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Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Morrow, James Morton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Heating and Applying Coating Material
Patent for a device for heating and applying coating materials, and more particularly for applying asphalt to surfaces, which it is desirable to coat therewith.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Seale, Elbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for a burner constructed to admit a force of steam or air is sent through the nozzle with assigning to the fuel in fuel reservoir. This invention is used to burn the heavy crude oil.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Nicholson, John
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
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
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
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
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
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
Support.
Patent for improvements in supports for cots or mosquito nettings with an objective to present a novel and convenient device that is applied in operative positions.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Pewther, Judson C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a swing, particularly for children, that provides a foot rest that rises from the floor when a person sits down and includes a back that can be reclined. The particular design is also cheaper and easier to build.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Shaw, John Copeland Miller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill
Patent for well drill that enables its upper end to be struck without disengaging the cable with an objective to provide simple, inexpensive, and convenient use.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Walker, Merit Benjamin
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
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a new bale tie made from metal, with "integral interlocking terminal portions" (lines 25-26), including instructions and illustration. The bale tie is "strong in character, constructed at small cost, of a minimum number of parts, and capable of easy and expeditious manipulation" (lines 18-21).
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
O'Riordan, John Eldridge
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
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
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
Rice Harvester
Patent for an improved rice grain harvester. This harvester gather only grain, not straw or stalks, in order to prevent the grain from gathering dampness or moisture over long periods of time.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Motte, James N. & Katz, Adam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission mechanism
Patent for transmission mechanism of which minimum number of parts are working with uniform force and with multiplied power and without decreasing the strength and durability.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Martinez, Norberto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weight-Motor.
Patent for invention of a machine in which reciprocating motion is converted in to rotary motion with more power. In this invention maximum propelling force is obtained without excessive energy.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Martinez, Norberto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Lime.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Walsh, Patrick A. & Walsh, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton choppers. A stronger, more durable, efficient, ease of operation, chopper.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Penn, Joseph R.
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