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Cotton Ball Harvester
Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Monk, R. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.
Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
McFarland, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Front Rigging for Riding-Saddles.
Patent for a rigging that is especially adapted for a swell fork tree, including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Graves, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine.
Patent for a well-drilling machine with "novel and improved means for manipulating and actuating the drill cable" (lines 11-12), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Number-Displaying Device.
Patent for illuminated signs which illuminate number displaying devices for vehicles. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Jenner, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Rotating a Locomotive-Headlight.
Patent for a "manually operated mechanism that will enable a locomotive engineer to rock the headlight about a pivotal access without leaving his cab" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Teter, William E. & Gray, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a portable device that can be hung on a door knob and sound an alarm when the knob is turned, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Dick, Archie P., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs
Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tank-Bottom Holder.
Patent for a tank bottom holder that allows a tank bottom to be "securely and accurately maintained in proper cooperative relation to the edge turning tool and readily manipulated in the required manner" (lines 13-17). That tank bottom holder can be adjusted to fit a variety of tank bottom sizes, and the patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Smith, Walter O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Attachment for Ice-Tongs.
Patent for a device designed so that "the weight of the ice may be determined while the ice is engaged by the tongs" (lines 12-14). The weighing device can be safely attached to the tongs, and the patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Henderson, Douglas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil-Pulverizer.
Patent for a soil-pulverizer with an efficient, revolving drum. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Briles, James Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Can Fastener for Ice Plants.
Patent for an ice-can fastener that can be easily opened and closed, allowing water to freeze quickly in the can. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Drake, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Device
Patent for Lubricating Device and it uses.
Date:
August 12, 1914
Creator:
Clayton, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a chain wrench "in which both of the jaws are similar and interchangeable and provided with additional sets of teeth whereby the life of the jaws is increased" (lines 12-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Hall, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Involuting Drawing Instrument
Patent for drawing instrument intended for drawing involuting curves. Includes illustration and instructions.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
McCaskill, Oscar E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toggle and Clip Combination.
Patent for improvement in toggle and clip combinations, specifically simplicity and economy in construction, convenience, and efficiency in use.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Schoellkopf, Jacob Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mowing Machine
Patent for various refinements in mowing machines.
Date:
August 25, 1914
Creator:
Caruthers, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a device for mounting for rotary cutting disks. It will be a safer way to work with well drilling operations
Date:
August 25, 1914
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud Guard.
Patent for an attachable mud guard for any vehicle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1914
Creator:
Johnson, Tom L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Driving Corrugated Fasteners.
Patent for a tool with "a magazine adapted to feed corrugated fasteners to a driving plunge" (lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1914
Creator:
Thompson, Carl S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a mechanism to lock a nut in place on a bolt that also automatically releases when a wrench is applied to turn the nut.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Edwards, Whitfield H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Building and Repairing Wire Fences
Patent for a wire fence building and repair tool that includes "features of a wire stretcher, staple puller, hammer, and a crowbar" (lines 15-16) and can "secure together the two extremities of a broken fence wire so that the same may be tied or intertwisted." (lines 18-20)
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Bingham, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar.
Patent for improving combined horse collars and hames. Mean to be more efficient in allowing the hames to be attached to a pnematic pad for faster removal.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Pate, Henry Doss
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Propelled Truck.
Patent for a self-propelled truck that has free-turning movement, independent of the truck frame, and has a body that "may be low down and straight from end to end" (lines 29-30). This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Hoag, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History