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Boll-Weevil Exterminator
Patent for an air suctioning instrument that exterminates boll-weevil and other insects that infest cotton crops. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Goar, Robert Keith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs
Patent for new and useful improvements in attachments for Sawmill-Dogs. This invention relates to sawmill dogs, and has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient device for retaining the actuating lever of a lever mechanism in adjusted position.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Lynch, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Table and Ironing-Board
Patent for improvements in convertible tables and ironing boards. Where a freestanding table can be converted readily into an ironing board.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Wasson, Lawson C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silo.
Patent for a reinforced concrete silo, including specifications and illustrations.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Abbett, Edgar J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for improvements on money-changing machines to include multiple coin holding tubes and require the user to push only one key lever for change.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint designed to prevent "longitudinal and lateral movements of the rails" (lines 14-15) as well as creeping by means of a new form of fish plate.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Winter, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch and Transmission Device.
Patent for a clutch and transmission device for automobiles that "is simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, and which is thoroughly practical, reliable and efficient in use." (lines 31-33), including illustrations.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Hubbard, Adra M. & Hubbard, Oscar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Brake-Shoe
Patent for a locomotive brake shoe that is "capable of being economically manufactured in a small foundry without the installation of special and elaborate machinery, whereby they may be produced in various repair shops local to different railroad centers" (lines 15-20), including illustrations.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Christensen, Jacob V. C. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Box.
Patent for an invention relating to detachable flanges found in locomotive driving boxes. Benefits and objectives are explained and illustrations are included.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Hazelwood, William A. & Whiteside, J. Aldo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoothing-Drag.
Patent for useful improvements to smoothing-drags which are "designed for the purpose of smoothing roads".
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Parker, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Cord Shoe
Patent for a water shoe which is made of a woven mesh-work portion made of braided threads of rectangular cross section.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Tynes, Lucius M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for a crate that may be sealed both when erected and when folded by a common fastening member.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Janes, Robert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pecan-Cracker.
Patent for a nut cracker designed especially with pecans in mind. It crushes the pecan shell without damaging the kernel inside.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Disk Drill
Patent for rotary disk drills with an illustration included. This drill is meant to be "efficient and strong and so arranged as to be inexpensive of manufacture and easily kept in serviceable condition." (lines 18-23)
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Mechanism.
Patent for a "simple mechanism for use in connection with a prime mover of any of the well known types using as a motive agent steam, oil, gas, electricity, etc." (lines 13-16). The mechanism is meant to increase efficiency by reducing the number of its components.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Dominguez, Salvador
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cotton-Threshing Machine.
Patent for a cotton threshing machine with wheels designed to be constructed in the cotton field and easily moved to different parts of the field.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History