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Salad Dressing
Patent for improving salad dressing. This salad dressing has high quality ingredients to go with any salad.
Date:
November 20, 1923
Creator:
Scholl, William H. & Scholl, Barney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupler.
Patent for car coupler heads. This object has coupler heads that, when set in position, automatically lock.
Date:
September 11, 1923
Creator:
Tucker, Roger V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Pulp Thickener.
Patent for a machine used in the wet milling process. It allows proportionate distribution of liquids to aide during the thickening process.
Date:
April 17, 1923
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Placing Machine.
Patent for improvements in sheet-placing machines for pushing and pulling devices to their correct orientation of oil tanks (lines 10-13) roof construction without the possibility of injury to mechanics.
Date:
March 13, 1923
Creator:
Brock, Verita Belle
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for tools used for construction, plumbing, machinery, home renovations, and many more.
Date:
February 27, 1923
Creator:
Edwards, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Bricks
Patent for an improvement in the manufacturing of bricks, using the waste products of a coal burning furnace and other cheap ingredients.
Date:
December 22, 1922
Creator:
North, Clarance Lupfer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door
Patent is for car door and support. It goes on to explain that the car door and support were created to serve as a means of forming an efficient rain-proof closure when the door is moved into closed position. Another object is to provide sufficient means for slide-able support for the door and locking mechanisms.
Date:
March 27, 1915
Creator:
Minton, S. F. & McClellen, R. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Break-Out Pin.
Patent for a modified break-out pin on an oil derrick which makes it easier to release a wrench for unscrewing pipes when done, but still holds the wrench in place while in use.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Headrick, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker.
Patent for a high-yield cotton picker that removes cotton from the bolls without damaging the plants.
Date:
April 15, 1919
Creator:
Johnson, Frank Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Control for Gas Water-Heaters.
Patent for improvements to "a gas control for instantaneous gas water heaters" (lines 9-10), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
June 17, 1919
Creator:
Hamilton, Paul H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Press.
Patent for a bale forming press to form bales of hay and automatically secure "baling wires around the bale as formed" (lines 13-14). It automatically stops the feeder when "the bale is being tied" (lines 19-20) and winds and automatically unwinds and winds the wire.
Date:
February 26, 1918
Creator:
Dudley, Andrew T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Bed-Rack.
Patent for a bed rack (bed roll) located at the rear of a car so that once the car cushions have been placed to form a mattress, the bed roll can be unwound to stretch and cover the cushions providing bedding and covering.
Date:
December 23, 1919
Creator:
Turner, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Projectile
Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date:
September 25, 1918
Creator:
Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Holder.
Patent for an ink bottle holder that allows for sturdy tilting and prevents ink from spilling.
Date:
April 27, 1920
Creator:
Smith, Edwin Ruthven
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buttonless Neckband.
Patent for a buttonless neckband eliminates collar buttons "which would have a tendency to discolor the neck of the wearer" (lines 21-22).
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Narmore, Missouri A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Preparing and Baling Machinery
Patent for a machine that prepares cotton and bales cotton into bales
Date:
March 9, 1914
Creator:
Brown, George Raymond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Controlling Mechanism for Windmills.
Patent for the operation of a windmill pump that may be automatically controlled so that a constant supply of water will be maintained in the storage tank.
Date:
June 18, 1918
Creator:
Bradford, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine
Patent for a cotton "wheeled cultivator" (line 14-15) attachment which allows users to make adjustments to the cultivator blades, including illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1920
Creator:
Sims, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Concrete Form.
Patent for a circular concrete form. The form is adjustable and allows nesting for storage and transport.
Date:
October 17, 1922
Creator:
Harris, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blow-out Patch.
Patent, including illustrations, for tire or shoe blow-out patch that protects the inner tube of the tire and keeps the patch from sliding. Also notes the item can be constructed from "old fabrics from worn shoes or tires" to keep manufacturing and sales costs low (page 1, lines 30-31).
Date:
March 16, 1920
Creator:
Russell, Charles A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Linter
Patent for a new Cotton-Seed Linter (relates to a new and useful form of cotton seed linter) which operates efficiently in and about oil mills or other places where cotton seed is reduced to commercial products.
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Voorhies, Felix E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for improvements in churns, "specifically a churn disclosed in Patent No. 1268766, L. M. Payne, R. A. Thompson and L. P. Morris, June 4, 1918."
Date:
March 9, 1919
Creator:
Wilson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile.
Patent for an automobile with a mechanism which may be extended to form a tent bed, or folded into a small compass. The folding bed of the automobile may be utilized to storm camp equipment when not used as a bed.
Date:
January 4, 1921
Creator:
Mackey, Franklin Orville
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Culvert.
Patent for a culvert which is to be used for sewers or other underground conveyers. Its is to be composed of varying materials that can be easily shipped and jointed together to form the sewer or other underground conveyer.
Date:
March 23, 1920
Creator:
Charliss, Charles F.J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History