Cotton-Boll Picker (open access)

Cotton-Boll Picker

Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Hewitt, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock Attachment (open access)

Clock Attachment

Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.
Date: January 11, 1915
Creator: Moore, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines (open access)

Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines

Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Bell, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for an improved clothes pin made from resilient wire stock and comprised of side by side loops and nipping jaws, including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1915
Creator: Griffin, William Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Reconnaissance in Palo Pinto County, Texas : With Special Reference to Oil and Gas (open access)

A Reconnaissance in Palo Pinto County, Texas : With Special Reference to Oil and Gas

This document reports the presence of oil and gas in Palo Pinto County, Texas, as studied by the United States Geological Survey in the fall of 1914.
Date: September 11, 1915
Creator: Wegemann, Carroll H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Watch Protector (open access)

Watch Protector

Patent for a watch casing that allows the watch face exposed. The protector can be clasped together and hung on a chain if desired.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Kaak, Georgine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Threshold (open access)

Threshold

Patent for an improved threshold to fit the bottom of a door more properly to "prevent the entrance of dust, wind, and rain" (lines 16-17).
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Krause, Ernest
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rug-Hanger. (open access)

Rug-Hanger.

Patent for the improvement of rug-hangers. The invention consists of multiple rollers that facilitate both the mounting and disengagement of rugs or other large flexible articles of merchandise from the hanger.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Griffin, James S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Fitting Stool. (open access)

Shoe-Fitting Stool.

Patent for new and useful improvements in a shoe fitting stool which "comprises a simple and efficient means of this nature so arranged that the measurements of the foot of a person may be quickly and readily determined." (lines 15-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: Reed, Allen Trousdale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry-Crate (open access)

Poultry-Crate

Patent for a poultry-crate with new and useful specifications for a "light but very durable constriction that can be very readily washed out when desired" (lines 27-29).
Date: May 11, 1915
Creator: White, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History