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Dry-Cleaning Machine.
Patent for a dry cleaning machine that cleans using gasoline. The invention reduces the amount of gasoline used; keeps the gasoline clean while in use; provides easy placement and access of garments in the drum while in motion; improves the construction of the drum and its rubbing action on the garments; and supplies moisture to the machine to prevent the gasoline from igniting.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
White, Edward Young
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Beggs Independent (Beggs, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, January 2, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Beggs, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 2, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Beggs Independent (Beggs, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, January 9, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Beggs, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 9, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Beggs Independent (Beggs, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Beggs, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 16, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Beggs Independent (Beggs, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Beggs, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 23, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Beggs Independent (Beggs, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 30, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Beggs, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 30, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[William Leon Bryant Ranch Headquarters]
Photograph of the headquarters of the William Leon Bryant ranch (10 miles south of Midland), a two-story ranch house with a long front porch and a windmill and water tank to the left. A gutter system runs along the top of the roof into a tank in front of the porch (white pipes). Along the front of the house is a field of plants, where chickens are wandering. A small shed is to the right of the house.
Date:
1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for draft attachments for cultivators that would enable four to five horses to be used without having to alter the construction of conventional cultivators.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Poff, Blan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizers
Patent for a draft equalizer that permits either three horses to travel at one side of the beam and two at the other, or three horses at one side of the beam and one at the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 8, 1914
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Hanger.
Patent for a car door hanger that will take the weight of the door off the supporting rollers and the track and apply a braking action to the track that will prevent the door from unnecessarily shifting. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Kinard, Chester E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Device.
Patent for a drafting device for animals. It allows for the owner to place more animals on one side of the device than the other, but still allows the device to remain on the desired path.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Mitchell, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drapery Support and Form
Patent for a new kind of drapery system that keeps the drapes pleated neatly and allows drapes to open and close easily with metal fasteners.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Jantzen, Marius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Distributing Switch Mechanism for Electric Signs and Similar Devices
Patent for "improvements in distributing switch mechanism for electric signs and similar devices" (lines 5-8)
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Miller, Leonard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Harrow.
Patent for novel construction of a Disk Harrow consisting of a wheel-mounted frame which raises and lowers opposite sides independently and frame attached pivotally carrying a gang of harrow disks.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Emmert, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator
Patent for improvements to a disk cultivators which allows for the disks to hit the ground at various angles, thus improving cultivation,
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Atkinson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator
Patent for an improvement on disk cultivators. This makes it easier to arrange the wheels on the disk cultivators to be able to work on the soil on land of different shapes and sizes.
Date:
December 30, 1914
Creator:
Craddock, John E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Counter.
Patent for a grocery display counter that has drawers at the back and transparent containers that enable customers to view merchandise from front and side.
Date:
September 1, 1914
Creator:
Friedrich, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Lamp for Vehicles.
Patent for a device to turn the head of lamps on an automobile or similar vehicle with the turning of the steering wheel. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 8, 1914
Creator:
Baker, George R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disappearing Coffin Panel
Patent for improvements to disappearing coffin panels. This invention allows coffin interiors to be inspected without taking the coffin lid off. These disappearing coffin lids will not change the ornamental appearance of the coffin lid.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Fisher, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Automobile-Lamp
Patent for a new automobile lamp that turns in conjunction with the steering wheel and an apparatus that attaches to automobiles to cradle the head lamp and stop it from vibrating.
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Freeborn, Sidney Mills
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Automobile Lamp Support
Patent for an automobile lamp which directs light towards other automobiles.
Date:
October 6, 1914
Creator:
Bailey, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Farmhouse]
Photograph of a single story frame farmhouse, viewed from above. The house has a covered porch and is surrounded by a wooden fence. A man is standing outside the fence with his back to the photographer.
Date:
April 24, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Farmhouse]
Photograph of a single story frame farmhouse, viewed from above. The house has a covered porch and is surrounded by a wooden fence.
Date:
April 24, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Action Hair-Clipper.
Patent for an improved hair clipper design with both stationary and movable cutter blades.
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Appleman, Ernest E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History