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Cotton Ball Harvester (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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 (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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 (open access)

Lubricating Device

Patent for Lubricating Device and it uses.
Date: August 12, 1914
Creator: Clayton, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

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 (open access)

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. (open access)

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 (open access)

Mowing Machine

Patent for various refinements in mowing machines.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Caruthers, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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 (open access)

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 (open access)

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. (open access)

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. (open access)

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