Automobile-Pump (open access)

Automobile-Pump

Patent for an automobile tire pump that can be used with any size tire.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Goeth, Richard Anton; Rodgers, Robert B. & Dittmar, John Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom (open access)

Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom

Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Hansen, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ax Handle (open access)

Ax Handle

Patent for an ax handle. The handle is a tubular handle which also includes hingedly connected part fitting into the eye of the ax head. Illustration included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Burks, William Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Shield for Vehicle-Wheels (open access)

Advertising-Shield for Vehicle-Wheels

Patent for a shield for vehicle wheels that can be used for advertising.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Blackshear, Robert King
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustrations included.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: Brown, Herbert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost (open access)

Chicken-Roost

Patent for an improved chicken roost.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: Conner, Joshua H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerating-Churn. (open access)

Aerating-Churn.

Patent for an improved churn for aerating cream by forcing air down a pipe into the churn.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Wailes, William S. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate-Clamping Machine. (open access)

Crate-Clamping Machine.

Patent for "improvement in crate clamping machines" (line 10), holding end boards and partition of crates to enable crate assembly.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: C. T. Dickson; Dickson, C. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Spout. (open access)

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
Combination Stock and Freight Car. (open access)

Combination Stock and Freight Car.

Patent for stock cars and means for converting a stock car in part or as whole into a freight car.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Bertsch, John Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a vertical dash butter churn with a frame that allows for removal of the receptacle with dash parts still attached to the frame, including illustrations.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Collins, Edward L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Tool (open access)

Compound Tool

Patent for a compound tool which combines the features of the nut-wrench and the pipe-wrench.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Scroggins, James L. & Waldrop, A. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane. (open access)

Aeroplane.

Patent for an improved rotary airplane engine patterned after the Gnome type with extra blades attached to the engine cylinders.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil. (open access)

Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil.

Patent for "refining crude cotton seed oil designed to increase the yield of refined oil of the required color, odor and flavor." (lines 11-13)
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Jesse C. Chisholm; J. Chisholm; Chisholm, Jesse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.

Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Steinocher, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life-Saving Device. (open access)

Life-Saving Device.

Patent for a collapsible life-saving device that can be stored in little space on a ship or dock and unfolded quickly for use as a flotation device for several persons.
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Bradford, Thomas C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg Tester. (open access)

Egg Tester.

Patent for "an improved egg tester". (line 14)
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Smith, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire stretcher (open access)

Wire stretcher

This patent is to help provide an improved wire stretcher.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Riley, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill Attachment (open access)

Windmill Attachment

Patent for a windmill attachment that allows the windmill to be operated either by wind or hand power without needing to disconnect the sucker rod from the windmill.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Kay, Henry P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Exterminator (open access)

Insect Exterminator

Patent for removing boll weevils from cotton plants. The device brushes the weevils into the furrows where they are crushed. Illustration included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Scott, Earl Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c (open access)

Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c

Patent for a knee pad for cotton pickers with a pneumatic cushion.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Herron, William Patrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Juice-Extractor (open access)

Juice-Extractor

Patent for an improved juice extractor including a way to remove the strainer for easy cleaning or replacement, a swivel for the handle, and an overall more efficient device.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Williams, Winfield B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil (open access)

Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil

Patent for improvements in the processes of refining crude cotton-seed oil which increases the yield of refined oil. Improved results are are obtained by "neutralizing the oil with an alkaline silicate and then treating the oil with a mixture of alkaline hydroxid and alkaline carbonate" (lines 28-31).
Date: March 18, 1913
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tree-Heater (open access)

Tree-Heater

Patent for a tree heater for putting under small trees to protect them from cold weather.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Wilson, Luther M.
System: The Portal to Texas History