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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
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
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
Bumper for Log-Wagons.
Patent for an improved bumper for log wagons that is "mounted to roll on a wagon bolster and adapted to collapse below the carrying surface of the bolster" (lines 11-13); including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Jones, William F.
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
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for an improved cotton harvester that is lighter and cheaper to manufacture and "is capable of operating upon two rows of standing cotton and the same time, and to economically harvest the cotton and deliver the same into a suitable receptacle" (lines 16-20), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Upshaw, Lucius L.
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
Winding Drum
Patent for an improved winding drum. This uses a different type of adjustable cam that allows for less oscillation and better control of winding and unwinding the cable.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Voight, Phillip H. & Kuehne, Oscar C
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for making Water and Oil Screens.
Patent for a new way of making forming "a wire screening surface about a perforated pipe" (lines 67-68) with illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Kreiter, Richard F.; Post, Ernest S.; Roco, Albert L. & Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Filter.
Patent for a pump filter, designed for double acting air pumps, that prevents the passage of foreign matter (oil, dust, dirt) from the pump outlet.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Miles, Ross E.
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
Harrow Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for Harrow Attachment for Cultivators to replace shovels or blades.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Lancaster, Harris E.
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
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
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