Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles. (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Tongs (open access)

Adjustable Tongs

Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
Date: August 4, 1914
Creator: Beyer, Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit Brace. (open access)

Bit Brace.

Patent for a bit-brace with a crank arm which can be secured to the bit chuck and which has an adjustable hand, so the chuck may be rotated while the brace remains stationary.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Hall, Samuel N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm. (open access)

Burglar-Alarm.

Patent for a portable device that can be hung on a door knob and sound an alarm when the knob is turned, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Dick, Archie P., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cake Cloth Remover and Truck Loader. (open access)

Cake Cloth Remover and Truck Loader.

Patent for a cake cloth remover and truck loader which can mechanically remove the press cloth from cotton and linseed cakes and deliver the cakes for loading on a truck.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Lowry, Walter Jack
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Fender. (open access)

Car Fender.

Patent for a car fender "adapted to be fitted to an extremity of a street car, and adapted to undergo an automatic swinging motion when an obstacle is encountered, which motion will tend to sweep the obstacle from the track of the car" (lines 10-15). The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Russell, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Rule, Square, and Miter. (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Door and Gate Stop. (open access)

Combined Door and Gate Stop.

Patent for an improved stop for doors and gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Ford, John Owen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Ball Harvester (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Harvester.

Patent for a cotton harvesting machine, that is portable and contains a function to transfer cotton "from the picking spindles to a receptacle carried on the machine" (lines 29-30), including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Lovejoy, Daniel B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker. (open access)

Cotton Picker.

Patent for a cotton picker with a power-driven vacuum for picking cotton and delivering it to a receptacle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Cunningham, Matthew G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coverlet Holder (open access)

Coverlet Holder

Patent for "new and useful coverlet holder, and its object is to provide a device that will...support a coverlet or quilt at a slight elevation above a bed," (lines 8-11).
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Persson, G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

An die deutschen frauen!

Instructions to the women of Germany, urging them to provide assistance and support in the war effort. Text is in a medieval-style font.
Date: August 6, 1914
Creator: Auguste Viktoria, Empress, consort of William II, German Emperor, 1858-1921.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fly-Trap. (open access)

Fly-Trap.

Patent for a trap meant to aid in catching flies before they can make it into the home. Meant to be used in conjunction with doors that have screens in them and allowing for suitable ways for eliminating the pests from the trap.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Cruttenden, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine. (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Front Rigging for Riding-Saddles. (open access)

Front Rigging for Riding-Saddles.

Patent for a rigging that is especially adapted for a swell fork tree, including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Graves, George Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar. (open access)

Horse-Collar.

Patent for improving combined horse collars and hames. Mean to be more efficient in allowing the hames to be attached to a pnematic pad for faster removal.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Pate, Henry Doss
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Can Fastener for Ice Plants. (open access)

Ice-Can Fastener for Ice Plants.

Patent for an ice-can fastener that can be easily opened and closed, allowing water to freeze quickly in the can. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Drake, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Steam-Generator (open access)

Internal-Combustion Steam-Generator

Patent for Internal-Combustion Steam-Generator and it uses.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Sands, George H. Sands
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Involuting Drawing Instrument (open access)

Involuting Drawing Instrument

Patent for drawing instrument intended for drawing involuting curves. Includes illustration and instructions.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: McCaskill, Oscar E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Device (open access)

Lubricating Device

Patent for Lubricating Device and it uses.
Date: August 12, 1914
Creator: Clayton, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Rotating a Locomotive-Headlight. (open access)

Mechanism for Rotating a Locomotive-Headlight.

Patent for a "manually operated mechanism that will enable a locomotive engineer to rock the headlight about a pivotal access without leaving his cab" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1914
Creator: Teter, William E. & Gray, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mowing Machine (open access)

Mowing Machine

Patent for various refinements in mowing machines.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Caruthers, Edgar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mud Guard. (open access)

Mud Guard.

Patent for an attachable mud guard for any vehicle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Johnson, Tom L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History