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
De-Aerator (open access)

De-Aerator

Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Strite, Frank S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bailing-Press (open access)

Bailing-Press

Patent for improvements in bailing presses, for baling cotton and other materials and substances. Baling press have strong and durable organization devices and mechanisms for feeding and pressing cotton.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Mason's Steel Trig. (open access)

Brick-Mason's Steel Trig.

Patent for brick mason's steel trig that is designed to hold a straight, horizontal line at the top of a brick wall.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: Lake, Clyde A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm. (open access)

Burglar-Alarm.

Patent for Buglar-Alarm. Adding protection to building windows.
Date: November 11, 1913
Creator: Ogle, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker. (open access)

Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker.

Patent for a combination lock used to protect automobile circuit breakers from unauthorized use.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Buckeye, George J.
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
Combined Plow and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Plow and Cultivator.

Patent for combined plow and cultivator "to provide a manually operated mechanism by which the front and rear plows may be simultaneously adjusted up or down, and held in any position of such adjustment" (lines 11-15).
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Womble, Corneilous E. & Martin, Henry G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Scraper (open access)

Combined Plow and Scraper

Patent for "a combined plow and scraper, which may be employed to alternately break or loosen a surface that is being graded or lowered, and to scrape the loosened material from said surface." (lines 14-18)
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Reese, Edwin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper Machine.

Patent for for the creation of a mechanism for the cotton chopper machine. The " provision of a cotton chopper machines comprising a wheel supported frame on which is arranged a particular form of revolving and reciprocating hoe mechanism." (lines 12-16)
Date: November 25, 1913
Creator: Penn, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for machine that cleans seed cotton before it is ginned by removing dirt, twigs, and other foreign matter.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Condenser (open access)

Cotton Condenser

Patent for a condenser for cotton gins.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer. (open access)

Cotton-Packer.

Patent for an automatic cotton packer that provides a new method to packing cotton. This mechanism can be controlled automatically or by hand. As the cotton leaves the gin, it is packed automatically.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Kinne, Tempel Leeroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Saw Gummer (open access)

Cotton-Saw Gummer

Patent for improvements to cotton saw gummers. The patented improvements include a cutter rather than a puncher in the gummer's design, as well as means for adjusting the cutter.
Date: September 2, 1913
Creator: Nelson, De Witt C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for adding spring teeth with adjustable parallel bar attachments to agricultural cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: December 16, 1913
Creator: Ledbetter, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disinfecting Device. (open access)

Disinfecting Device.

Patent for improvements made in the design of disinfecting devices in order to create "a simple and inexpensive apparatus ... effective in evaporating and distributing disinfectants, liquid perfumes or other fluids" (lines 10-13), including illustrations and a description. The device is designed to "discharge a regular supply" (line 14) of fluids, be of "strong, durable, simple" (lines 25-26) construction, and make visible the amount of disinfectant remaining in the device.
Date: June 3, 1913
Creator: Hitchcock, Olga M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer (open access)

Draft Equalizer

Patent for Draft Equalizer with levers and pulleys for attaching a horse or team of horses.
Date: March 16, 1913
Creator: Dudley, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dressing Device for Armless People (open access)

Dressing Device for Armless People

Patent for a dressing device that aids in dressing people with no arms by buttoning and unbuttoning shirts and adjusting neckties. Illustrations included.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Educational Device. (open access)

Educational Device.

Patent for "improvements in combined desk and blackboard devices arranged in convenient shape for opening and closing and reversing in position" (lines 8-11); including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Waist Adjuster. (open access)

Garment-Waist Adjuster.

Patent for a more easily constructed garment waist adjuster that manipulates the circumference of garments for a perfect fit to eliminate the need of a belt or suspenders, including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Hurst, Albert K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Tug. (open access)

Hame-Tug.

Patent for a new hame tug leather strap designed with metal loops and a buckle, including illustrations.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Schoellkopf, Jacob Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hat-Fastener. (open access)

Hat-Fastener.

Patent for improvements in hat-fasteners in which the “fastener can be adjustable to hats of different sizes and shapes, …., for securing the hat upon the head.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Schmidt, Harel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interest Calculator (open access)

Interest Calculator

Patent for an adjustable calendar for calculating interest between two dates, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Moody, Jason B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lens-Grinding Machine. (open access)

Lens-Grinding Machine.

Patent for a lens grinding machine that polishes any kind of lens via the means of a reciprocating motion in both the grinding tool and the lens holder.
Date: August 12, 1913
Creator: Rousseau, Almer A.
System: The Portal to Texas History