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Safety Appliance
Patent for safety appliances and is primarily for when railroad cars encounter broken rails or leave the tracks completely.
Date:
October 28, 1914
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Shelf Bracket
Patent for a new shelf bracket "which is angularly adjustable, and has for its object the provision of a novel shelf bracket which is adapted to be secured upon a ladder, table, post, or other place, and which may be angularly adjusted so as to form means for supporting articles in a horizontal position." (Lines 14-19) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Selstad, Ingvald E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Point and Bolt for Belts.
Patent for an invention provides means for securing bolts to elevator belts.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Guffee, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Irrigation-Pipe.
Patent for an invention relates to an improved irrigation pipe which is to be used in connection with a sub-irrigation system.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Cooke, Joe R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf or Insert for Books
Patent for leaves and inserts in books and other paper documents. It is meant to "provide a printed sheet embodying certain novel features arranged so that it may be found in a book or catalogue as a leaf or page thereof or placed therein as an insert." (Lines 12-16)
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Seligson, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meter for Type-Writers.
Patent for the meter of the type-writer. It is to improve the meter of the type-writer. The meter enhances the mechanics of the inside of the typewriter, in particular how the push of a certain key reacts to another.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Winters, W. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Materials
Patent for sizing or classifying comminuted material, and to provide a new means for vibrating the endless belt or deck in order to impart the particles by gravity.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Lard Substitute
Patent for process of making lard substitute. "This invention relates to processes of producing culinary fats and has particular reference to a new and useful process of producing a lard substitute from cotton seed oil." (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Step-By-Step Elevator.
Patent for an invention relates to a new and useful step-by-step elevator. Its object is broadly stated to provide means for ascending or descending from one of a building to another.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Barrett, Eli B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Straight-Edge
Patent for straight edge especially adapted for paper hangers' use, including illustrations.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Penn, George William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads
Patent for an attachment for a bedstead in order to hold a tray. The invention allows a tray, or trays, to be held over a bed to hold food, drink, or other items closer to the occupant.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Beechie, Simon Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Lifter
Patent for an appliance which is for jacking up the valve spring of an internal combustion engine when it is needed to remove the valve for any purpose.
Date:
October 27, 1914
Creator:
Glasscock, Oscar T. & Phillips, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Seed Planter
Patent for a new attachment to seed planters.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Lusk, Eli M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a new churn, an improvement on the device shown in prior Patent Number 944,129 granted December 21, 1909.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Floyd, Ellis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for cotton chopper attachment for wheeled cultivators that allowed the user to "cut or chop out portions of the cotton row so that the growth of the remaining cotton is facilitated."
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Arthur, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an invention relates to cotton gins, and the principal object of this invention is to produce a cotton gin of small dimensions.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Morrison, Porter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines
Patent for improvements in fan attachments for sewing-machines, which can be applied to the fly wheel of a sewing machine and generate air draft during operation of the machine. This invention is also durable and inexpensive to manufacture, as well as simple in construction and operation.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Warrell, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Support
Patent for hose support with pivoted standard having a part which is adapted to support the nozzle of the hose, with illustrations.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Praeger, Ewald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Sash Fastener
Patent for a fastener of simple, reliable for locking a sash at any given point in its path-of-movement upon the window frame, without the use of springs or any other parts.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Shipman, John Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spike Holder
Patent for an improvement in railroad spike holders to affordably reduce abrasion of the rail and to hold spikes into position, including illustrations.
Date:
October 15, 1914
Creator:
Kelly, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Change-Speed Gearing
Patent for "power transmission for automobiles... provides a driving shaft and a driven shaft arranged in alignment, and a countershaft which parallels the driving and driven shafts and carries a set of gears that continuously mesh."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Relle, William A. So
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner
Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Gilbert, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-Wrench
Patent for an improvement in elevator wrenches. The device is meant to be used with rotary drilling machines for "supporting the drilling the drill pipe and for holding it from rotation during the releasing of the several joins of the pipe when it is necessary to withdraw the drill from the well hole."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Lebus, George Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History