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Lamp Adjusting Pedal Mechanism
Patent for improvements for lamp operating pedals for automobiles.
Date:
September 21, 1915
Creator:
Kitching, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch.
Patent for a switch for electrically operated elevator doors or gates that ensures their proper closing before the car travels through the shaft.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Pitts, Hood & Covert, Frank M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protector for the Crown of Headwear
Patent for a device fitted to the crown of a hat or cap, safeguard the garment from being soiled from repeated use.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Roberts, Jones H. & Rolnick, Gus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger
Patent for an improved post-hole digger/auger with multiple blades that cut in a spiral pattern and has the blades adjust and lock on the base. The blade shanks form a cage and keeps dirt from clogging the blades.
Date:
May 22, 1915
Creator:
Hoover, Orville M. & Ardery, Sarah, J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food and Method of Preparing the Same
Patent for a new method to produce stock feed at a low cost, by "treating finely divided organic matter containing cellulose with certain acids under pressure, thereby freeing the cellulose and other carbohydrates," to make the feed more easily absorbable by animals (lines 13-23).
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Bolting Machine
Patent for new tire-bolting machine with "a unique assemblage of component parts, to enhance the utility of the structure, and the apparatus being improved generally to increase the efficiency thereof." (lines 16-19) , including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
McCullough, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire
Patent for tires for vehicle wheels carcasses built-up with metallic reinforcing inlays which are provided with internal air tubes to improve on use and less expensive to produce.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Varnell, Clyde
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel
Patent for a spring wheel to "provide an improved resilient wheel wherein spring members are interposed between the hub and rim maintaining them in yielding rotation" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Corwin, Lawrence O. & Arnold, Wiley Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Cleaner
Patent for a gin saw cleaner that can clean saws while in rotation.
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Flowers, Malon I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Facing-Blocks
Patent for facing blocks used as a veneer or facing with wood or metal framework. In using "uncemented tongue and groove" joints, the facing blocks allows for adjustment due to settling of the frame and features durable and efficient construction.
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Neimeyer, Frederich George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine Control
Patent for a car part that goes on the engine to help control fuel supply, and to keep engine parts from burning up.
Date:
May 29, 1915
Creator:
Craddock, L. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floor Selector-Switch for Electric Door-Operating Apparatus
Patent for floor selector switch for electric door operating apparatus situated at the floor/landing near the elevator shaft to close and open the elevator gate/door. It also allows the elevator operator to use a switch to operate the elevator gate/door, and also lock the gate/door so it cannot be opened by accident. All said to work quickly and quietly.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Pitts, Hood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-door-operating Apparatus
Patent for an electrically controlled means of automatically "opening and closing the doors of the elevator shaft" without slamming or banging the doors, including illustrations.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Pitts, Hood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fender.
Patent for a device "to be secured to the prow of a ship or vessel and which projects forwardly therefrom for the purpose of protecting the vessel against injury from a collision" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Barton, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Tongs
Patent for ice tongs to assist with lifting ice "and other articles," with a special feature on the device that will display the weight of the item being carried (line 10).
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Henderson, Douglas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reicing Cars.
Patent for an ice storage receptacle and crushing apparatus which supplies the refrigerator cars on a train with fresh ice.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Tobin, Patrick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Attachment For Milk Pails
Patent for a dome lid that attaches to the top of a milk pail with two "tubes" in which to place the hands while milking a cow. The lid serves to protect the fresh milk from germs, dirt, and other contaminants.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Williams, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch Operating Mechanism for Electric Railways.
Patent for a switch-operating mechanism for electric railways that uses a movable display band to control movement through an electrically operated switch. The arrival of the railway car or street car at a point adjacent to the switch automatically throws the switch to automatically shunt the car from one line to another without a motorman or switchman's intervention.
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill.
Patent for improvements to rotary boring drills.
Date:
May 15, 1915
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extensible Neck-Yoke
Patent for a neck yoke which may be lengthened or shortened and has novel means for securing the adjustable sections to prevent slipping, should the main fastening become loose.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Waddell, Gasper Leon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rug-Hanger.
Patent for the improvement of rug-hangers. The invention consists of multiple rollers that facilitate both the mounting and disengagement of rugs or other large flexible articles of merchandise from the hanger.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Griffin, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle-Press
Patent for a saddle press that can be adapted fit to any common cantle to more quickly paste a cover onto it. The saddle may also be moved while the press is in use.
Date:
May 25, 1915
Creator:
Wendorf, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden Implement
Patent for new garden implement that is "a combination of a rake and scraper and which may also be used in the capacity of hoe or allied implement." (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Bozarth, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Fitting Stool.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a shoe fitting stool which "comprises a simple and efficient means of this nature so arranged that the measurements of the foot of a person may be quickly and readily determined." (lines 15-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Reed, Allen Trousdale
System:
The Portal to Texas History