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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
Caster Attachment.
Patent for casters. An attachment to prevent insects from passing up bed posts or other furniture. Fits to any form of caster.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
McCombs, John E. & McCombs, J.E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Dump
Patent for automatic dumpers that can be readily and inexpensively fitted and adapted to most forms of dump car.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Putnam, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine.
Patent for an advertising machine that reverses the travel of the apron that is used to connect with, and where, the display sign is printed. It also easily and efficiently reverses the driving mechanism once the apron is completely unwound from one of the rollers. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Looney, Marma Duke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for improvements for shipping crates, including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Dick, Archie P., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for new and useful improvement to clothes pins to automatically lock themselves against accidental disengagement from the clothes line.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Clamp
Patent for a cotton sack clamp with improvements for securing adjustable shoulder straps to cotton sacks without the need for sewing
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Stanton, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Listing-Plow.
Patent for a listing plow, "more particularly an improvement upon the structure disclosed in Patent No. 866,679, issued to [Gottfried Persson] on September 24, 1907" (lines 9-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Persson, Gottfrid
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Cooler.
Patent for a liquid cooler consisting of "few parts of simple form" (line 13) and constructed of wood and metal, including illustrations. The liquid cooler can be thoroughly cleaned, making it possible to maintain a "sanitary condition" (line 17).
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Hanna, Oscar V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Cabinet.
Patent for a typewriter cabinet with swinging typewriter support held in position by foot pressure.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Keltz, Eugene L. & Rhoads, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for "a new and useful Hydrocarbon-burner...equipped with a safety device adapted to admit only a limited supply of gasolene or other fuel to the burner to enable the latter to be operated with absolute safety by either a woman or a child" (lines 5-19), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Nemec, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Guide.
Patent for a Paper-Guide that can be folded, when it is not in service position, to allow it to be covered by the typewriting machine it is attached to. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Davis, Alice Urilla
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Plate.
Patent for Tie-Plate, which is an improvement on rail ties for railroad use. The Tie-Plate is a "single piece of material", providing a "rail supporting surface" (pg. 2, lines 13-17). Ribbing in the plate, allow for adjustable height to support the rails and a seat for the spikes.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Plow.
Patent for a type of steering shoe for a motor plow powered by gasoline or internal combustion.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Robison, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump and Windmill Connection
Patent for a connection between a pump and a windmill which varies the speed of the stroke.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Slover, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propelling or Power-Generating Mechanism.
Patent for the constructions of a propelling machine of a vessel, which is provided an electric motor in an engine as a power source for propelling the vessel.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Caldwell, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Obtaining Oil and Stock Food from Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a process for preparing stock food and extracting oil from cotton seed. The objectives include obtaining more oil from seed and a very nutritious stock food. The other objectives are eliminating waste of the residue after the oil has been extracted, regulating protein, and killing germs from the food. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Covey, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Rod Coupling.
Patent for "a pump rod coupling and more particularly to a coupling adapted to connect together pump rods made of wood or similar substance" (lines 8-11).
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Kemp, Thomas Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Pin.
Patent for a hairpin which consists of multiple parts made to grip the hair while secured in place with illustrations included.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Jacobsen, Herbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a saw-filing machine that automatically sharpens the teeth of gin and linter saws.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Ross, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Drain-pan for Refrigerators.
Patent for a sanitary drain pan for refrigerators, specifically pertaining to sliced meats. The text explains the benefits of the new drain pan and its components.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Schmalzried, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Delivering Attachment for Silos.
Patent for a rotatable feed delivering frame attachment for silos. This eliminates the need to manually climb the silo to transfer ensilage.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Scott, Stephen M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Selective Telegraph System.
Patent for a selective telegraph switch which allows current to be directed to a specific place and will minimize resistance.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Edwards, Claude, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History