Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute (open access)

Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute

Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carriage (open access)

Cotton-Sack Carriage

Patent for a simply structured carriage that will provide support to cotton sacks varying in different lengths.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Alexander, Eugene E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Automobile Lamp Support (open access)

Dirigible Automobile Lamp Support

Patent for an automobile lamp which directs light towards other automobiles.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Bailey, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for a joint designed to stop the ends of rails from moving.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Fedrick, Samuel B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scale (open access)

Scale

Patent for a scale used to cut a precise amount of meat for customers from a larger piece of meat.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Jones, Jack H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer for Use with Electric Fans (open access)

Vaporizer for Use with Electric Fans

Patent for an improvement on diffusers used for purifying, cooling and humidifying air.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Stratford, John R. & Ackley, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Actuating Mechanism (open access)

Churn-Actuating Mechanism

Patent for a churn actuated mechanism that is operated by means of a rocking chair.
Date: October 9, 1914
Creator: Jones, Erastus T. & Stanton, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner (open access)

Oil Burner

Patent for an oil burner that holds enough fuel to be used for stoves.
Date: October 10, 1914
Creator: Carr, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Change-Speed Gearing (open access)

Change-Speed Gearing

Patent for "power transmission for automobiles... provides a driving shaft and a driven shaft arranged in alignment, and a countershaft which parallels the driving and driven shafts and carries a set of gears that continuously mesh."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Relle, William A. So
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner (open access)

Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner

Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Gilbert, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-Wrench (open access)

Elevator-Wrench

Patent for an improvement in elevator wrenches. The device is meant to be used with rotary drilling machines for "supporting the drilling the drill pipe and for holding it from rotation during the releasing of the several joins of the pipe when it is necessary to withdraw the drill from the well hole."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Lebus, George Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuse-Block. (open access)

Fuse-Block.

Patent for the Fuse Block. Patent is an improvement to the existing Fuse Block. It allows safer working conditions for those who have to replace or install new fuse blocks at night and/or the rain.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Anderson, Ulin S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for an invention relates to improvements in gates, and it is adapted especially for use in connection with the fences of farms, yards, or other enclosed spaces where such devices are applicable.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Eckerd, Samuel K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land-Breaking Plow (open access)

Land-Breaking Plow

Patent for a plow that also includes rotary drums. The rotary drums carried "sub-soiling and breaking plows; and the object is to provide plows which can be used to break the land to any desirable depth in any kind of soil without turning over the soil."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Reed, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Lighting System. (open access)

Telephone-Lighting System.

Patent for an invention as specified relates to new and useful improvements in telephone lighting systems for the purpose of providing lamps on subscribers' telephones arranged.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Boze, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector. (open access)

Tire-Protector.

Patent for new tire-protector, introducing new and useful improvements in pneumatic tire attachments.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: La Hatte, Albert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spike Holder (open access)

Spike Holder

Patent for an improvement in railroad spike holders to affordably reduce abrasion of the rail and to hold spikes into position, including illustrations.
Date: October 15, 1914
Creator: Kelly, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Seed Planter (open access)

Attachment for Seed Planter

Patent for a new attachment to seed planters.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Lusk, Eli M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a new churn, an improvement on the device shown in prior Patent Number 944,129 granted December 21, 1909.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Floyd, Ellis E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for cotton chopper attachment for wheeled cultivators that allowed the user to "cut or chop out portions of the cotton row so that the growth of the remaining cotton is facilitated."
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Arthur, George P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for an invention relates to cotton gins, and the principal object of this invention is to produce a cotton gin of small dimensions.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Morrison, Porter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for improvements in fan attachments for sewing-machines, which can be applied to the fly wheel of a sewing machine and generate air draft during operation of the machine. This invention is also durable and inexpensive to manufacture, as well as simple in construction and operation.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Warrell, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Support (open access)

Hose-Support

Patent for hose support with pivoted standard having a part which is adapted to support the nozzle of the hose, with illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Praeger, Ewald
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail. (open access)

Rail.

Patent for an invention relates to improvements in railway rails. The object is to provide a hollow rail having simple and cheap, but effective means for connecting the ends of the rails.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Rochel, Ken E.
System: The Portal to Texas History