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
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
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
Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

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
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
Drill. (open access)

Drill.

Patent for
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Weathersby, Fred Richard
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
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
DOOR-HANGER. (open access)

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
Animal Trap. (open access)

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
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
Bale-Tie. (open access)

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
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
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
Boring Tool. (open access)

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
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
Cotton Seed Linter (open access)

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
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
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
Disinfecting Apparatus (open access)

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
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
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
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
Turnstile. (open access)

Turnstile.

Patent for a new turnstile design for use in train cars, "especially adapted for use in so called " pay-as-you-enter " cars." (lines 11-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Lohrberg, Leopold W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History