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Cotton Ball Harvester
Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Monk, R. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.
Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
McFarland, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine.
Patent for a well-drilling machine with "novel and improved means for manipulating and actuating the drill cable" (lines 11-12), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Slaughter, George W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.
Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Gray, Charles B. & Teter, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs
Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Beyer, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a mechanism to lock a nut in place on a bolt that also automatically releases when a wrench is applied to turn the nut.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Edwards, Whitfield H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Propelled Truck.
Patent for a self-propelled truck that has free-turning movement, independent of the truck frame, and has a body that "may be low down and straight from end to end" (lines 29-30). This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Hoag, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap.
Patent for an improved fly-catching device.
Date:
May 4, 1914
Creator:
King, Wylie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine.
Patent for a new flying machine which uses compact, "artificially produced air currents" (lines 11-12), including illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1914
Creator:
Tiner, John Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History