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Check Book
Patent for improvements on check books. The pads which may be carried in the pocket without folding the blank checks; and the object is to proved check books or pads which can be carried in the pocket without folding the blank checks.
Date:
April 30, 1916
Creator:
Bolles, P. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for new and improved Nut-Locks, allowing for "a simple, strong, durable, and efficient arrangement for effectually locking a nut on a bolt..." (lines 16-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 29, 1916
Creator:
Portesi, Santos & Taini, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colter.
Patent for the instructions on of how to construct a Colter including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
James Zedrick Elder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for providing "auxiliary fan blades attachable to a fan having permanent blades whereby to increase the fan surface, by attaching the auxiliary blades, or reducing the fan surface to its normal area by detaching the auxiliary blades" (lines 10-15). Its "intended for use in connection with the fan employed on the Ford car, although not limited to this particular use" (lines 16-19), including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Goss, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firearm.
Patent for firearm with improvements to the cartridge carries or lifter and safety device for locking the trigger, including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
McLean, Grover C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firearm
Patent for an improved firearm. This firearm that can transform from a rifle to a shotgun using separate barrels but the same stock mechanism.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Burnaman, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Scraper
Patent for a flue scraper with multiple self-sharpening scraper arms. The tool is "strong, durable, efficient, and simple" (lines 22-23).
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
French, Elmer C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grave-Filler.
Patent for a grave-filler device that holds dirt from the grave and can be shifted longitudinally from the grave and be titled vertically to refill the grave.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Imhoff, Louis P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sustaining and Stabilizing Attachment for Aeroplanes.
Patent for an attachment "embodying a lifting and stabilizing propeller [...] to provide a safety appliance of the designated character in which the propeller, when inactive, is disposed horizontally upon the body of the machine" (lines 24-34), including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Warren, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Plate.
Patent for imrpoved tie plates that will prevent the rails from wearing down the ties.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Barnes, Ned E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck.
Patent for trucks adapted to accommodate lumber, rails, or other materials of various lengths, to balance the load on the center wheels, requiring less power to move the truck.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Simpson, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new vehicle wheel that have adjustable tire sections, including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
La Croix, Cicero Hamilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel.
Patent for "connecting the wheel shaft with the driving shaft and [...] the provision of a wind wheel having wind collecting faces or pockets extending in vertical planes surrounding a vertical driving shaft as an axis" (lines 25-38), including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Iley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Drier
Patent for a clothes drier that is constructed to surround a stove or heater.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Gallsworthy, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roasting and Grinding Machine.
Patent for "a combined roasting and grinding machine" (lines 12-13) with a conveyor that moves the coffee from end to end.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Herndon, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a compressor. This is an improvement upon previous refrigeration and ice making machines.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Fowler, Paul R.; Gingrich, John A.; Tongate, Willis B. & Ridge, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C. & Garner, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Renovator.
Patent for cotton cleaner and renovator, which can also be used for other fibrous materials. The machine is meant to clean and renovate second grade fiber to a degree that it may be rated as first grade on the market. Patent contains illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner Regin Machinery Company
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Renovating Plant.
Patent for getting knowledge on how to collect the cotton and make it usable.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
James C. Garner, of Dallas, Texas & Charles S. Reynolds, of Houston, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Opener and Cleaner.
Patent for cleaning and renovating cotton and other fibrous materials that are found in the lint that falls from the gin in the regular ginning process.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Standard
Patent for Cultivator-Standard.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Urban, William A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements to Demountable Wheels
Patent for a new design for the demountable wheel with a new simple and strong construction that is made of a lighter pressed steel that may be manufactured at a relatively lower cost.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Simmons, Oliver G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Invalid-Bed.
Patent for attachment to beds for invalids. This device allows the invalid to be raised or placed in the sitting position.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Anderson, Young R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Separation of Ores by Flotation.
Patent for a improved process and apparatus use commercially to separate ores using flotation. By "introducing a novel step in the flotation process which results in the complete breaking down of the froth and at the same time keeping the volume of water used within the smallest practical limits thus preventing the washing away of valuable concentrates by an unnecessarily large volume of water" (lines 54-60).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Thompson, W. Albert & Cole, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History