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Automatic Wrench
Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Clay, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder
Patent for a bag holder. This invention is made of four frame sections that fold and when extended supports the bag. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Devini, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Air Suction and Force Pump
Patent for improvement in suction and force pumps, a pneumatic lift-and-force pump for raising water from wells.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
De Hymel, Franklin O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses by making baling-presses into a hand held portable press which includes a head block that could be released easily and quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Nicholas, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade Support
Patent for window shade supports; specifically adjustable curtains, draperies, and shade supports. This invention is to provide a device that is strong, durable, convenient, and functionally effective for the purposes intended.
Date:
July 7, 1913
Creator:
Hammers, Wendell P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Cook, Katherine B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cleaning Device
Patent for a device to clean a well to prevent pumps from being clogged.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Kilburn, John Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cotton-Baling Tamper.
Patent for improvements in steam cotton-baling tamper by automating the tamping process and the feed of cotton to the baling hopper. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Walker, Jackson Lamar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thrust Bearing
Patent for a thrust bearing. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street-Indicator for Electric Cars.
Patent for improvements in street indicating device for electric cars by informing the driver which street is, as the car approaches the streets. The device can be mount within a car and once it is installed, it is completely automatic. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Morton, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating-Machine.
Patent for a refrigerator that operates connected to an ice-making machine
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Schrade, John Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Drinking-Fountain.
Patent for improvement in sanitary drinking fountains by providing a device in which the “discharge nozzle of the fountain is protected against contact with the mouth of the user, thereby enhance the sanitary nature of the fountain” (lines 16-20). Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Moore, Isham S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine
Patent for a washing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Pippin, John William & Woods, Douglass H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Feed-Box.
Patent for a folding feed box that may be "readily carried or packed in a small space" (lines 18-19) when not being used.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Young, Benjamin Joshua
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Food Tongs
Patent for food tongs. The invention employs scoops. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Wheeler, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Fan.
Patent for improvements in fly fans, is to use the fan in conjunction “with screen doors whereby during the opening and closing of the door the fan will be operated in a direction to direct a current of air outwardly and thereby act as a barrier against the ingress of flies” (lines 16-21). Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Williams, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Drier.
Patent for a device to help dry and warm shoes.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
McIver, James William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Tester
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Seed-Testers" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Weaver, Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History