Resource Type

Attachment For Mowers (open access)

Attachment For Mowers

Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Muller, Hermann W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cake-Rack (open access)

Automatic Cake-Rack

Patent for a display device of desert type foods.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Jones, Seaborn W. & Postlethwaite, Alonzo W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Camera. (open access)

Camera.

Patent for "means for accurately focusing the main or photographic lens without relying upon the scale; to provide means for determining the full extent of the view to be photographed; and to provide for seeing the image upon a ground glass up to the moment of exposure." (lines 10-16)
Date: August 15, 1916
Creator: Overman, Charles Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History