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Car Journal Lubricating Machine.
Patent for employed who related to car journal lubricating machine and oiling all classes of railroad cars and streetcars. Also, its benefits to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of machines of this character.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fleischer, Lewis Bernard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Curran, William Ferris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor.
Patent for a wave motor including an apparatus within a wave disturbed liquid using a power converting mechanism to convert energy in a more convenient form, including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fousek, Karl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a simple device meant for securing a pair of hames on a harness collar, including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Risk, Maurice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace.
Patent for portable field furnaces, that also provide a heating chamber that can engage the walls of containers of various sizes.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Winchell, Frederick A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Sheller.
Patent for an improved peanut sheller used for removing shells of peanuts and other nuts which have thin and easy to break shells. The peanut sheller can be used with a stand or on a table and is operated by hand.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Huston, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for an improved pipe wrench. Improvements include ability to use the wrench in two directions, wrench can be adjusted for different diameters, and gripping jaws allow for repositioning the wrench into the starting position.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Hardeman, Hardin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Lamp Socket.
Patent for an improved electric lamp socket "having a pair of switches which are alternately closed and opened, and having means for the attachment thereto of three conductors, whereby it is possible to light the lamp by means of a main switch" (lines 11-15), including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Elliott, William Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper
Patent for a cotton-tramper with less than five horsepower and an eccentrically mounted drum for more efficient cotton tramping.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Whitt, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Instrument.
Patent for a new dental instrument that extracts "swollen portions of the gum where it extends over the tooth" (lines 11-13), including illustration. Use of the instrument is meant to replace the common, but "objectionable" (line 56), practice of lancing the gum.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Knox, Eldon Lemoin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Preventing Overflow of Tanks.
Patent for preventing the "repeated discharge of the contents of a flush tank" (lines 10-11) and enhance overall utility that require a flush tank. Information and illustration provided.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Logan, Paul H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History