ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS (open access)

ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS

Patent for an Attachment for Internal Combustion Motors. This new attachment provides many improvements in the regulation of auxiliary air, whether it enters or leaves the internal combustion motor (Shine). It also regulates hot or cold air, or can shut off the air supply entirely (Shine).
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Shine, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grapple for Oil-Wells and the Like. (open access)

Grapple for Oil-Wells and the Like.

Patent for an improved grapple device that can help recover rigging parts from oil wells, including illustrations.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Reed, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete Building Mold. (open access)

Concrete Building Mold.

Patent for Concrete Building Mold that is composed to be able to be detachable and reversible.
Date: June 14, 1920
Creator: Rossiter, Jay A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Floor System. (open access)

Floor System.

Patent for improved T-beams for floor support, which improve bonding between the beams and poured flooring and columns.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Moore, Stuart B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reamer. (open access)

Reamer.

Patent for rotary reamers for progressively enlarging holes in pilot drills, particularly roller disk type reamers used in oil, water, or mining applications.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Humason, Granville A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Distilling Hydrocarbons (open access)

Process of Distilling Hydrocarbons

Patent for distilling hydrocarbons from crude petroleum oil.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Averill, Willard C., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction (open access)

Wall Construction

Patent for a relatively simple constructed wall that is built using concrete slabs. It is constructed in a manner that requires less material thus resulting in a wall that is hollow all the while providing sufficient strength to hold weight and pressure. Includes illustrations.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Needham, Edward F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sample-Taking Device (open access)

Sample-Taking Device

Patent for new and useful improvements for devices to take samples from wells. Specifically designed to take samples from hard formations, such as rock or other hard surfaces, being pierced from the drill from any depth in a well.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Dodds, Redus D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tool. (open access)

Tire-Tool.

Patent for a tool designed for mounting pneumatic tires on wheel rims.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Boone, Daniel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for a Washing-Machine which includes a base, a rotary rubbing drum with a foraminous concave rubbing bed of flexible material on the lower portion of the drum. Adjustable springs attached to the rubbing drum vary the drawing tension of the flexible rubbing bed.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Seifert, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Single-Trigger Mechanism for Double-Barrel Guns. (open access)

Single-Trigger Mechanism for Double-Barrel Guns.

Patent for a new single-trigger mechanism for double-barrel guns in which both barrels fire successively and premature discharge is prevented, including illustrations.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Lindsay, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for an improved clothes containing basket within washing machines that is longer-lasting and less likely to become imbalanced. The device increases agitation of clothes and water.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Seifert, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History