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Visual Automatic-Setback Annunicator.
Patent for an indicator dial controlled by magnets to read out a display for an instrument via a lever.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Stephens, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction
Patent for the contemplates the erection of a wall formed of superimposed parallel tiers or slabs spaced apart to give the wall the desired thickness.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Long, Clarence W. & Stephens, Joseph. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Latch Mechanism for Spittoon-Covers.
Patent for an improved latch mechanism for sliding covers on spittoons.
Date:
July 4, 1917
Creator:
Lovece, Nicola
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a vehicle wheel that "embodies a flexible tread and radially arranged springs for absorbing shocks and cushioning the yielding of the parts of said tread." (lines 10-13).
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Lycurgus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for impalement mouse trap that is intended to be manufactured and sold at a low cost.
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Speed, Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Controlling Mechanism for Motor-Vehicles.
Patent for a device that automatically closes the throttle to slow the speed of a motor vehicle when necessary. The device is designed to respond to vehicle load, road surface, and a predetermined speed limit.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Carpenter, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underscoring Attachment for Type-Writers.
Patent for an improvement on an underscoring attachment for type writers that allows the user to use the functions of underscoring, correcting, and cancelling characters as they type, allowing some functions to occur simultaneously, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Aiton, Fred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Still for Distillation of Petroleum
Patent for improvements in still design for distillation of petroleum or its products, providing relief for any suddenly formed vapors and preventing the oil from boiling over.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Gallsworthy, Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracking Mechanism.
Patent for a nut-cracking mechanism that adjusts automatically to the size of nut with a variable cracking stroke.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Russell, Frank K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underwaist.
Patent for an underwaist specifically designed for juveniles that provides for more comfortable supporting straps crossing the back and chest at the shoulders, extending to the leg to clasp the stockings with the purpose of holding them up, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Ida Bassett
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for Producing Fibrous Material from Rice-straw
Patent for a process for producing fibrous material from rice-straw. The process was created to fiberize and use rice straw. Rice straw had little economic value but creating a process for fiberizing it might help to make this resource commercially useful.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Toles, Justin Kay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Upward-Current Separating Process and Device.
Patent for upward-current separation processes and devices to allow for working with changes in conditions and proportions with ease.
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Allen, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasolene-Supply-Tank Attachment.
Patent for a gasoline station attachment that monitors the amount of fuel dispersed, dispensing a specific amount of fuel based on coin deposit, and for locking the fueling station.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Malone, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tent-Stake.
Patent for a tent stake that is used with a metal guy or rope. The purpose of this tent stake is to secure tents under all weather conditions.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Basnett, Augustus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for improvements to a hay press to be manufactured easily and cheaply while maintaining its effectiveness in pressing hay into bales.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Pate, William H. & Rhyne, Arthur M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Drum.
Patent for an invention that "relates to improvements in hoisting drums" (line 15-16). Structure, objective, and illustrations of hoisting drums are included.
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Howard, Henry Fischer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for an invention composed of various tools used to compress bail hay and/or other similar materials. Nature and scope of invention are explained and illustrations are included.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Preston, Cyrus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Half-Car Unloader.
Patent for the improvement of Half-Car Unloaders as it "relates to the handling of material in bulk and has special reference to a device arranged to enable railroad cars such as are sued for hauling coal, ore, and other like material to be unloaded by a single operation." (lines 13-18)
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Scardino, Mariano P. & Scardino, Peter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screening Device.
Patent for a screening device that offers "an improved means for imparting motion to and controlling or varying the motion of the screen to affect a separation of the materials undergoing treatment." (lines 10-13).
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Cole, David
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street and Station Indicator.
Patent for a device that announces names of streets and stations as well as names of business firms or advertising data, including illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Dilley, John W. & Cook, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel.
Patent for a wheel that contains heavy wire spokes, consisting of two sections that are arranged to have their adjacent ends spaced and connected by coil springs to insure resiliency.
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Fuller, Robert Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Hood.
Patent for an "inexpensive to manufacture, and convenient and comfortable in use" (lines 17-18) sleeping hood to be worn while sleeping to prevent snoring.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Bloomfield, Emma D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for Rotary Engine with an illustration attached. Created to "[embody] a novel construction and assemblage of the component elements, and [embody] novel means for reversing the engine." (lines 10-15)
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Martin, Jerry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust-Steam-Actuating Damper-Regulator.
Patent for exhaust-steam-actuating damper-regulator, including instructions and illustrations. This invention improves oil burning equipment for locomotives by "operating the dampers of the air inlet box to automatically close the dampers when the locomotive is standing and to open the dampers when the locomotive is running." (lines 12-16).
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Gilman, Benoist P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History