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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
Animal Trap.
Patent for an improved and simplified trap where "a large number of rats can be caught in succession before the trap has to be emptied, as the trap door arrangement is automatic in regard to resetting" (lines 20-24).
Date:
June 23, 1914
Creator:
Willard, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators
Patent for an improvement in attachments for cultivators, including illustrations.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Leischner, Gotthilf
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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
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
Bale-Tie.
Patent for bale ties that "have the securing members permanently connected" (lines 12-13) and do not have projecting ends that could damage cotton bales or other fibrous materials.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
McFarland, Frank H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Boring Tool.
Patent for a new boring tool used for digging post holes, shallow wells, and for like purposes. It has a pilot bit and a cutting disk that carries the loosened dirt from the bore to the surface.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Keenan, Michael J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
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
Cotton Seed Linter
Patent for "improvements in cotton-seed linters" (Lines 5-6) for improving efficiency of "separating the the lint from motes and other dirt and trash" (lines 15-16) including illustrations.
Date:
June 30, 1914
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Disinfecting Apparatus
Patent for an improved bottle for the purposes of carefully applying disinfecting fluid. The patent describes and illustrates a bottle that can be sold as-is, with an apparatus that releases the liquid drop by drop to prevent waste.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Peck, Walter H. & Alford, L. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
DOOR-HANGER.
Patent for improvements to the door hanger, specifically aimed at car doors, including illustrations.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Mason, Charles O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for draft attachments for cultivators that would enable four to five horses to be used without having to alter the construction of conventional cultivators.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Poff, Blan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill.
Patent for
Date:
June 30, 1914
Creator:
Weathersby, Fred Richard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Cleaning Machine.
Patent for a dry cleaning machine that cleans using gasoline. The invention reduces the amount of gasoline used; keeps the gasoline clean while in use; provides easy placement and access of garments in the drum while in motion; improves the construction of the drum and its rubbing action on the garments; and supplies moisture to the machine to prevent the gasoline from igniting.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
White, Edward Young
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Feeding Mechanism For Printing Press
Patent for "an improved mechanism whereby the paper or other material is automatically fed to the press in web or continuous form and automatically cut off in the desired lengths as it passes from the feeding mechanism" (lines 23-26).
Date:
June 2, 1914
Creator:
Prescott, Sitwell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Game Apparatus.
Patent for a new game apparatus that can be playing indoors or outdoors and made in both large and small sizes "in which the elements, of chance, skill, and endurance constitute important factors in the successful playing of said game." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 2, 1914
Creator:
Schuler, Joseph & Overbeck, Harry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History