Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for an improvement on a crude oil burner that can adapt to various grades of crude oil as well as providing intense heat to various sizes of boilers.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Runyan, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combustion-Gas and Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Combustion-Gas and Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a burner which can be used with either gas or oil, or both at once.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Runyan, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising Liquids from Deep Wells. (open access)

Apparatus for Raising Liquids from Deep Wells.

Patent for improvements for raising liquids from deep wells. "It has a particular application to the raising of fused sulfur from the well in the liquid state" (lines 14-16).
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Hebert, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material. (open access)

Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material.

Patent for an improved tire patch material combination and production process, which results in less water absorption and better adhesion to the tire.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Duffy, Clarence O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Holding Implement. (open access)

Tool-Holding Implement.

Patent for a holding device specifically for hoe tools while being sharpened.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Stoke, Josiah W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Can Cover (open access)

Milk-Can Cover

Patent for a milk can cover that locks in place toprevent milk from spilling out of the can, with illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Wisegarver, Marion Obidah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prepay Time-Controlled-Service Apparatus. (open access)

Prepay Time-Controlled-Service Apparatus.

Patent for an improvement in prepay time controlled service apparatus that uses the solenoid and armature as a stopping means for the time mechanism.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Thompson, William H. & Thompson, J. D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Cover-Pad for Mattresses. (open access)

Sanitary Cover-Pad for Mattresses.

Patent for an improvement in sanitary pad covers for mattresses that is washable and contains pocket flaps underneath that can hold a sheet of waterproof material to protect the mattress beneath.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Callahan, John William & Callahan, Maud B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine Fan Belt Guard. (open access)

Engine Fan Belt Guard.

Patent for Engine Fan Belt Guards. This device helps the fan shift from slipping off mother vehicle engines.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Brackett, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Tire-Filler With a Flexible Metal Cable in the Center. (open access)

Rubber Tire-Filler With a Flexible Metal Cable in the Center.

Patent for "an improved rubber tire filler which is reinforced by a metal cable or nonstretchable strand or strands to prevent the fillers from slipping while permitting of sufficient flexibility to allow the tire casing to be readily engaged over the filler" (lines 10-15)
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Needham, Moses W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separator for Storage-Battery Plants (open access)

Separator for Storage-Battery Plants

Patent for a device that allows liquid in a storage battery to flow from one plate to another.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Luthy, Joseph O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roasting-Pan. (open access)

Roasting-Pan.

Patent for a self basting roasting pan. The pan includes an impaling tube upon which the roast is impaled and includes tubing to allow juices of the meat being cooked to be transferred upwardly and flow down over the meat.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Holloway, Sarah Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Cap. (open access)

Stovepipe-Cap.

Patent for a stove pipe cap that attaches to the top of a chimney and prevents "birds from building their nests in the smoke stack or pipe, which causes chimney fires" (lines 21-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Fojtik, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Cutter (open access)

Pipe-Cutter

Patent for improved pipe cutters that indicate when a pipe has been completely severed inside of a well
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Wright, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drag (open access)

Drag

Patent for a ground drag for "grading and removing refuse from the surface of the soil" (lines 10-12) that can be steered and that can gather and dispose of the dirt it levels off, including illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Nelson, Charley E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cylindrical Structure (open access)

Cylindrical Structure

Patent for improvements for hollow structures of cylindrical shape that provides "for formation of such a structure of lumber and metal materials of standard dimensions and shapes that ordinarily can be obtained from commercial stocks, so that the minimum amount of shop work on materials will be required." (lines 18-22)
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Pearson, Terrell Brooks
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for treating soil for agricultural purposes. This invention destroys the ridges used for planting and growing cotton and also cultivating the soil in the vicinity of the ridges.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Kriel, John J. & Kriel, Otto J.
System: The Portal to Texas History