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Subsoil Irrigating Implement
Patent for a farming irrigation cart which places the water beneath the soil using a plow.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
La Rue, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph system
Patent for telegraph system using keyboard operated remotely.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Edward, Claude M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tailor's-Goose Attachment.
Patent for a tailor's goose which provides a "depressible and detachable dampening means for the goose for supplying water to the dampening means".
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Talley, Thurmon H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Laying Machine
Patent for Tracking Laying machine.The combination of train of cars, sectional tramway, and extending along the sides of the car gives means for disconnecting the connection. The fore-mentioned applications improves tack laying machines.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Simpson, Charles, M. & Smith, Howard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Forming Concrete Foundations and the Like.
Patent for forming concrete foundations and piers by placing metal tubes into the ground and enveloping them with gravel.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine.
Patent for a traction engine with less weight for better fuel economy and power.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
McGruder Cox, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Puncture-Closing Compound.
Patent for closing the punctures or blow-outs in tires for automobiles or other vehicles using inflatable tires.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Watkins, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Tool
Patent for a Pneumatic Tool that is capable of operating automatically at a very high speed." (line 20)
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Townsend, Isaac W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoothing-Drag
Patent for improvements to a smoothing drag, a tool that smoothes the ground between rows of crops to prevent moisture loss from the soil.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Davison, Morgan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for a new and improved garden hoe used for weeding purposes. The improvement is related to, "...the handle of the implement being hollow" (lines 11-12) and able to receive a quantity of seed, and a mechanism that controls the delivery of seed to the hoe.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Etheridge, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow Tooth.
Patent for a new and improved harrow-tooth apparatus, which is attached to a tractor during farming. It will not injure the growing plants while still managing to break the crust of the furrow on each side of the row of plants, thus the improvement to the existing machinery allows the furrow crusts to be broken more effectually.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
Rutledge, Robert P. & Boland, Randsome G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Mixer
Patent for refinements in feed mixer technology.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Dixon, Elbert S. & Werner, Henry E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Soldering-Iron
Patent for an improved electric soldering iron, "to provide novel means for permitting the flow of solder and for shutting it off" (lines 18-19), including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Giffen, Frank M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cable Clamp.
Patent for Drill-Cable Clamp is for a device that clamps the rope to which the drill connects. The rope can be rotated, while connected to both the drill and the drilling machine securely.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Clayton, Robert Fentress
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Stirrup
Patent for various improvements in safety stirrups.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Sipes, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Frame
Patent for a transportable support frame for saws as teeth are sharpened or set, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Lawrence, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap.
Patent for a fly/insect trap with a unique construction that includes an upright cylindrical casing, a peripheral rib, a transparent funnel, and a mesh bait holder, including illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Buck, Daniel Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Car-Step
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Folding Car-Steps" (lines 5-6) to facilitate easier passenger boarding of rail cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Mayhew, Edwin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Picker and Pea Huller.
Patent for a new and improved Peanut Picker and Pea Huller, which picks peanuts from the vines and removes them without damaging the peanuts through beating or flailing. The invention also operates at a minimum amount of power while discharging the peanuts or peas free of dust.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
Berry, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Osteopathic Table
Patent for improvements in Osteopathic Tables by adding mechanical parts to facilitate ease of movement and manipulation of the human body for "correcting and curing physical irregularities of the spine and ribs" (lines 19-20), includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Sherwood, L. Walker
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker.
Patent for a nut cracking device.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Oil-Controlling Valve
Patent for a new fuel oil controlling valve for locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Sneddon, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a new cotton chopper design that improves the chopper blades' driving gear and the general construction of this type of device, includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Wheeler, Truzy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine.
Patent for a sewing machine "which will cut or trim the edges of two pieces of cloth during the time that said edges are being stitched together by the needle" (lines 15-18) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
Singer, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History