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
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
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
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
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
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
Water-Gage-Glass Column. (open access)

Water-Gage-Glass Column.

Patent for a new water gage column, resistant to breakage, made of glass used to measure water levels indicating boiler steam pressure, with illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Paul, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for an improved and resilient spring wheel for a vehicle.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Collinsworth, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lever Mechanism for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Lever Mechanism for Baling-Presses.

Patent for new and improved lever mechanisms specifically for hand baling presses to increase the amount of pressure exerted on the material being baled in a short stroke.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Swan, George B.
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
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
Hose-Nozzle Holder. (open access)

Hose-Nozzle Holder.

Patent for a hose nozzle holder, particularly for garden hoses, with illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Austin, Hebert
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
Seeder and Planter. (open access)

Seeder and Planter.

Patent for a seeder and planter improvement. The invention "produce an improved leveling board to be used in connection therewith the purpose of leveling soil and crushing clods and for the additional purpose of regulating the depth to which the seed shall be planted." (lines 9-14)
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Mallory, Merideth T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protractor. (open access)

Protractor.

Patent for "improvements in drafting instruments and has particular application to a protractor or plotter." (lines 8-10)
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Ward, Walter P.
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
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