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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
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
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
Concrete Construction (open access)

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
Advertising-Machine. (open access)

Advertising-Machine.

Patent for an advertising machine that reverses the travel of the apron that is used to connect with, and where, the display sign is printed. It also easily and efficiently reverses the driving mechanism once the apron is completely unwound from one of the rollers. The patent includes illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1913
Creator: Looney, Marma Duke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

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
Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for "a new and useful edge drop feeder or seeder". (line 14)
Date: April 1, 1913
Creator: C. W. Loe; Loe, C. W & Mitchell, T. L.; T. L. Mitchell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blade. (open access)

Blade.

Patent for a new blade similar to "weed blades" (line 10) that can be "attached to a cultivator" (line 11) and includes an illustration.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Kelly, John H. & Mershon, John H.
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
Brake. (open access)

Brake.

Patent for a new brake design that forms part of the driving mechanism of a sewing machine. The design has been adapted to include a plurality of small rollers that exert different amounts of friction on brake wheels.
Date: July 13, 1913
Creator: Gaines, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Shaft Brace. (open access)

Buggy-Shaft Brace.

Patent for buggy shaft braces for connecting the shaft and cross bar of a vehicle, in order to eliminate malfunction of cross bar.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Brunken, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
De-Aerator (open access)

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 (open access)

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
Lamp-Burner. (open access)

Lamp-Burner.

Patent for improved lamp burners, which reduces explosion risk, improves wick trimming, and maintains chimney positioning.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Mills, Virgil H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tile (open access)

Bale Tile

Patent for a bale tie for cotton bales.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for clothes pins made from non-oxidizable wire, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Buckley, John Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Pump (open access)

Air Pump

Patent for an air pump for the delivery of air to the tire of a wheel.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Scott, Charles Mack
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for Clothes Pin made of galvanized wire that will remain normally on the line. It will also prevent the adjacent pins from becoming tangled together. It's twisted portions adapted for riding content with the line to hold the pin in operative position.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Perry, Cornelius Doctor & Wosnig, Walter, E.
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
Crate (open access)

Crate

Patent for improvements for shipping crates, including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1913
Creator: Dick, Archie P., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed. (open access)

Cabinet-Bed.

Patent for improved cabinet bed construction features, which include allow access to mirror on either side.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Giordano, Anthony
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton.

Patent for an apparatus that cleans burs and other foreign matter from cotton through a suction process prior to ginning, including instructions and illustrations. The inventor claims this apparatus is simpler, more affordable, and more effective than previous methods for cleaning cotton.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Brown, Thomas N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker. (open access)

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
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