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Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for Buglar-Alarm. Adding protection to building windows.
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Ogle, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Machine.
Patent for for the creation of a mechanism for the cotton chopper machine. The " provision of a cotton chopper machines comprising a wheel supported frame on which is arranged a particular form of revolving and reciprocating hoe mechanism." (lines 12-16)
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Penn, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a wheel that uses tubes, springs, and cushions to absorb shock and creating a smoother ride for the passenger.
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Milam, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine
Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1913
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Mason's Steel Trig.
Patent for brick mason's steel trig that is designed to hold a straight, horizontal line at the top of a brick wall.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Lake, Clyde A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bailing-Press
Patent for improvements in bailing presses, for baling cotton and other materials and substances. Baling press have strong and durable organization devices and mechanisms for feeding and pressing cotton.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
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 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
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for machine that cleans seed cotton before it is ginned by removing dirt, twigs, and other foreign matter.
Date:
July 15, 1913
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De-Aerator
Patent for improvements in de-aerators such as "forcing the water into the tank and spraying the same against the cylinder to cause the air and gases to separate from the water, and means for causing a vacuum in the upper end of the tank from which a suction pipe extends to allow ready escape of the separated air and gases" (lines 27-33) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Strite, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus
Patent for improvements in apparatus to combined filler and packer for association with cotton press or baling and operations to receive lint cotton.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker.
Patent for a combination lock used to protect automobile circuit breakers from unauthorized use.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Buckeye, George J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Window-Shade Roller
Patent for spring acting window shade rollers. The spring acting mechanism allows for the raising up or down of the shade to any desired position without unnecessary wear.
Date:
August 5, 1913
Creator:
Schindler, Emil F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lens-Grinding Machine.
Patent for a lens grinding machine that polishes any kind of lens via the means of a reciprocating motion in both the grinding tool and the lens holder.
Date:
August 12, 1913
Creator:
Rousseau, Almer A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers.
Patent for a trouser pattern, "to so construct a pair of trousers that the waist portion thereof may be readily manipulated in order that the trousers may be easily converted from a stock size into a pair of trousers having a high waist band, a low waist band or a waist band at a line between high and low" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Ludwig, John. A. & Moses, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interest Calculator
Patent for an adjustable calendar for calculating interest between two dates, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spike.
Patent for improvements in spikes, in which when the spike is driven into a tie, it will not turn (line 11-12). Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1913
Creator:
Daniels, Winfield S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Stenographic-Writing Means
Patent for improvements in stenographic-writing (typewriting). The object of the invention being "to provide a keyboard comprising keys to cooperate with suitable printing means, and to so arrange said keys...to facilitate the speed at which the writing can be accomplished" (lines 14-20).
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Progressive Electrostatic Separation of Comminuted Materials
Patent for a process of electro-static separation which is the improvement and consists in establishing three different types of electro-static fields upon a single conveying or electrical surface, shifting these fields across the line of normal movement.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil.
Patent for a process of refining crude cotton-seed oil of high acidity (e.g., oils containing from 1.5 to 12 percent acid or higher) to increase the yield of oil of the required color, odor, and flavor.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street - Sweeping Machine.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Street - Sweeping Machines" (lines 6-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Diserens, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hat-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in hat-fasteners in which the “fastener can be adjustable to hats of different sizes and shapes, …., for securing the hat upon the head.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Schmidt, Harel
System:
The Portal to Texas History