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Oil Trap

Description: Patent for improvements to floating oil traps. Floating oil traps are used to catch excess oil floating on top of refinery discharge canals. These improvements include increased flexibility, thus allowing the trap to move with the flow of the water.
Date: November 22, 1921
Creator: Jones, Robert P.
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Motorcycle-Stand.

Description: Patent for a motorcycle stand that can be released manually through a lever near the saddle to lock the stand into place until the operator unlocks it.
Date: July 21, 1921
Creator: Swenson, Carl J.
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Electric-Current Relay

Description: Patent for Electric-Current Relay to allow capability of use with either a direct or alternating current. This is adapted for economical use in constant temperature apparatus. Further, this technology avoids the possibility of "sticking of relay movable contacts".
Date: July 19, 1921
Creator: Lorenz, Charles O.
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Game.

Description: Patent for a "a game of skill, rather than a game of chance" (lines 11-12), albeit with elements of a game of chance, in the style of a carnival game. The game consists of a motorized, revolving model airplane and a circular arrangement of nets (one for each player); the airplane drops candy into the winning player's net.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: Auffurth, Erwin, Jr. & Hjerpe, Erick
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Chuck.

Description: Patent for chucks that secure pipes, preventing movement when being cut or threaded, including illustrations.
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Castanie, William
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[Photograph of Mrs. J. P. Duke, 1921]

Description: Photograph of Mrs. J. P. Duke, a high school teacher in Port Arthur, Texas. She is wearing glasses, a necklace, and a dark dress. Writing on the back of the photo indicate that Mrs. Duke gave this picture to her domestic arts student, Frances Furchner.
Date: 1921
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Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Gates Memorial Library]

Description: Photograph of the Gates Memorial Library Children's Reading Room. There are groups of children sitting at three tables in the room. Each table has a lamp on it. In the background, five children are facing bookshelves. Text below the photograph says "Memorial Library Port Arthur, Texas. Children's Reading Room [-] Shelf Reading and Arrangement Cared for by the Library Science Class."
Date: 1921
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Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Gates Memorial Library]

Description: Photograph of a three unidentified women at Gates Memorial Library. Two women are sitting at a desk and one woman is standing beside them. The wall behind the desk is decorated with prints of paintings and photographs.
Date: 1921
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Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Port Arthur Gas Company]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of Port Arthur Gas Company on west Nineteenth Street and Terminal Road, adjacent to Texas Company Refinery. There is a tank beside a building with smoke stacks rising from it. Text below the photograph says "Port Arthur Gas Co." and "Located - West Port Arthur ... or 19th St." Accompanying material gives additional information about the company.
Date: 1921
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Partner: Port Arthur Public Library

[Old Man Sitting at Desk]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified old man sitting at a desk with a door with an opening behind him. On the left and on the desk are papers. The man is wearing a hat and is named Lee Stanley, as noted on back of photo.
Date: 1921~/1929-12~
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Partner: Edison Museum

Process of Heating Oil-Retorts and Apparatus Therefor.

Description: Patent for "a method of securing even heating of oil retorts and the like throughout their length" and "a new apparatus, particularly intended for the heating and cracking of oils to convert the same into pyrolytic products". The invention may be used for any oil converting retort, but the patent description relates to the production of gasoline.
Date: August 16, 1921
Creator: Alexander, Clive M.
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