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Combined Rail Joint and Chair (open access)

Combined Rail Joint and Chair

Patent for a combined rail joint and rail chair. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Newman, Harry J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber And Mop. (open access)

Combined Scrubber And Mop.

Patent for the combination of a scrubber, a mop, and a water receptacle to supply the cleansing liquid to the surface that is being cleaned and it provides a mechanism for wringing the mop.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Lee, Bryant
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer. (open access)

Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer.

Patent for a combined smoke-consumer and vaporizer that increases fuel efficiency in furnaces.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Davis, Othman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights (open access)

Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights

Patent for a combined socket and switch for electric lights that allows different bulbs of a chandelier to be turned on separately.
Date: August 20, 1912
Creator: Bailey, Douglas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Window-Awning And Fire-Protector. (open access)

Combined Window-Awning And Fire-Protector.

Patent for a collapsible window awning.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Guy, Webb W. & Richards, Oliver L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comparative Fuel Values of Gasoline and Denatured Alcohol in Internal-Combustion Engines (open access)

Comparative Fuel Values of Gasoline and Denatured Alcohol in Internal-Combustion Engines

From Introduction: "Under the terms of the act establishing the Bureau of Mines, this bureau was authorized to carry on the work of testing and analyzing fuels which had been conducted by the technologic branch of the United States Geological Survey. Therefore, the first investigations of the liquid mineral fuels logically embraced a careful series of comparative tests of gasoline and denatured alcohol in engines. The report is published by the Bureau of Mines because of the transfer of the fuel-testing investigations to this bureau."
Date: 1912
Creator: Strong, R. M. & Stone, Lauson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compressed-Air Machine. (open access)

Compressed-Air Machine.

Patent for an "an automatically acting compressed air machine where a reciprocating action is desired" (lines 9-11) "which will be automatic and positive in its action, which may be operated with minimum amount of compressed fluid, and which has relatively few parts that might get out of order" (lines 12-18).
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Saurenmann, Jacob Gilmore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compression Means for Fountain-Pens (open access)

Compression Means for Fountain-Pens

Patent for a compressor for fountain pens. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concentrated Animal-Dip (open access)

Concentrated Animal-Dip

Patent for a concentrated insecticide dip for cattle to kill Texas fever ticks made of alkali arsonite, soap, pine tar, water, and ethyl alcohol.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Chapin, Robert M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete Construction on the Livestock Farm (open access)

Concrete Construction on the Livestock Farm

"Concrete is being used on farms to an increasing extent and has been found well-adapted for certain purposes on stock farms. The accompanying paper deals especially with the construction of feeding floors, manure pits and basins, and dipping vats." -- p. 2
Date: 1912
Creator: United States. Bureau of Animal Industry.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connector for Lamps (open access)

Connector for Lamps

Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: McKiel, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Constituents of Coal Soluble in Phenol (open access)

The Constituents of Coal Soluble in Phenol

Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the constituents of coal. As stated in the introduction, "this paper presents some results of an investigation of the nature of the chemical compounds that go to make up the complex material known as coal" (p. 5). This report includes tables and a chart.
Date: 1912
Creator: Frazer, J. C. W. & Hoffman, E. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Control of the Boll Weevil (open access)

The Control of the Boll Weevil

Report about the boll weevil which gives "a brief outline of the methods which have been tested under various conditions and sums up the present available knowledge concerning the subject of control." -- p. 5
Date: 1912
Creator: Hunter, W. D. (Walter David), 1875-1925
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controller Attachment for Levers (open access)

Controller Attachment for Levers

Patent for improvements on controllers for levers
Date: February 6, 1912
Creator: Smith, David C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Controlling System for Motor-Traction Cars. (open access)

Controlling System for Motor-Traction Cars.

Patent for controlling systems for motor traction cars. These controlling systems provide automatic control outside the volition of the motorman.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Mayo, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for the invention of a new conveyor, designed to simplify handling sacked grain.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: King, Marion A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking-Stove (open access)

Cooking-Stove

Patent for a cooking stove that can be easily replaced with a new one if it breaks.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Earnest, Mettie C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that plants seeds in hills of equal distance from one another.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Roy, Henry F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that can plant two rows at a time.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Hooper, Martin T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Parsley, Samuel E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with an attachment for a guided chopper. This cotton chopper allows for the chopping device to engage the soil when the device is driven over various types of soil.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Tedder, Morgan C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved cotton-chopper.
Date: April 23, 1912
Creator: Leubner, Carl W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention consists of chopping blades attached to the rotary shaft. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Carlson, Peet
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator which has adjustable cutters.
Date: June 18, 1912
Creator: Cain, James N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History