Automatic Hook for Artificial Arms (open access)

Automatic Hook for Artificial Arms

Patent for an automatic hook for artificial arms that allows a pen or pencil to be held.
Date: June 18, 1912
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks (open access)

Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks

Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: De Long, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device (open access)

Amusement Device

Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
Date: August 13, 1912
Creator: Dougherty, James P. & Beeman, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Door Lock (open access)

Sliding Door Lock

Patent for a sliding door lock. Illustration included.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Ewing, Harry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filing-Cabinet Unit (open access)

Filing-Cabinet Unit

Patent for a filing cabinet unit. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Cabinet. (open access)

Mailing-Cabinet.

Patent for a mailing cabinet, which will assist the mail service to better aid the distribution of the mail with a larger space to sort.
Date: February 6, 1912
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cover for Pass-Books (open access)

Cover for Pass-Books

Patent for a cover for a passbook with a transparent cover to view the book.
Date: July 29, 1912
Creator: Exline, Marcus Page
System: The Portal to Texas History
Educational Device (open access)

Educational Device

Patent for a combined folding desk, blackboard, scroll, and map cabinet to be used for educational purposes. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bookcase (open access)

Folding Bookcase

Patent for a folding bookcase that can be manufactured with any number of shelves.
Date: July 9, 1912
Creator: Fanning, Sam H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge Seat Cutter (open access)

Hinge Seat Cutter

Patent for as hinge seat cutter. This device is designed to cut apertures so that mounted windows and door will be flush. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Franklin, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw. (open access)

Gin-Saw.

Patent for a saw toothed drums or cylinders (such as used for gins that denude cotton seeds).
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Garner, James C. & Reynolds, Charles S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner (open access)

Oil-Burner

Patent for an oil burner to be used in cement kilns. Illustrations included.
Date: July 16, 1912
Creator: Griffiths, Leonard L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm (open access)

Burglar-Alarm

Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Halstead, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for a rotary engine with a new form of gates and pistons.
Date: April 16, 1912
Creator: Harmon, Frank P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Fluid-Compressor (open access)

Hydraulic Fluid-Compressor

Patent for a hydraulic fluid compressor for gas and air compressors.
Date: May 21, 1912
Creator: Hawkins, Alda F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suspenders (open access)

Suspenders

Patent for drawer suspenders. Illustrations included.
Date: July 16, 1912
Creator: Hengy, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for chilling and whitening lard compounds that produces stiffer lard.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie (open access)

Railway-Tie

Patent for an improved railway tie made of metal and wood blocks.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Kelly, Orson N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Target-Controlled Roundabouts (open access)

Improvements in Target-Controlled Roundabouts

Patent for a target-controlled roundabout comprised of a "revoluble member arranged to be operated by a plunger" (lines 11-12).
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Lero, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Molding-Machine (open access)

Molding-Machine

Patent for a molding machine for forming casting molds. Illustrations included.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: MacKay, Hugh, of Dallas, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester (open access)

Cotton Harvester

Patent for a cotton harvester. This invention is designed to spare cotton pickers the physical demands from stooping and back pains. The design allows pickers to sit on running boards along small trucks drawn behind the wagon. Illustration included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Marshel, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller (open access)

Cotton Stalk Puller

Patent for a cotton stalk puller. This invention is a "wheeled farm implement that may be drawn by horse power along a row of cotton stalks and will pull the stalks out of the ground as it passes over them" (line 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date: October 29, 1912
Creator: Marshel, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing Device (open access)

Automatic Computing Device

Patent for an automatic computing device that can calculate the price of goods and be used to take inventory of stock.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Miracle, Meredith W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sound Record Tablet (open access)

Sound Record Tablet

Patent for a sound record tablet. This device is designed to allow "sound grooves may be in the form of a volute and in which space for a label is provided" (line 11-13). Illustration included.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Moses, Jacob B.
System: The Portal to Texas History