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Valve.
Patent for a safety valve that closes a conduit when a change in pressure occurs that shuts off the supply of fluid (or gas) until the valve is manually reset.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Ruffner, Earl S., of Wichita Falls, Texas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Cycle Internal-Combustion Engine and Method of Operating Engines of this Type.
Patent for a two-cycle type of internal combustion engine to make the engine more effective. This invention can be used on motor vehicles, motor boats, flying machines and the like.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
McKiearnan, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a design of a compact well-drilling machine.
Date:
April 17, 1914
Creator:
Thorniley, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Table Attachment for Beds
Patent for a table attachment for beds. This table serves as a place for medicines, food, writing, or a book rest.
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Thorniley, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for a heating stove that will ensure the combustion of artificial or natural gas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Ziegler, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-Wrench
Patent for an improvement in elevator wrenches. The device is meant to be used with rotary drilling machines for "supporting the drilling the drill pipe and for holding it from rotation during the releasing of the several joins of the pipe when it is necessary to withdraw the drill from the well hole."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Lebus, George Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Burning Stove.
Patent for an improved gas burning stove with a new design to better unite the oxygen in the air and the gas fuel.
Date:
November 10, 1914
Creator:
Ziegler, John C,
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Tongs.
Patent for improvement upon the use of chain tongs. The invention "permits the application of a very strong rotative force" (lines 11-12), "produce rotation of a pipe in either direction" (lines 17-18), and "provides a chain tong which will not crush the pipe..." (lines 22-23).
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
McLeod, Rueben A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Tongs.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in pipe-tongs" (lines 5-6) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 12, 1913
Creator:
Meredith, John De Witt
System:
The Portal to Texas History