Attachment for Cabinets. (open access)

Attachment for Cabinets.

Patent for Attachment for Cabinets. An adjustable bracket that attaches to various pieces of cabinetry or furniture for supporting water basins for easy reach.
Date: October 28, 1913
Creator: Austin, W. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Hoisting Liquids from Wells. (open access)

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
Bailing-Press (open access)

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
Corn And Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn And Cotton Planter

Patent for Corn and Cotton Planter
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Robinson, Marcus; Robinson, Samuel & Davis, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Harrow. (open access)

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. (open access)

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
Baling Press (open access)

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
Combined Plow and Cultivator. (open access)

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
Automatic Mail Crane. (open access)

Automatic Mail Crane.

Patent for an automatic mail-crane that is simple, durable, and inexpensive.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Lane, Ernest R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard consisting of pivoted metal plates, mounted longitudinally on rail ties that rock to an inclined position when stepped on by an animal. The displacement of the plates causes a portion of the plate to come into contact with the foot of the animal, frightening it and preventing the animal from crossing the cattle guard.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Hagan, Francis D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Suction and Force Pump (open access)

Air Suction and Force Pump

Patent for improvement in suction and force pumps, a pneumatic lift-and-force pump for raising water from wells.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: De Hymel, Franklin O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by making baling-presses into a hand held portable press which includes a head block that could be released easily and quickly. Illustration is included.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Nicholas, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller for Railway-Track Jacks. (open access)

Roller for Railway-Track Jacks.

Patent for roller for railway track jacks that will lessen the weight of the jack and allow it to be moved easily.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Funk, William R. & Funk, Charley F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench for Rotary Well-Drills. (open access)

Wrench for Rotary Well-Drills.

Patent for a wrench designed to assist in working with rotary well drills. The wrench is adapted for unscrewing the coupling that attaches a drill point to a pipe section, as well as for detaching the pipe sections from one another. The advantage of the wrench is in allowing convenient detachment of the parts of a well drill quickly and efficiently.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Lebus, George Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Woodworking-Clamp. (open access)

Woodworking-Clamp.

Patent for woodworking clamp that is adjustable so that it can be used with many different shapes and sizes.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Seidel, Emil K. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for an internal combustion engine that improves on an explosive engine with two hollow pistons, one of which slides within the other and both are connected to a triple crank shaft, so that they reciprocate simultaneously in opposite directions. The invention improves on the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of the explosive engine.
Date: October 28, 1913
Creator: Bogusch, Emil Gustave
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill Attachment. (open access)

Windmill Attachment.

Patent for windmill attachment to improve the construction allowing windmills to function without a sufficient amount of wind through the use of pumps and rods, including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Vaught, Silas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap. (open access)

Insect-Trap.

Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Cook, Katherine B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Cleaning Device (open access)

Well Cleaning Device

Patent for a device to clean a well to prevent pumps from being clogged.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Kilburn, John Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Clasp (open access)

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
Spring Equalizer System. (open access)

Spring Equalizer System.

Patent for a spring equalizing system designed for motor vehicles.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Pitts, William Wirt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

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
Steam Cotton-Baling Tamper. (open access)

Steam Cotton-Baling Tamper.

Patent for improvements in steam cotton-baling tamper by automating the tamping process and the feed of cotton to the baling hopper. Illustration is included.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Walker, Jackson Lamar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Attachment. (open access)

Pumping Attachment.

Patent is for "new and useful Improvements in Pumping Attachments" (lines 5&6) with illustration and instructions on how it works.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: York, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History