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Parcel Carrier Guard for Bicycles
Patent for improved Parcel-Carrier Guard for bicycles. Specifically the patent helps to prevent contact with the parcel carrier guard and the front wheel.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Apple, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Rail Brace.
Patent for a new railway-rail brace designed "particularly to be used on curves of rail-way tracks, and which ties the rails as to prevent spreading of said rails" (lines 13-16), including illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Barnes, Ned Eastman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding-Door Mechanism.
Patent for a new sliding door mechanism that allows for doors to be opened and shut by a foot-operated pedal without the use of one's hands, including illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Beardon, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic gas-lighter
Patent for automatic gas lighter, designed for igniting the headlights of auto vehicle, the principle object was to attach a simple automatic lighter to any automobile which is cheaper and reliable.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Ben F. Keith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Book.
Patent for a checkbook holder that includes a special binder for check stubs, with instructions and illustration. When a new set of checks and binder are inserted into the holder, the old binder of stubs can be easily removed and saved, for receipt purposes.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Bennett, Paul H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Trap.
Patent for class of steam valve safety traps to prevent the interference of heavy particles with the flow of steam ensuring efficient working of the machine.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Bird, David R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prod-Pole
Patent for care of live stock and particularly the pod poles. This invention is to produce a pod designed to podding the animals when they are loading or unloading for the shipment.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Bishop, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Brooks, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Projecting Apparatus.
Patent for developing projecting apparatuses. This projecting apparatuses invented has continuous operation and manual operation is removed.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Chapman, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish and Rat Trap
Patent for fish and rat trap that can catch bait robbers as well as fish to reduce the nuisance for fishermen. The device contains a sensitive trigger release mechanism that can be activated under water at any point.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Cotton, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Escapement for Watches
Patent for escapement for watches that allows connecting pieces to adjust more easily, this includes fixed jewels, palettes, levers, etc.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
De Long, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for speculum instrument used in treating women's sexual and reproductive health with new plunger mechanism for inserting powdered medicines.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Finley, Hulon Kirk
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety pipe grip
Patent for gripping of tubes and cylinders in the devices that are used for drilling or sinking operations. This invention helps for the movement in one direction.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Gist, Felta B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Cutter.
Patent for tie cutters used to cut railway ties into parts in preparation to discard them from the tracks after their decay.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Harber, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator.
Patent for elevator supporting a locking mechanism to restrict movement in case of a broken cable preventing the elevator car "from dropping to the bottom of the shaft" (lines 16-17).
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Hathhorn, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hen-Nest
Patent for an improved hen nest. This nest prevents hens from roosting when the keeper chooses by the ability to turn the nests from horizontal to vertical.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Hebert, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Line-Apparatus Protector
Patent for electric-line-apparatus protector used to protect telephone and other electrical circuits from damaged caused by electricity. This is a simple and efficient device.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Higgins, Peter K. & Parker, Frederick R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove and Range.
Patent for a compact combination range or stove with "a cabinet for culinary utensils" (lines 12-13). "Compartments are substantially thermally independent of each other" (lines 17-18), due to flue arrangement, reticulated baffle plate and a two-way self locking damper.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Holloway Louis Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper
Patent for stove damper to heat the cabinets evenly and thoroughly, yet allow the cabinets to remain thermally independent of each other.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Holloway, Louis Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for bale-tie buckle to be used to secures bales of cotton specifically. This is used to increase the speed at which cotton can be secured while being ginned and compressed. This buckle can be reused multiple times.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bathing-Machine.
Patent for a standing bathing machine that will wash and scrub the person standing inside it. Illustrations are provided but these are guidelines that should not be restricting but something for the builder to build upon.
Date:
July 25, 1916
Creator:
Howlett, Peyton Leon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mop-Ferrule.
Patent for mop and ferrule to attach the strands to the mop head by providing a simple and inexpensive construction for an efficient and practical use.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Huguley, Carl M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole.
Patent for inventing a trolley pole which is easy to build, comparatively inexpensive and easy to use. This is an improvement for the older version.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Otey. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Support.
Patent for new and useful improvements in stove pipe supports. To hold stove pipe in upright position and prevent it from accidentally becoming disarranged.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Leslie, Alexander C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History