Antifreezing Outlet-Valve for Tanks. (open access)

Antifreezing Outlet-Valve for Tanks.

Patent for a new and improved "valve-operating mechanism which cannot be rendered inoperative by ice forming in the tank, and also whereby the valve itself cannot become frozen" (lines 26-30) including illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Whipp, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Loader. (open access)

Cotton-Loader.

Patent for “improvements in apparatus for loading cotton bales (either gin or compress) onto box cars, especially with a view of utilizing the head room or space usually left unoccupied between the roof of the car and the bales stacked on the floor in the prevailing practice of loading cars” (lines 36-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Newell, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drive for Motor-Vehicles (open access)

Drive for Motor-Vehicles

Patent for the drives of motor vehicles, which provides the means to the front wheels can be driven by a motor without the interfering with the action of the steering wheel.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Woods, Arthur M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for an invention that improves mote boards for cotton gins by causing the "impurities and dust thrown off by the centrifugal action of the brush to be conducted away by a dust passage" (lines 19-22).
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Wooldridge, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History