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Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles. (open access)

Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.

Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Gray, Charles B. & Teter, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate (open access)

Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plate

Patent for an improvement in Anti-Rail-Creeper Tie-Plates. This device was designed to prevent rails from wearing into the ties, "creeping longitudinally or moving laterally; also to prevent a rail from canting outwardly."
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: McCombs, Oliver A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute (open access)

Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute

Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hose-Coupling (open access)

Automatic Hose-Coupling

Patent for an automatic hose coupling with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Herr, Herbert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Service-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Service-Switch.

Patent for a new automatic service switch "which will be entirely concealed within a casing ordinarily kept locked, thus preventing any unauthorized parties from endangering themselves by tampering with the switch, and furthermore impeding any attempt to defraud the company furnishing the current by rendering the switch difficult to access." (lines 35-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Wetter, Ralph E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE. (open access)

AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE.

Patent for an improved automatic scale that can weigh large measurements of crops, including illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1914
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bank Pass-Book. (open access)

Bank Pass-Book.

Patent for an improved Bank Pass-Book that shows the identification of the individual written on the inside and outside of the book.
Date: December 8, 1914
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Out Guard (open access)

Blow-Out Guard

Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Holloman, Alfred A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner. (open access)

Boll Breaker and Cleaner.

Patent for a boll breaker and cleaner with a casing with a pair of revolving cylinders with boll-breaking arms adapted to work with additional boll-breaking arms projected from rocking shafts in the lower portion of the casing. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1914
Creator: Hale, John W. & Galey, John I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
BOTTLE-CAP (open access)

BOTTLE-CAP

Patent for a bottle cap with a removable strainer.
Date: February 17, 1914
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders (open access)

Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders

Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculating Device (open access)

Calculating Device

Patent for an improved calculating device including a calendar.
Date: September 30, 1914
Creator: Moody, Jason B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1914 (open access)

Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Carrollton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: July 31, 1914
Creator: Risien, John T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Suction Fan (open access)

Centrifugal Suction Fan

Patent for improvements made towards in suction fans that are found in cotton picking machines to improve efficiency. The primary improvements detailed in the patent describe and illustrate an improved design of the casing inside the fan to prevent damage to the cotton or the seed once they are sucked into the fan, among other design improvements.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Meier, John & Miller, T. S., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Check from Levi Perryman to A.D Lunn, October 18, 1914] (open access)

[Check from Levi Perryman to A.D Lunn, October 18, 1914]

Check from Levi Perryman to A.D Lunn for $176.50. The check is from First National Bank in Saint Jo, Texas. The back of the check is endorsed by A.D Lunn, and there are 3 stamps on the check. The first is from Farmers and Merchants National Bank in Nocona, Texas; the second is from American Exchange National Bank in Dallas, Texas; and the last one is a stamp that says "Paid" from the Citizens National bank in Saint Jo, Texas.
Date: October 28, 1914
Creator: Perryman, Levi
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for an improvement to churns; this invention provides a churn in which milk is thoroughly agitated via the opposite rotation of two dashers, and will simultaneously allow for observation of the churning operation via a glass vessel.
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Samuel C.M. Anderson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Dalworth Park Tax Roll: 1914 to 1934] (open access)

[City of Dalworth Park Tax Roll: 1914 to 1934]

Tax rolls for Dalworth Park, Texas documenting properties during 1914-1934, including the name and address of each property's owner, each property's assessed value, and taxes organized by year.
Date: 1914/1934
Creator: Dalworth Park (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1914 to 1928, Delinquent Rolls] (open access)

[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1914 to 1928, Delinquent Rolls]

Tax rolls for Grand Prairie, Texas documenting real and personal properties during 1914 to 1928, including the name of each property's owner, each property's description and assessed value, taxes due, date paid, and receipt number. This volume contains information for property owners who owe delinquent taxes.
Date: 1914/1928
Creator: Grand Prairie (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1914 to 1936, Delinquent Rolls] (open access)

[City of Grand Prairie Tax Roll: 1914 to 1936, Delinquent Rolls]

Tax rolls for Grand Prairie, Texas documenting properties during 1914-1936. This volume contains information for property owners who owe delinquent taxes.
Date: 1914/1936
Creator: Grand Prairie (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner (open access)

Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner

Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Gilbert, James Madison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combustion Device (open access)

Combustion Device

Patent for a combustion device that allows for the control of fuel to one or two burners of the same fire box. This device is also built in an upright position to assist in supporting the burner members of the box. This device is built stronger and simpler than other devices of its kind.
Date: September 8, 1914
Creator: Halliburton, Orville G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Removing Coatings (open access)

Composition for Removing Coatings

Patent for a coating remover, made by mixing an alkali, an oxidizing agent, a solvent, and another chemical to prevent water evaporation.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome Nichols; Smith, Walter K. & Oliger, J. D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevating and Distributing System (open access)

Cotton Elevating and Distributing System

Patent for a machine that purifies cotton by removing the cotton from surrounding elements and distributing the cotton.
Date: February 17, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for improvements to Cotton-Gins' brush cylinders that includes "a longitudinal tubular member having a brush cylinder cooperating therewith and which serves as a conduit for the passage of the lint cotton from the gin and also as a connecting means for the legs of the gin frame and as an end outlet for the gin, and leaving the rear of the latter unobstructed and freely accessible" (lines 13-21), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History