Billiard Cue (open access)

Billiard Cue

Patent for a billiard cue. This invention is designed with removable tips. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Borroughs, John Vertie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Journal Lubricating Machine. (open access)

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
Device for Preventing Overflow of Tanks. (open access)

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