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Bed.
Patent for a bed, specifically the joints of a bedframe. The side rails for a bedframe are joined by tapered connectors.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Hellweg, Rudolph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coating Apparatus and Mathod.
Patent for a new apparatus into which long objects such as pipes can be placed, dipped into coating material, and spun so that objects are coated evenly.
Date:
August 24, 1920
Creator:
Watrous, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed
Patent for a hospital bed. Provide a bed with separate adjustment support for the sick or people with a disability.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Wallace, John. M
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane-Kite.
Patent for a new aeroplane-kite which can be "readily dismantled and folded for shipping and easily assembled and placed in position for flying without the use of numerous fastenings and detachable parts, thereby making for simplicity and practicability" (lines 12-17). Also includes wind tunnels and a fuselage frame which is so easily assembled that a child can do it.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
McLaughlin, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom.
Patent for a broom which allows the user to easily replace the broom straw or fiber with new straw or fiber when it is worn out. The intention is to decrease the cost of brooms while still producing "a strong and relatively durable broom structure" (lines 18-19).
Date:
November 2, 1920
Creator:
Taylor, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Construction.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in building construction" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Laughlin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Cage.
Patent for a new and improved design of bee cages that facilitates the feeding of bees during transportation and provides "the proper ventilation of the air through the cage to prevent the bees from smothering" (lines 17-19), including illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Ault, Eugene B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supply-Valve Attachment
Patent for a valve add on for a carburetor in order to control the air flow.
Date:
January 24, 1918
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Monroe C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Radiator
Patent for automobile radiator with protective members for the water-containing chambers.
Date:
November 30, 1920
Creator:
Herold, Harry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combustion Apparatus
Patent for a combustion apparatus that will maximize the heat produced with any given amount of fuel.
Date:
December 14, 1920
Creator:
Anderson, Robert James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Out Boot
Patent for a blow-out boot which would prevent the usual particulate from being able to enter the inner tire after a blow-out.
Date:
January 4, 1921
Creator:
Barnes, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack
Patent for Clothes Rack. This helps dry clothes indoors when the weather is bad outside.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Wells, Lillie Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Waterproofing Fabrics, Leather, and the like
Patent for improvements in composition for waterproofing fabrics, leather, and the like including ingredients, proportions and manner of compounding. When applied this composition renders fabric waterproof, with a finished appearance, and dries quickly.
Date:
October 29, 1919
Creator:
McIntosh, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Turntable
Patent for “a turn table of simple and durable structure adapted to be placed in the floor of a small garage or at other points, and which will automatically operate when an automobile is run upon the same to effect the complete turning of the automobile machine in order that the machine may enter the garage while traveling a forward direction and leave the garage in a similar manner” (lines 17-25). Includes illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1921
Creator:
Sanders, Edwin J. & Morrison, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener.
Patent for new and useful improvements for can openers. The principal purpose is to provide means for opening round cans of different sizes and also square cans.
Date:
November 16, 1920
Creator:
Adels, Rebecca Valencia.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tire Mold
Patent for a tire mold that improves the viability of a tire mold due to the adjustable levers used during the tire curing process.
Date:
December 7, 1920
Creator:
Hibbs, Cassell D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box Car Door Fastener
Patent for a box door fastener used for railway box car doors. For use in sliding door style entrances, and does not require the alteration of doors once installed. Doors may also be fastened in place while also allowing to be in a slightly open position for ventilation of the interior.
Date:
January 21, 1921
Creator:
Wood, James Gillam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic-Cut-Off
Patent for an automatic cut-off part for a steam inlet pipe.
Date:
March 1, 1921
Creator:
La Bauve, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Device
Patent for a cleaning tool that attaches to the windshields of automobile windows to clean snow, rain, and dust. It is operated from the interior of the car and can be easily attached and removed. Includes illustrations.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Rivers, Charles A. & Stuart, Francis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane-Tail.
Patent for improvements to the tail of aeroplanes. This invention is to be used to help control the flight of planes or heavy projectiles, and would not have effects on the equilibrium or be difficult to use.
Date:
January 18, 1921
Creator:
Joseph, M. Krowka
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery
Patent for an improvement on batteries. Meant to increase insulation and plate stability inside the battery.
Date:
May 15, 1918
Creator:
Pipkin, Maurice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap that allows an animal, most suitably animals of the rodent species, to enter a rectangular box from any of its four sides through a gate formed of downwardly inclined wires pivoted above each of said openings inside of the box. When an animal enters the trap, they are unable to leave because of the downwardly bent ends of transverse bars secured to the said inclined wires.
Date:
November 2, 1920
Creator:
Smith, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump.
Patent for a new and improved air pump capable of releasing air from the cylindrical casing in one motion. The updated design will also eliminate any lubricating oil from leaking into a tire.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Lawley, Ira
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stopping Mechanism.
Patent for an affordable and easily operable mechanical train stopper designed to be installed directly on a locomotive.
Date:
August 10, 1920
Creator:
Evans, Alva A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History