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Aeroplane.
Patent for improved propulsion for airplanes involving propellors in the front and rear of the plane. This aids in regulating air currents to stabilize flight, landing and speed. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Campbell, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for improvements in animal traps, in particular mouse and rat traps. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 19, 1917
Creator:
Stockburger, Charles. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for bailing press including improvements in the compressor, feeder, and plunger-actuating mechanisms.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
North, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for clothes pin with illustration attached. This pin was created to allow ease shifting of clothes hanging from the clothe line. Additionally the clothes pin does not pinch the clothes it holds in place.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
McKinney, Arthur C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including "an attachment for a gin feeder to separate cotton from the burs during the gin operation...especially adapted for use upon cotton containing an excess amount of bolls" (lines 13-16). The improvements include an air suction device to remove cotton from the burs before it enters the gin.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Huntsman, Edward L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Directions for Sampling Coal for Shipment or Delivery
Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines with instructions for coal sampling for shipment. As stated in the introduction, "this paper deals with the sampling of coal after it has been mined" (p. 5). This paper includes illustrations.
Date:
June 1917
Creator:
Pope, George S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Door Fastener
Patent is for door locking device for fasteners that can be carried around in a pocket. It is an improvement on models in circulation.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Price, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Conduit.
Patent for flexible conduits that posses maximum strength, resilience, and flexibility that extend the life of dredge sleeves, couplings and other capacities.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Charles A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Device
Patent for flushing devices have better toilet seats and providing simple flushing system.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Osborn, Claud A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop
Patent for a new more durable folding coop that folds up quickly and easily, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Martin, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace
Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Bone, David R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Meter Attachment.
Patent for a gas meter attachment that work with sliding valves to operate the mechanism that measures the gas allowed to pass through the meter.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Morris, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Meter-Valve Protector
Patent for an attachment for gas or fluid meters that uses the sliding valve principle. Improvments upon valve covers so that they are more firmly attached.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Emerson, Bennett
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate or Door Closing Device
Patent for "improvements in closing devices for doors, gates, and the like" (lines 12-13) using a spring connected to the door and frame, including illustrations.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Hawley, Royal A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Hoisting Apparatus
Patent for gearing that hoists items in construction. This one is designed more specifically with the drilling of wells in mind, but it can be used in other activities as well. The apparatus can run at varying speeds, all controlled by a single person who does not have to leave the controls to adjust said speed.
Date:
June 5, 1917
Creator:
Black, Lee Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Manure-Scraper.
Patent for a handheld scraper with a handle added at a 45-degree angle and rivets to secure the shank.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Heller, Louis & Neese, Elo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Rack
Patent for harness-rack improvements combining harness suspending means and rein holder.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Weddle, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press
Patent for hay press has better aims to provide a novel and improved press for baling hay and other similar material.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Hilton, Ben F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harrow Structure
Patent for improvement in harrow structure allowing for them to be attached to an ordinary cultivator in lien of cultivating shovels.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
McIntyre, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Generating and Storing Power.
Patent for a wind-driven power generator utilizing a wind mill style construction.
Date:
June 8, 1917
Creator:
Smithey, Walter D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History