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Blow-Out Guard (open access)

Blow-Out Guard

Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Holloman, Alfred A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for an improvement to churns; this invention provides a churn in which milk is thoroughly agitated via the opposite rotation of two dashers, and will simultaneously allow for observation of the churning operation via a glass vessel.
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Samuel C.M. Anderson
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supporting-Shelf. (open access)

Supporting-Shelf.

Patent for a supporting shelf specifically for clocks. The supporting shelf keeps the clock balanced.
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: McDonald, John A..
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Appliance (open access)

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

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Point and Bolt for Belts. (open access)

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

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leaf or Insert for Books (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meter for Type-Writers. (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Materials (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Lard Substitute (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Step-By-Step Elevator. (open access)

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

Straight-Edge

Patent for straight edge especially adapted for paper hangers' use, including illustrations.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Penn, George William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Lifter (open access)

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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Seed Planter (open access)

Attachment for Seed Planter

Patent for a new attachment to seed planters.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Lusk, Eli M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

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

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

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

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

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
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History