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
Copy-Holding Pointograph. (open access)

Copy-Holding Pointograph.

Patent for a mechanism used in typewriters that holds documents to be copied indicates the line to be copied and shifts the document automatically. In addition, the patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Mathews, Louis T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switch for Automatic Passenger-Fare-Registering Mechanism. (open access)

Electric Switch for Automatic Passenger-Fare-Registering Mechanism.

Patent for "improvements to electric switches for automatic passenger fare registering mechanisms" (lines 10-12). Illustration and instruction included.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Savage, Harry & Baker, Willard L.
System: The Portal to Texas History