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Full Text of the Game, Fish, and Oyster Laws of Texas, September 1913
Text of laws governing fishing and oyster culture, as well as regulation by the Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission. Index starts on page 73.
Date:
September 1, 1913
Creator:
Texas. Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine
Patent for a machine that adds numbers together using "key actuated accumulating wheels" to reach the desired sum, including illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1913
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Dumping Drag Harrow
Patent for an invention, including specifications, of an improved Self-Dumping Drag-Harrows mechanism. The device is capable of rotating or changing the angle of harrow teeth and body without the effort of the machine operator, facilitating faster movement and increased production. The mechanism in question is claimed by the applicant in addition to the competent parts arranged in such a fashion as to mimic the capabilities of the described device.
Date:
October 19, 1915
Creator:
Bales, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design of the Child's Quaker Bonnet
Patent for ornamental design bonnet manufactured out of the coarse fiber loofah.
Date:
September 26, 1913
Creator:
Schwenke, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmitting Telegraph Relay
Patent for Transmitting Telegraph Relay and it uses.
Date:
September 22, 1913
Creator:
Mains, Thane H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Distilling Petroleum.
Patent for apparatus and improving practices associated with distillation of petroleum as undistilled residues, as well as petroleum in other forms.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Van Dyke, John W.; Irish, William M.; Ellis, H. A. & Esterly, Edw. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Protector.
Patent for a protective device designed to keep an infant from sufficiently bending their arms and reaching their mouth, thereby preventing the child from potentially ingesting dangerous foreign articles.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Dodd, Jacob Everette
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gap Gate.
Patent for new and improved water gap gates to protect gates and barriers during natural interference, thereby preventing livestock injury.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Sattler, Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for insect traps, specifically for concentrating capture and extermination via placement over an ant hill.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Chandler, John T. & Harber, Joseph L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Cylinder.
Patent for well-cylinder improvements, specifically pumps with "special reference to a pump having a reciprocating piston and being adapted for use in a deep well, where the pump cylinder is difficult to access" (lines 11-14).
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Ligon, Arthur Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Rocking-Chairs
Patent for attachments for rocking chairs such as a rotary fan and platform for the rockers of the chair among other items including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Ryan, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Umbrella.
Patent for folding umbrella that consists of: improved construction, easy to open and close, as well as folding small upon collapse.
Date:
September 16, 1913
Creator:
Beaver, John Mitchell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Trull, Harvey L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bilge-Water Dishcharger
Patent for the importance of discharging bilge water from a boat.
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Langley, Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus to form bats, made of fibrous material, to be placed in the coverings or tickings to make mattresses. The apparatus works so that "the bat-forming fibrous material may be evenly distributed, and by which the mattress-forming operation may be expeditiously carried on" (lines 16-19). The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel & Haynes, Richard H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Levee.
Patent for reinforced levees with "means whereby the water will be positively prevented from seeping therethrough and weakening the levee" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 30, 1913
Creator:
Beazley, John Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for improvements to wrenches and monkey wrenches in particular, "improved construction and arrangement of adjustable jaw and improved means for locking the latter in its adjusted position and quickly releasing the same for readjustment" (lines 16-19) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Waters, Richard Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Knee-Pads" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 30, 1913
Creator:
Schmitt, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History