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Coaster-Brake.
Patent for a coaster brake featuring an improved positive drive and braking.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills.
Patent for improvement in attachments for windmills to “convert rotary motion of the wheel shaft into reciprocating motion for actuating the pitman of the sucker rod.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Burleson, Lemual R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber and Mop
Patent for a combined mop and scrubber. The invention consists of a brush, mop, wringer, and water receptacle.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Shaw, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Advertising Sign
Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book-Cover.
Patent for adjustable book covers. More protection with use of thicker paper, with adjustable feature is highly important as is also the slit and tongue.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walraven, Albert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack.
Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walling, Carl H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle
Patent for a vehicle that can carry heavy loads and can turn around in a small space and can turn easily on a crooked road.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Menning, Otto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Headlight
Patent for a locomotive headlight in which its illuminating lights are placed directly ahead by a means of better support.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Moody, Calvin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning Pipe-Lines
Patent for a machine for cleaning pipe-lines. The machine uses the pipeline as a track, traveling along the track cleaning the pipeline.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Kinzbach, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor
Patent for improvements to tractors which are designed with the driver's seat positioned on the trailing unit. The improvements allow for tools to be attached in such a way cultivating may be done near fences and other common obstructions.
Date:
July 1, 1918
Creator:
Chenoweth, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Tread
Patent for improved wheel treads specifically for assisting motorists trapped in mud, sand, or the like.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Wheat, Levi M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Appliance.
Patent for a surgical appliance, "adapted for the treatment of rectal and uterine troubles".
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Woodward, Lewis Ethridge
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Clip Tool.
Patent for "putting back spring or axle clips where the clip is slightly bent and difficult to replace by hand, the tool serving as a convenient means for bending and forcing the clip in place without injuring the threads thereon" (lines 19-23), with illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Stark, Gara Roscoe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Aluminum Chlorid
Patent for the manufacture of aluminum chlorid and the method of making aluminum chlorid to produce vapors that are subsequently condensed in any suitable manner. This patent is important because it is advantageous to work with a producer of gas made at as high a temperature. This is because of the greater amount of sensible heat it carries forward for use in the reaction.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
King, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hat-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in hat-fasteners in which the “fastener can be adjustable to hats of different sizes and shapes, …., for securing the hat upon the head.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Schmidt, Harel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for a fabric engaging element under the top of the washing machine.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Kincaid, Willis Menefee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator and Conveyer for Concrete-Mixers.
Patent for improvements in elevators and conveyers for concrete-mixers “whereby the mixed concrete can be fed to the wall mold at different elevations, the elevator being extended and the conveyer raised for constructing the successive stories of the building.” (Lines 17-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Miller, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sealing Device.
Patent for improvements in the design of devices used for sealing car doors, including illustrations and a description. The device is designed in such a way that the seal may not be removed in the locked position without breaking the door, thus preventing theft.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Fox, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in riding-cultivators in which the cultivator is “capable of easy adjustment so that each part may be placed independently of other parts in position for most thorough service” (Lines 15-18). Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Kennemer, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Crank
Patent for a new Safety-Crank for starting auto vehicle engines, which is capable of effectively imparting the necessary forward movement to an engine for starting, but having means conjoined with it, whereby it will be automatically released from positive engagement with the starting shaft on any retrograde movement of the engine.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Farley, Bert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins
Patent for mote boards for cotton gins that throw off bolls, leaf, trash, dust, along with other foreign material
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Wooldridge, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter and Fertilizer-Distributer
Patent for Planter and Fertilizer Distributer that has a mechanism for receiving the seed and fertilizer and distributing the same
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Norvell, William Setliff
System:
The Portal to Texas History