Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils (open access)

Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils

Patent for a process for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils that converts these fluids into more buoyant products with lower specific gravities and boiling points. This process seeks to meet demand for engine fuels, gasoline, and oils, and augment the diminishing supply of these natural products.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Adams, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Fly-Trap. (open access)

Electric Fly-Trap.

Patent for improvement to fly traps. The improved fly trap electrocutes flies and other flying insects as they enter the trap. In the trap, there is a lamp that attracts flying insects.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Bass, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Jack and Wrench. (open access)

Combined Jack and Wrench.

Patent for a combined jack and wrench. This patent focuses on a combined wagon jack and wrench, which acts as a wheel removing device.
Date: November 18, 1913
Creator: Gregory, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry House (open access)

Poultry House

Patent for poultry housing unit that is easier to clean than previous poultry houses.
Date: November 28, 1916
Creator: Siddall, Willie D. & Hassell, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Fly-Trap. (open access)

Electric Fly-Trap.

Patent for a cheap and simple electric fly trap that operates automatically, including illustrations.
Date: November 2, 1915
Creator: Bass, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Mechanism (open access)

Cotton Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Mechanism

Patent for Cotton Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Mechanism
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lunch Box (open access)

Lunch Box

Patent for a lunch box.This invention is designed with a secured latching lid. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Christian, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vending Machine (open access)

Vending Machine

Patent for a vending machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stites & Wilmore, S. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governor. (open access)

Governor.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in governors, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Hunter, Victor E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue Expander (open access)

Flue Expander

Patent for a flue expander. This invention is a tool for expanding boiler flues in flue sheets. Illustration included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Player, James Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic End Yoke For Railway Cars (open access)

Metallic End Yoke For Railway Cars

Patent for a metallic end yoke for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Kimbrough, Sidney W.; Watkins, William E. & McCarley, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "has for its object to produce a machine which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency. To this end it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same" (lines 10-14).
Date: November 13, 1883
Creator: Snider, John J. & O'Bannon, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Machine.

Patent for a sack laborers drag around the fields with them to store cotton in. It has a shoulder-strap that fits around the sack's mouth. There are two wheels, and a platform is attached to the axle. The sack is strapped to the platform.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Armstrong, Henry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists essentially of contrivances for setting the buffer or draw-bar and a pin setting, tripping and uncoupling device higher or lower for adapting the coupling to couple self-actingly with cars different in height" (lines 8-13).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Hale, Nathan Mathias
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guide-Wheels for Car-Trucks. (open access)

Improvement in Guide-Wheels for Car-Trucks.

Patent for a "device or attachment to car-trucks, &c., for preventing their being thrown off the track." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 17, 1874
Creator: Hale, Nathan M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for improvement in bale-ties. "This invention relates to that class of ties or hoops for cotton-bales, in which the band of hoop iron is provided with rigid hooks, studs, or buttons, and matching perforations as means for adjustably uniting the ends."
Date: October 23, 1875
Creator: Powell, Amos N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.

Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.
Date: November 8, 1870
Creator: Hale, Nathan
System: The Portal to Texas History