Range-Finder For Small-Arms. (open access)

Range-Finder For Small-Arms.

Patent for an improved Range-Finder for Small-Arms at an inexpensive price which can be attached at any rifle specifically designed and used in the United States Army.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Guild, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring (open access)

Spring

Patent for a spring "wherein all of the parts are removably connected to each other so as to be convenient and inexpensive to repair." (Line 11-14)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Avera, Lawrence A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail. (open access)

Rail.

Patent for an invention relates to improvements in railway rails. The object is to provide a hollow rail having simple and cheap, but effective means for connecting the ends of the rails.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Rochel, Ken E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector. (open access)

Tire-Protector.

Patent for new tire-protector, introducing new and useful improvements in pneumatic tire attachments.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: La Hatte, Albert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine

Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Clough, George Golden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Propelled Truck. (open access)

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
Topping Device for Sugar-Beets. (open access)

Topping Device for Sugar-Beets.

Patent for a machine to remove the tops of beets while they are still in the ground "without packing or injuring the beets and without removing more or less than the exact portion required" (lines 15-18).
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Sutton, Frank R.
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed Killing Car. (open access)

Weed Killing Car.

Patent for a weed killing car that runs on a railroad track. It distributes herbicide along the line of the railroad track.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Ortan, Ingomar F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy (open access)

Toy

Patent for a toy particularly adapted for the amusement of small children.
Date: May 29, 1914
Creator: Boyle, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combusion System (open access)

Internal Combusion System

Patent for new and useful Internal-Combustion Engine. Improves the provision of an engine which the cylinder is provided with a semi-spherical upper end, fr the rotatable reception of similar shaped power cylinder carrying shell. Specification of letter patent with illustration. Serial number 789.146
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Clough, George G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice (open access)

Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice

Patent for sterilizing and packaging rice by subjecting it to heat for twenty minutes or more. After this, the rice is sorted in a shaker and put into packaging while maintaining the air temperature. This prohibits the rice kernels from cracking.
Date: April 21, 1914
Creator: Davis, Waters Smith, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process For Expressing Fluid From Paraffin Compositions. (open access)

Process For Expressing Fluid From Paraffin Compositions.

Patent for using a cooling and heating process to assist with expressing fluids from paraffin compositions.
Date: January 20, 1914
Creator: Hansen, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History