Emergency-Tire. (open access)

Emergency-Tire.

Patent for improvements in emergency tires to provide "an improved emergency tire adapted to be quickly and easily applied to the auto rim in the emergency arising by reason of the regular tire being incapacitated by a "blow-out" or other cause." (lines 12-16)
Date: May 25, 1920
Creator: Shannon, Harris Moore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Extracting Cotton-Seed Oil. (open access)

Process of Extracting Cotton-Seed Oil.

Patent for the process of extracting cotton-seed oil from cotton-seed meal with a hydrocarbon such as kerosene and making the hydrocarbon reusable in the process by producing a cotton-seed oil soap through adding caustic soda to the mixture of cotton seed meal and hydrocarbon.
Date: May 14, 1907
Creator: Bird, Maurice
System: The Portal to Texas History