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Churn
Patent for a churn. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Brown, Herbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank for Making Perforated Tubing
Patent for a blank for the manufacturing of well tubing used in water and oil wells.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Hoisting Liquids from Wells.
Patent for an “apparatus for raising liquid from wells by means of a compressed fluid, such as air or other vapors or gas“ (lines 9-12). The apparatus leaves liquid from the well under normal pressure during hoisting or pumping, and allows for varying amounts of liquid to be extracted.
Date:
October 28, 1913
Creator:
McCall, Duncan D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster Attachment.
Patent for casters. An attachment to prevent insects from passing up bed posts or other furniture. Fits to any form of caster.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
McCombs, John E. & McCombs, J.E.
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
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
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
Clothes-Pin
Patent for new and useful improvement to clothes pins to automatically lock themselves against accidental disengagement from the clothes line.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Rocking-Chairs
Patent for attachments for rocking chairs such as a rotary fan and platform for the rockers of the chair among other items including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Ryan, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Levee.
Patent for reinforced levees with "means whereby the water will be positively prevented from seeping therethrough and weakening the levee" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 30, 1913
Creator:
Beazley, John Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Attachment
Patent for improvements in boiler attachments, to produce a thermostatic device of simple and improved construction which may be utilized for the purpose of actuating a valve governing the steam supply to the pump or the injector.
Date:
June 28, 1913
Creator:
Priester, Joel Ellis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Mechanism
Patent for a well drilling mechanism. This invention addresses the time consuming labor of screwing together sections of drilling pipe. This invention "contemplates an apparatus adapted to be attached to the frame of the rotary and operated by the driving mechanism of the rotary...screwing and unscrewing accomplished by mechanical means without manual means" (lines 38-44). Illustration included.
Date:
January 14, 1913
Creator:
Hall, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen.
Patent for improvements in the construction of well-screens in order to increase efficiency and prevent clogs using a "cheap and durable construction" (lines 11-12) that includes illustrations and a description.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon, E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid or Gaseous Fuel Burner.
Patent for a fuel burner with a simple design, which is readily taken apart or assembled, and is manufactured at a comparatively small cost.
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Vandaveer, Heber Clark & Stoy, Guy Everett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for making Water and Oil Screens.
Patent for a new way of making forming "a wire screening surface about a perforated pipe" (lines 67-68) with illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Kreiter, Richard F.; Post, Ernest S.; Roco, Albert L. & Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incubator Alarm
Patent for incubator alarm in which an audible signal will be triggered when the temperature of the incubator is above or below the normal predetermined degree.
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Kelley, Clyde W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Clasp
Patent for tie-clasp for men's neckties, which will hold the tie in place and prevent it from becoming loose or untied.
Date:
October 13, 1913
Creator:
Willingham, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that has plurality of nozzles from which hydrocarbon is discharged by steam pressure to collide at common point before combustion.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Wall, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Plate.
Patent for Tie-Plate, which is an improvement on rail ties for railroad use. The Tie-Plate is a "single piece of material", providing a "rail supporting surface" (pg. 2, lines 13-17). Ribbing in the plate, allow for adjustable height to support the rails and a seat for the spikes.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Cup.
Patent for an oil cup to be used for lubricating bearings that can be regulated with a valve to control the flow of the lubricant.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Dawley, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Laying Machine
Patent for Tracking Laying machine.The combination of train of cars, sectional tramway, and extending along the sides of the car gives means for disconnecting the connection. The fore-mentioned applications improves tack laying machines.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Simpson, Charles, M. & Smith, Howard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mineral-Prospecting Apparatus.
Patent for an "apparatus for drilling and obtaining samples or specimens of minerals" (lines 12-13), and obtaining accurate samples of ores in situations where they would otherwise be washed away by water or broken apart. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History