Accident-Severity Rates For Certain Metal Mines (open access)

Accident-Severity Rates For Certain Metal Mines

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the severity of accidents in the metal-mine industry. 34 metal-mines documented the number and severity of all accidents over the course if one calendar year. This report includes tables.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Adams, William Waugh
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adjustable Book-Cover (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animated Sign (open access)

Animated Sign

Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Protecting And Preserving Poles And The Like (open access)

Apparatus For Protecting And Preserving Poles And The Like

Patent for add-on device to shield existing electric posts and poles from decay over time and weather damage.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Rotary Weighing-scale. (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Attachment. (open access)

Automobile Attachment.

Patent for an automobile floorboard attachment for closure of clutch pedal openings, keeping the motor's heat from passing through.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Sears, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Saw (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Cage. (open access)

Bee-Cage.

Patent for a new and improved design of bee cages that facilitates the feeding of bees during transportation and provides "the proper ventilation of the air through the cage to prevent the bees from smothering" (lines 17-19), including illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1920
Creator: Ault, Eugene B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biennial Report of the Texas State Library: 1918-1920 (open access)

Biennial Report of the Texas State Library: 1918-1920

Biennial report of the Texas State Library for the years 1918-1920, including the budget and summaries of the library's activities.
Date: September 1, 1920
Creator: Texas State Library
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blade-Holder (open access)

Blade-Holder

Patent for a new and useful improvements to a blade holder. It can hold any form of razor blades can be securely held and easily released. The holder allows blades to be inserted safely and then hold blades firmly into place.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Lightfoot, Roy L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Block or Follower for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Block or Follower for Baling-Presses.

Patent for blocks or followers for baling presses that has an improved press block to facilitate the handling of the bagging that the bale is wrapped in so the bale can be held tightly.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Becker, Irvine N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction. (open access)

Building Construction.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in building construction" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Laughlin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupler. (open access)

Car Coupler.

Patent for car coupler heads. This object has coupler heads that, when set in position, automatically lock.
Date: September 11, 1923
Creator: Tucker, Roger V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter (open access)

Carbureter

Patent for a carburetor. This carburetor is designed to be used with crude oil, and to be easily constructed and operated.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Walker, Sanders
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Head (open access)

Casing-Head

Patent for a casing head that is specially adapted for "use in connection with well drilling for letting the tubing down into the bore, and in withdrawing the tubing from the bore." (Lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: McGarry, Henry S. & Carr, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Change Houses in the Lake Superior Region (open access)

Change Houses in the Lake Superior Region

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over change and wash houses in the Lake Superior area. As stated in the introduction, "this paper, with a few exceptions, presents data acquired in a survey, made by the author, of change houses in the Lake Superior region. All buildings, equipment, and practices were studied with regard for the health and welfare of the miner" (p. 1). This paper includes tables, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: September 1923
Creator: Kindall, Cleve Edwin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cigarette Package. (open access)

Cigarette Package.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Packages" (lines 5-6) including "the method of dispensing or extracting cigarettes from the package and as well to the method of making a cigarette package" (lines 9-12), including one illustration.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Sohn, Elmer L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll-Cleaning Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Boll-Cleaning Machine.

Patent for a more practical and compact cotton boll cleaning or ginning machine.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Lokey, Allen T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer (open access)

Cotton-Packer

Patent for cotton packer designed for use in cotton gins.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Williams, French B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Pest-Poisoner (open access)

Cotton-Pest-Poisoner

Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer (open access)

Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer

Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper. (open access)

Cotton-Tramper.

Patent for a cotton tramper that allows the plunger mechanism to operate automatically when needed to enhance the item's utility.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Jacob, Ernst A. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curing-House. (open access)

Curing-House.

Patent for a curing house for vegetables like sweet potatoes. The inventors "have found that the ceiling and dampers therein are not essential to the successful curing of vegetables; also that an exhaust fan is not necessary and a pent house on the roof with louvers in its sides gives sufficient ventilation and excellent results" (lines 23-28).
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History