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Automatic Gun Firing Mechanism.
Patent for an automatic gun firing mechanism intended to protect gardens, orchards, and fields by scaring off birds and other animals that destroy crops through automatic discharge of a firearm at predetermined intervals.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Steinocher, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Mail Crane.
Patent for an automatic mail-crane that is simple, durable, and inexpensive.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Lane, Ernest R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Plow-Foot.
Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date:
July 29, 1913
Creator:
Dugger, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wrench
Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Clay, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Body.
Patent for an automobile body that is designed for people who enjoy doing outdoor activities. Compares this design to the current design of what is called "touring cars."
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Saxon, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Pump
Patent for an automobile tire pump that can be used with any size tire.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Goeth, Richard Anton; Rodgers, Robert B. & Dittmar, John Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Wheel
Patent for a type of wheel called a spring wheel, and will allow for simple and efficient means of producing a spoke, and eliminate the need for an inflated tire when attaching the spoke, including illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1913
Creator:
Lewis, Alfred M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ax Handle
Patent for an ax handle. The handle is a tubular handle which also includes hingedly connected part fitting into the eye of the ax head. Illustration included.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Burks, William Edward
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
Badge.
Patent for a badge that is to be pinned or worn upon the coat or other garment with the representation of the human eye that is capable of being winked or moved. The bade is to be used for advertising, humor or salutations, included illustration.
Date:
December 30, 1913
Creator:
Connor, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder
Patent for a bag holder. This invention is made of four frame sections that fold and when extended supports the bag. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Devini, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Holder.
Patent for a paper bag holder that can employ one or more units, of various sizes, to hold paper bags of practically all sizes. It holds the bags in place and makes them readily removable when needed. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
August 12, 1913
Creator:
Ott, Samuel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bailing-Press
Patent for improvements in bailing presses, for baling cotton and other materials and substances. Baling press have strong and durable organization devices and mechanisms for feeding and pressing cotton.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a bale tie that can withstand strain on the side of the band. The text describes the different parts of the bale tie and how it differs from ones currently used.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Franz, Ezra A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle.
Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
McFarland, Frank Hays
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle.
Patent for a new bale tie buckle made of wire material "in which the buckle is closed by the strain or stress on the bale tie" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
August 19, 1913
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tile
Patent for a bale tie for cotton bales.
Date:
April 8, 1913
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for improvements to baling presses for double bale type presses. It includes elevators and a reciprocating press head.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Potter, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses by making baling-presses into a hand held portable press which includes a head block that could be released easily and quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 7, 1913
Creator:
Nicholas, Joseph W.
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
Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.
Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1913
Creator:
Alsup, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bean Growing in Eastern Washington and Oregon, and Northern Idaho
Report discussing practices used in growing beans in eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and northern Idaho. Topics discussed include spring and fall plowing, harvesting, marketing, and varieties of beans grown.
Date:
1913
Creator:
Fluharty, Lee W.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beet Harvesting Machine
Patent for a machine that will harvest beets with only two operatives and not made of "heavy construction." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Stone, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bibliography of State Participation in the Civil War, 1861-1866
Alphabetical list of states that participated in the Civil War including reports published, laws enacted, and military organizations from the state. Includes an appendix with additional listings, starting on page 929.
Date:
1913
Creator:
United States. War Department. Library.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History