Coin Holding Post Card (open access)

Coin Holding Post Card

Patent for a postcard that hold coins. This can be used to transport or collect coins.
Date: June 5, 1914
Creator: Bedinger, S.B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bow for Vehicle Tops (open access)

Folding Bow for Vehicle Tops

Patent for "improvements in folding bows for vehicle-tops...for removably mounting the top upon the body of the vehicle" (lines 5-22) including illustrations.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Bright, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Square. (open access)

Carpenter's Square.

Patent for a carpenter's square that uses an improved attachment "for laying off bevels at various angles" (lines 15-16).
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Buckland, Charles O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic air-brake for railway-cars. (open access)

Automatic air-brake for railway-cars.

Patent for an improved design of automatic air brakes for use in railway cars.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Canion, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE. (open access)

AUTOMATIC WEIGHING-SCALE.

Patent for an improved automatic scale that can weigh large measurements of crops, including illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1914
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing. (open access)

Gearing.

Patent for improved gear structures for motor vehicles that pull plows or other items across the ground or across roadways.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Coleman, Arthur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for improvements on traction-engines to make steering easier especially around short curves, and to decrease the amount of "dead weight" (line 21) of the machine overall.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Cox, Oscar McGruder
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Jack. (open access)

Vehicle-Jack.

Patent for a vehicle-jack that can raise and lower all of the supporting legs using a single lever, as well as lengthen and shorten the jack at will to adapt it to vehicles of different sizes.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Douglass, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Headlight (open access)

Automobile-Headlight

Patent for a headlight design that turns with the front wheels, allowing the driver to illuminate the road ahead whether driving straight or turning.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Fay, Peter J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shade-Adjuster. (open access)

Shade-Adjuster.

Patent for a new shade adjuster to allow for a fixed adjuster and detachable portion for attaching shade, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Fechner, Albert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disappearing Coffin Panel (open access)

Disappearing Coffin Panel

Patent for improvements to disappearing coffin panels. This invention allows coffin interiors to be inspected without taking the coffin lid off. These disappearing coffin lids will not change the ornamental appearance of the coffin lid.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Fisher, Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener (open access)

Hame-Fastener

Patent for improvements to a hame-fastener, specifically related to an easily made, inexpensively produced locking mechanism, including illustration.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Fowler, Alvah W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starter (open access)

Engine-Starter

Patent for an engine starter "operated by compressed air and which may be brought into operative connection with the fly wheel of the engine to be started, whereby said fly wheel is rotated."
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Fruehbeck, Edgar F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Cleaner for Bed-Springs. (open access)

Sanitary Cleaner for Bed-Springs.

Patent for a new invention to more effectively clean bed springs, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Gambill, Mary I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
HARROW. (open access)

HARROW.

Patent for new attachment for the foot of a harrow, including illustration.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Glover, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Equipment. (open access)

Telephone Equipment.

Patent for telephone equipment. The invention provides an easy to use attachment for automatic phones that illuminates the dial and only turns on while it is in use to facilitate the use of telephones in the dark.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Haralson, William Major & Pilkington, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator. (open access)

Incubator.

Patent for an incubator that automatically maintains at least a minimum temperature, with the option to set and maintain a higher temperature, with adjustment of temperature from outside the incubator. The incubator uses electric heat.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Hays, Ernest C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Hopple (open access)

Animal Hopple

Patent for certain new improvements in animal hopples. This device prevents animals from rearing up in the front when it is worn. The device consists of several plates and a collar with a connecting chain.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Hentschel, Andrew J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new cotton chopper allowing for continuous operation while raising or lowering the device and without requiring additional strain from draft animals during operation, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Hickson, Aaron L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Load-Transferring Apparatus. (open access)

Load-Transferring Apparatus.

Patent for load transferring apparatus, important for its innovations "applicable to the operation of unloading bulk material from boats or barges and of transferring said material to stationary bins or ships at sea" (lines 11-15).
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Hildebrand, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Cotton Gin. (open access)

Boll Cotton Gin.

Patent for an improved boll-cotton gin which gathers the cotton bolls without crushing them or intermingling the product with impurities by separating the seed cotton from the bolls and hulls.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Hopper, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revision of the American Harvest Mice: (Genus Reithrodontomys) (open access)

Revision of the American Harvest Mice: (Genus Reithrodontomys)

Discusses history, specimens, habits, economic status, food, and pelages of American harvest mice. Lists locations and provides a key to species and subspecies, and provides species descriptions.
Date: June 5, 1914
Creator: Howell, Arthur H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrogenating Oils, Fats, and Fatty Acids, &c. (open access)

Hydrogenating Oils, Fats, and Fatty Acids, &c.

Patent for improvements made to a hydrogenator of saturated oils, including illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Removing Coatings (open access)

Composition for Removing Coatings

Patent for a coating remover, made by mixing an alkali, an oxidizing agent, a solvent, and another chemical to prevent water evaporation.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome Nichols; Smith, Walter K. & Oliger, J. D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History