Display-Board (open access)

Display-Board

Patent for electronic baseball display board. Including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Detrick, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad (open access)

Knee-Pad

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Knee-Pads" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Schmitt, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Adjusting Mechanism (open access)

Lamp-Adjusting Mechanism

Patent for improvements for lamp-adjusting mechanism for one of the lamps of an automobile for operation from driver's seat. The driver is enabled from seat to partially rotate one of the forward lamps, causing the light to follow curve of road.
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Maxfield, Nelson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Levee. (open access)

Levee.

Patent for reinforced levees with "means whereby the water will be positively prevented from seeping therethrough and weakening the levee" (lines 14-16).
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Beazley, John Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pear-Burner (open access)

Pear-Burner

Patent for improvements in pear-burners of the type good for use with hydrocarbon fuels and adapted to be exploited directly by hand, for example for burning small objects located in positions not accessible.
Date: September 30, 1913
Creator: Messerli, John J. & Mayfield, Jesse L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Dumping Drag Harrow (open access)

Self-Dumping Drag Harrow

Patent for an invention, including specifications, of an improved Self-Dumping Drag-Harrows mechanism. The device is capable of rotating or changing the angle of harrow teeth and body without the effort of the machine operator, facilitating faster movement and increased production. The mechanism in question is claimed by the applicant in addition to the competent parts arranged in such a fashion as to mimic the capabilities of the described device.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Bales, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design of the Child's Quaker Bonnet (open access)

Design of the Child's Quaker Bonnet

Patent for ornamental design bonnet manufactured out of the coarse fiber loofah.
Date: September 26, 1913
Creator: Schwenke, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus. (open access)

Bat-Forming Apparatus.

Patent for an apparatus to form bats, made of fibrous material, to be placed in the coverings or tickings to make mattresses. The apparatus works so that "the bat-forming fibrous material may be evenly distributed, and by which the mattress-forming operation may be expeditiously carried on" (lines 16-19). The patent includes illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Haynes, Daniel & Haynes, Richard H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Shaft Brace. (open access)

Buggy-Shaft Brace.

Patent for buggy shaft braces for connecting the shaft and cross bar of a vehicle, in order to eliminate malfunction of cross bar.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Brunken, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed. (open access)

Cabinet-Bed.

Patent for improved cabinet bed construction features, which include allow access to mirror on either side.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Giordano, Anthony
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Tip Cutter. (open access)

Cigar-Tip Cutter.

Patent for a cigar clipper that enables the clipper to fold compactly along the edge of the cigar box when not in use.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Miller, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus (open access)

Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus

Patent for improvements in apparatus to combined filler and packer for association with cotton press or baling and operations to receive lint cotton.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for improvements to cultivators that allow the driver to adjust displacement in order to avoid obstacles without changing the path of operation.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Foster, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Irrigation System (open access)

Elevated Irrigation System

Patent for an elevated irrigation system that relates to a useful system for supplying and distributing water, for the irrigation of large tracts of land.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Anderson, Young Rhea
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism for Cotten-Gins (open access)

Feeding Mechanism for Cotten-Gins

Patent related to cotton ginning plants, providing an improvement to the "mechanism controlling the feeding of the cotton supplied to the gins" (lines 13-14).
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Riemenschneider, Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap. (open access)

Insect-Trap.

Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Progressive Electrostatic Separation of Comminuted Materials (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Progressive Electrostatic Separation of Comminuted Materials

Patent for a process of electro-static separation which is the improvement and consists in establishing three different types of electro-static fields upon a single conveying or electrical surface, shifting these fields across the line of normal movement.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Propelling Mechanism For Bicycles. (open access)

Propelling Mechanism For Bicycles.

Patent for propelling mechanism for bicycles that allows any type of bicycle frame to have an improved and inexpensive added high speed mechanism, including illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Meschkat, Wilhelm
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separating-Table and Process of Separation. (open access)

Separating-Table and Process of Separation.

Patent for a separation table to separate and collect particles by size and mass. Used to remove impurities.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine (open access)

Adding Machine

Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1913
Creator: Moody, Jason B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmitting Telegraph Relay (open access)

Transmitting Telegraph Relay

Patent for Transmitting Telegraph Relay and it uses.
Date: September 22, 1913
Creator: Mains, Thane H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Protector. (open access)

Baby-Protector.

Patent for a protective device designed to keep an infant from sufficiently bending their arms and reaching their mouth, thereby preventing the child from potentially ingesting dangerous foreign articles.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Dodd, Jacob Everette
System: The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim (open access)

Demountable Rim

Patent for a durable yet inexpensive "demountable rim for vehicle wheels" (lines 12-13), with a sectional design for ease of attachment and removal.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: McPherson, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Umbrella. (open access)

Folding Umbrella.

Patent for folding umbrella that consists of: improved construction, easy to open and close, as well as folding small upon collapse.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Beaver, John Mitchell
System: The Portal to Texas History