Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (open access)

Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings

Patent for an improved apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (relates to molding devices for curing tire casings) which is easily and quickly set up and knocked down, holds casings safely in position while being cured, and highly efficient in curing tire casings.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Bongio, Philip P. & Stephenson Elonzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cash-Registers. (open access)

Attachment for Cash-Registers.

Patent for an attachment for cash registers which makes it impossible to remove paper to wrap a customer's purchase before the cash register has been opened, for the purpose of reducing "losses due to forgetfulness or dishonesty of clerks making sales" (lines 9-11), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: White, Robert N., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bale-Forming-Compress (open access)

Automatic Bale-Forming-Compress

Patent for the automation of compression and creation of hay bales.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Control for Gas Water-Heaters. (open access)

Automatic Control for Gas Water-Heaters.

Patent for improvements to "a gas control for instantaneous gas water heaters" (lines 9-10), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Hamilton, Paul H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery. (open access)

Battery.

Patent for an improvement to batteries, particularly pertaining to their electrochemical components, including an illustration and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Crowley, Richard Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake-Band Clencher (open access)

Brake-Band Clencher

Patent for improvements in brake-band clenchers. It is intended to "provide an improved Ford brake band clencher adapted for holding the brake bands in place while the transmission case is being replaced" (lines 14-18).
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: McCaffrey, Harry J. & Roberge, Edgar, J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cable Head (open access)

Cable Head

Patent for a connector in an early aeroplane (airplane) for the turnbuckle and ropes.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Dickson, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil. (open access)

Cooking Utensil.

Patent for cooking utensil designed for roasting coffee, popping corn, roasting meat, and other food by hand over a fire or flame by rotating. The device is made of metal and mesh, turns by cranking, and the length of the shaft is adjustable for stability.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Bogue, Robert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cranking Device (open access)

Cranking Device

Patent for cranking device to start internal combustion engines and designed specifically for automobiles.
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivation of Soil. (open access)

Cultivation of Soil.

Patent for improvements in soil cultivation, relating "to conserving and preserving moisture in the soil for growing vegetation" (lines 8-10), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diving-Armor. (open access)

Diving-Armor.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Diving-Armor" (lines 5-6) relating to protection from high pressure, enabling arm and hand movements, an outside air supply, and an oxygen tank. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Long, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit (open access)

Drill-Bit

Patent for Drill-Bit that is especially designed for purpose of drilling through rock, or other hard formations and is also adapted for use in drilling through softer formation, such as shell.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Culmore, March J. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dubbing-Machine. (open access)

Dubbing-Machine.

Patent for improvements to the dubbing-machines with illustrations. Specifically, this improvement is aimed at "dressing ship timber" (line 15) in an effort to make the process easier and more efficient.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Cobb, Dan L. & Moore, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine. (open access)

Engine.

Patent for improvements in engines including governors which have "inertia bars or governing weights" (lines 12-13) including illustrations. In this improvement, the "inertia bars constitute parts of the counterweight" which "counterbalance engine cranks" (lines 14-16).
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Pratt, Clarence E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Dispensing Apparatus (open access)

Fluid Dispensing Apparatus

Patent for a fluid dispensing apparatus meant to improve the dispensation of oil and similar liquids from appropriate faucets.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Kincaid, C. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Chicken or Poultry Coop. (open access)

Folding Chicken or Poultry Coop.

Patent for a folding chicken coop with improvements due to side and end pieces not needing to be disassembled before folding, including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Upton, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Rod Coupling (open access)

Fuel Rod Coupling

Patent for a new type of fuel rod coupling, or "sucker rod," meant to increase the durability of pipes and rods used in drilling operations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Sheldon, W. J. & Allen, C. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game-Retaining Garment (open access)

Game-Retaining Garment

Patent for a garment with detachable areas that allows for the carrying and quick loading of ammunition when hunting game, and is more sanitary and durable than other options.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Cox, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Compress (open access)

Gin Compress

Patent for improvements upon the cotton gin-compress which includes driven screws with gearing to make the compress "more effective than that heretofore employed"(lines 10-11) machinery.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Dunlap, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grease Dispensing Pump (open access)

Grease Dispensing Pump

Patent for improvements upon "grease-dispensing pumps"(line 7) which removes old grease and dispenses "mobile grease"(line 13) easily to machinery.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Head or Tail Light for Automobiles. (open access)

Head or Tail Light for Automobiles.

Patent for head or tail light for automobiles with adaptations of optical signaling and lighting devices used to make the vehicle and its intended change of drive direction and other traffic signals visible at night. This design also includes indicia, or specific distinguishing marks noting right and left turns.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Heartsill, Isaac Newton.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Clutch and Traction Equalizer. (open access)

Hydraulic Clutch and Traction Equalizer.

Patent for hydraulic clutches and traction equalizers. A "device for automobiles or other mother driven vehicles designed to be used in the place of the mechanism commonly known as the differential."
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Weston, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for improvements for internal combustion engines. Improvements include a more compact design, easier to access for repairs, and increased durability and efficiency.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Ward, John Price
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lemon and Lime Squeezer (open access)

Lemon and Lime Squeezer

Patent for an improved lemon and lime squeezer that can divide the lemon and lime into two halves and squeeze the halves in succession, or one half be left un-squeezed.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Bolton, Jack R.; Williams, John D. & Struve, Felix L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History