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Animal-Trap
Patent for a cylinder shaped animal trap for small furry animals.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Fikes, Benjamin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dressing Device for Armless People
Patent for a dressing device that aids in dressing people with no arms by buttoning and unbuttoning shirts and adjusting neckties. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Corley, Quentin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improvement to churns. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel churn structure embodying a pair of oppositely reciprocating dashers mounted in a common churn receptacle or body and operated from a single crank wheel" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Burdeaux, Carey E. & Burdeaux, Charley W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Tying and Untying Packages.
Patent for a device to easily secure and release cords used to bind packages, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Galbraith, David G. & Galbraith, Nannie L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Oiling Device
Patent for a track oiling device that is operated by a train car. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Jones, Oscar W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Singer
Patent for a hair singer that contains the odor and smoke produced by singed hair.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Eldridge, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp
Patent for a guard rail clamp. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Akers, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roof-Jack
Patent for a roof jack that will hold up scaffolding.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Darnall, Benjamin P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Fastener
Patent for a fastener for wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Arnwine, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Explosive Compound
Patent for an explosive compound made of potassium chlorate, granulated sugar, and alcohol that is not unstable.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Dippel, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Rail Joint
Patent for a railroad rail-joint that does not require holes to be drilled in it.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
McAdams, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Signal.
Patent for a new Railroad-Signal invention. The Railroad-Signal functions as an improved device for alerting locomotive engineers that an upcoming bridge is broken, flooded, or on fire.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Waddle, Calvin H. & Roberston, Everett C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary and Method of Securing the Pipe-Gripped Device Thereon
Patent for a rotary drill and method of securing the pipe gripping device onto it to lessen the strain on the drill parts.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piston
Patent for a piston for use in pumps.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Frank, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
Egg Tester.
Patent for "an improved egg tester". (line 14)
Date:
March 25, 1913
Creator:
Smith, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine
Patent for improvements with the construction of flying machines to make them adaptable and more safe, including illustrations.
Date:
March 25, 1913
Creator:
Bell, Frank M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Device
Patent for a rail securing device which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date:
March 25, 1913
Creator:
Tritico, Leonard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Machine.
Patent for for the creation of a mechanism for the cotton chopper machine. The " provision of a cotton chopper machines comprising a wheel supported frame on which is arranged a particular form of revolving and reciprocating hoe mechanism." (lines 12-16)
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Penn, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk-Harrow Sharpener.
Patent for improvements to sharpening the disk harrows by attaching a disk sharpener onto the frame of the disk harrow so as the harrow is being drawn across the field, the rotating disk harrow comes into contact with the sharpener. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Lammon, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cord-Adjuster for Electric Lights.
Patent for extending and retracting wires that are used to connect a light bulb to power and an illustration.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Pritchett, Ponder L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History