frame, which can be positioned parallel or at an angle to each other. Each disk-cutter is attached by a projecting arm, which provides foot support and allows each disk to be operated independently. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Jones, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper. (open access)

Cotton-Tramper.

Patent for an improvement in the "apparatus for tramping and packing cotton" and "for automatically feeding cotton to a tramper at predetermined intervals." The invention is to be used in a two-story ginhouse alongside a condenser and press box.
Date: August 23, 1921
Creator: Hopkins, Andrew J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Culvert. (open access)

Culvert.

Patent for a culvert which is to be used for sewers or other underground conveyers. Its is to be composed of varying materials that can be easily shipped and jointed together to form the sewer or other underground conveyer.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Charliss, Charles F. J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Stand. (open access)

Display-Stand.

Patent for incorporating vertical shaft in display stands for posters advertising motion pictures and merchandise, with illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1921
Creator: Gates, Norwood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Lever Brake. (open access)

Double-Lever Brake.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Double-Lever Brakes." (lines 6-7) and how the invention will provide more power to the brake and equally distribute that power. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Roberts, George P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator. (open access)

Elevator.

Patent for a new and improved design of elevators "for the purpose of preventing accidents" (lines 26-27) by locking the entrance doors while the elevator is moving, including illustrations. It is designed to be used by passengers but can also be adapted to be used as a freight elevator.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Williams, George M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ensilage-Packer for Silos. (open access)

Ensilage-Packer for Silos.

Patent for a device in "which the center and edges" of a silo "will be packed with equal firmness and solidity" (lines 14-16) of materials, including an illustration and description of the device.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Comer, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farm-Gate (open access)

Farm-Gate

Patent for an improved hinge mounting for a gate to swing and to served as a stay or brace connecting a pair of posts supporting the gate. Also, a provision of a novel mounting and operating means for such a gate, including springs for raising the operating levers on the gate used to move the gate.
Date: August 23, 1921
Creator: Rawley, Fleming C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flush-Tank Valve (open access)

Flush-Tank Valve

Patent for a Flush-Tank Valve. This is an improved Flush-Tank Valve, which will ensure that their is so waste of water if the float in the tank ceases to operate. For example, if the float does not work properly, the valve will activate and shut off the remaining water. The invention also provides a valve that can be easily fitted to any flush tank.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Hardt, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch. (open access)

Gate-Latch.

Patent for a gate-latch that latches closed with extension of the gate, but allows the gate to open by elevating said latch.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Bramblett, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology and Mineral Resources of McLennan County (open access)

Geology and Mineral Resources of McLennan County

Report published in a scientific bulletin, describing the geology and mineral resources that reside in McLennan county.
Date: October 23, 1923
Creator: Adkins, W. S.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain Bag Holder (open access)

Grain Bag Holder

Patent for Grain Bag Holder which is a simple device that will enable an operator to hold a bag securely at one side of a chute and which holder will quickly release the bag at the will of the operator.
Date: August 23, 1921
Creator: White, Ira B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair Clipper (open access)

Hair Clipper

Patent for improving structure of clipper forming co-pending application Serial No. 469,842. Simplifying manufacturing and adding other features.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: Monroe, Collier
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jet Propulsion for Airplanes (open access)

Jet Propulsion for Airplanes

This report is a description of a method of propelling airplanes by the reaction of jet propulsion. Air is compressed and mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber, where the mixture burns at constant pressure. The combustion products issue through a nozzle, and the reaction of that of the motor-driven air screw. The computations are outlined and the results given by tables and curves.
Date: March 23, 1922
Creator: Buckingham, Edgar
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lacasa Area, Ranger District North-Central Texas (open access)

The Lacasa Area, Ranger District North-Central Texas

This document reports the economic geology of the Lacasa area, Ranger district in North-Central Texas, with fieldwork done in April and May of 1919.
Date: December 23, 1921
Creator: Ross, Clarence S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Measurement of Pressure Through Tubes in Pressure Distribution Tests (open access)

The Measurement of Pressure Through Tubes in Pressure Distribution Tests

"The tests described in this report were made to determine the error caused by using small tubes to connect orifices on the surface of aircraft to central pressure capsules in making pressure distribution tests. Aluminum tubes of 3/16-inch inside diameter were used to determine this error. Lengths from 20 feet to 226 feet and pressures whose maxima varied from 2 inches to 140 inches of water were used. Single-pressure impulses for which the time of rise of pressure from zero to a maximum varied from 0.25 second to 3 seconds were investigated" (p. 303).
Date: February 23, 1927
Creator: Hemke, Paul E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measuring Device (open access)

Measuring Device

Patent for improvements to the measuring device used to ascertain the depth of a well.
Date: May 23, 1922
Creator: Bevel, Jack H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History