Battery Connector (open access)

Battery Connector

Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Hale, Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Separator. (open access)

Cotton-Boll Separator.

Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Attachment for Locomotive-Cabs. (open access)

Safety Attachment for Locomotive-Cabs.

Patent for a locomotive engine safety device involving a detachable protective carrier that releases from the engineer's cab allowing escape from the locomotive engine cab in case of danger, including illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Uttz, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses. (open access)

Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.

Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Brown, John Walter R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for an improvement to the plow by providing a plastic or plastic-like material to help sticky, thick soil and clay to glide over the surface and decrease frictional resistance, including illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Fleehearty, Edward L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing by Lithography (open access)

Printing by Lithography

Patent for improvements in lithography printing that further help reproduce worn or difficult engravings, as well as transfer and make impressions into engravings with slight loss of effect, while also providing a means in which the engraving or stone can be prepared expeditiously and inexpensively. (lines 10-25)
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Ray, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Operating and Locking Means. (open access)

Gate Operating and Locking Means.

Patent for an "invention that relates to new and useful improvements in gates and particularly that class which swing in a vertical plane." (Lines 12-14)
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Hoffman, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller Boring-Drill (open access)

Roller Boring-Drill

Patent for a roller boring drill in which "the cutting rollers are arranged on the drill in a novel manner." Object of invention is to keep the drill centered in the hole to prevent wobbling.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rivet Setting and Displacing Tool (open access)

Rivet Setting and Displacing Tool

Patent for a tool for "setting new rivets and displacing defective rivets from buggy bow-sockets" (line 9-10), and it is aimed to be easy to use with efficiency and reliability. The tool is constructed to be "simple, strong, durable and inexpensive construction" (line 16-18).
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Thrasher, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller Boring-Drill (open access)

Roller Boring-Drill

Patent for roller boring drill that provides the cutting device to maintain clearance of the drill-head and can be adjusted to compensate for wear.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch Mechanism (open access)

Switch Mechanism

Patent for a switch mechanism, which is a improvement for the switch throwing mechanisms used for street railway systems. "The switch is set by means of tripping devices by the car and under control of the motorman."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Yoakum, Hugh D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Cake Feeder. (open access)

Oil-Cake Feeder.

Patent for new improvements in oil-cake feeders to regulate the feed supply to cattle.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: McFarland, James G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Supporting Device (open access)

Plant-Supporting Device

Patent for a simple form of a plant supporting and sticking device for gardeners and agriculturalists, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Allen, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer (open access)

Draft-Equalizer

Patent for a draft-equalizer which is an apparatus adapted to be used for, "three draft animals, one pulling against two animals.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: McCall, Robert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubberized Fabric and Rubber Tire. (open access)

Rubberized Fabric and Rubber Tire.

Patent for rubberized fabric and rubber tires.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Dees, Mark A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crossover (open access)

Crossover

Patent for cross-overs in railways to prevent collisions of trains traveling on intersecting track ways
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Miller, Sam P.
System: The Portal to Texas History