Resource Type
Country
States
Funnel
Patent for a funnel designed to fill various containers.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Kott, Arthur O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Distilling Petroleum.
Patent for apparatus and improving practices associated with distillation of petroleum as undistilled residues, as well as petroleum in other forms.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Van Dyke, John W.; Irish, William M.; Ellis, H. A. & Esterly, Edw. C.
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
Cleaner For Firearm-Barrels.
Patent for a cleaner for firearm barrels that is small enough to be carried in a pocket. "May be used for cleaning firearms of the repeating type."
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
P'Pool, Matthew Wall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Protector.
Patent for a protective device designed to keep an infant from sufficiently bending their arms and reaching their mouth, thereby preventing the child from potentially ingesting dangerous foreign articles.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Dodd, Jacob Everette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Body.
Patent for an automobile body that is designed for people who enjoy doing outdoor activities. Compares this design to the current design of what is called "touring cars."
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Saxon, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Harrow.
Patent for combined plows and harrows, which operates to break up the earth after it has been plowed, while the plow is opening another furrow. This invention also features the provision of a harrow attachment which can be readily applied to or removed from various types of plows.
Date:
October 21, 1913
Creator:
Rohrer, Darius B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.
Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1913
Creator:
Alsup, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter-Regulating Mechanism.
Patent for improvements in carbureter-regulating mechanism by "automatically regulate the air and fuel valve of a carbureter, according to the speed of the engine and the load being carried thereby" (lines 12-15, p.1.) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 21, 1913
Creator:
Carpenter, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter to be Introduced into the Inner Tubes of Pneumatic Tires for Rendering the Tires Puncture-Proof.
Patent for a mixture of dextrin, asbestos, magnesia, glycerin, wood alcohol and water that is introduced into tire tubes to prevent and seal tire punctures.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Causey, Thomas S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Combined Broom and Cloth Hanger.
Patent for a combined broom and cloth hanger, which allows a broom to be quickly engaged and supported at any desired elevation above the user's floor. It can also be folded against the wall when the broom is not in use, "...whereby the ordinary broom cover...can be conveniently clamped and held securely in position between the lower end of the bracket and against the support by passing the broom cover over and through the rods when the hanger is in a receiving position" (lines 24-30).
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Ussery, Walter R. & Cook, Enoch J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressor.
Patent for a more efficient air compressor with high and low pressure chambers formed of mating sections that can be detached to make repairs to the piston as necessary.
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
Murphy, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn that can produce butter in very short period of time with minimal effort.
Date:
May 19, 1913
Creator:
Hoefer, Charles Jr.; Belt, Marcus L. Jr. & Belt, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gap Gate.
Patent for new and improved water gap gates to protect gates and barriers during natural interference, thereby preventing livestock injury.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Sattler, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle.
Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
McFarland, Frank Hays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Escape.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Fire-Escapes" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Thompson, Herman E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for improvements to baling presses for double bale type presses. It includes elevators and a reciprocating press head.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Potter, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Spout.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in stoppers and discharge spouts for cans, or receptacles more particularly to cans employed in shipping kerosene oil, cotton seed oil, turpentine syrups and various other liquids." (lines 10-15).
Date:
March 25, 1913
Creator:
Herblin, William Leonard
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
Concrete Construction
Patent for improved concrete construction methods for creating buildings made of or with concrete. These improvements include lighter walls with an air space that prevents dampening.
Date:
September 12, 1913
Creator:
Howard, Frances H.
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
Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for "a new and useful edge drop feeder or seeder". (line 14)
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
C. W. Loe; Loe, C. W & Mitchell, T. L.; T. L. Mitchell
System:
The Portal to Texas History