Air-Feed for Motors. (open access)

Air-Feed for Motors.

Patent for air-feed invention that aims to supply moist air to automobile engines. Illustrations included.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Reid, Samuel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for improvements in animal traps, in particular mouse and rat traps. Illustrations included.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Stockburger, Charles. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ceiling-Plate. (open access)

Ceiling-Plate.

Patent for improvements to ceiling plates that allow a ceiling plate through which a pipe passes to remain securely attached to the ceiling (or other surface) even while the pipe expands or contracts.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Donnelly, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Device for Wells. (open access)

Cleaning Device for Wells.

Patent for a device for cleaning wells. Particularly for washing out of the well screen after it has been set in the bore.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Carden, David A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picking Needle (open access)

Cotton Picking Needle

Patent for a cotton picking needle that relates to machines for picking cotton. More particularly to a novel form of picking needle especially designed for use in connection with a picking machine of that type shown for example.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Billie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Burners (open access)

Improvements in Burners

Patent for improvements for burners. It is related explicitly to hydrocarbon burners. Its purpose is to keep the oil and steam separate as they leave the burner by keeping them in two separate streams.
Date: June 19, 1918
Creator: Trahan, Clair A
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Cotton. (open access)

Process of Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Cotton.

Patent for improvements to the processes of ginning, cleaning, and bleaching cotton, and "particularly to stripping the lint cotton from the seed and for treating cotton with an air treatment after it leaves the saws" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Radius-Rod. (open access)

Radius-Rod.

Patent for radius rod which will hold more effectively the front axle in alignment for steering purposes. This rod will not cause damage to the crank case, motor, or other connecting parts.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Harpst, Frederick E.
System: The Portal to Texas History