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Apparatus for Extracting Honey
Patent for an apparatus for extracting honey. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Avant, Leonidas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters
Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Agee, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Wilson County
Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Wilson County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Wilson County, Texas.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Lyman, W. S. & Schroeder, Frank C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Building Implement
Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Hall, Ed Francis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Mechanism
Patent for a variable speed mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Doebbeling, Almond J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tying Mechanism for Harvesters
Patent for a tying mechanism for harvesters. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Tilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tank.
Patent for improvements in the support structure wooden or metal tanks (portable or permanent) though sets of internal support composed of uprights, diagonal brace-rods, transversely curved plates, and tension rods, with descriptions of the structure and illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Clayton, Nicholas J., Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine
Patent for a washing machine. This invention has a basket for holding clothes contained within a tub with hot soapy water. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Hamilton, Walter Scott & Williams, James Rozier
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Rest for Pianos.
Patent for a music rest for pianos, which attaches to the piano case and can be adjusted to different heights.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail pouch
Patent for new and improved mail pouch, with particular emphasis on the top locking mechanism.
Date:
June 9, 1900
Creator:
Tabler, Jasper Newton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester
Patent for a spark arrester. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Bender, Rudolf A. & Schomburg, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension Table
Patent for an extension table employed for dining that can be easily and quickly adjusted for different lengths. "When the table is closed or adjusted to its minimum length the leaves will be contained in the body of the table instead of having to be removed therefrom, as is usual" (lines 15-19) illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Palladino, Gaetano
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Stay
Patent for wire fence stay that is used for securing wire lines.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Senour, Charles Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner
Patent for a gin-saw cleaner. The invention "relates to gin-saw cleansers and tooth-straighteners, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which will be simple of construction, efficient in operation, and one in which the saw-engaging knives or members may be simultaneously adjusted to regulate them for operation upon saws which are spaced apart a greater or lesser distance" (lines 8-16) illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Stanifer, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine Attachment
Patent for a sewing machine attachment that "aims to provide an attachment for use in connection with any sewing machine combining means for hemming, tucking, and braiding, the several parts being adjustable to admit of making hems any width and tucks any size and distance apart, the device being simple and comprising a minimum number of parts" (lines 9-16). Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Fain, Eliza Jane
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manual Motor for Churns
Patent for a manual motor for churns. The invention is to "provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one of great strength and durability capable of enabling a churndasher to be rapidly reciprocated, whereby butter is quickly produced" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Faubion, Thomas Daniel Arnold
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay or Cotton Press
Patent for a hay or cotton press. "The invention consists, broadly stated, in a press mounted on wheels, adapting it to be hauled along a windrow in position to receive hay picked up with a fork by a man walking on the windrow side of the press." (lines 10-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Hamilton, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press
Patent for a hay press as it "relates to certain improvements in hay-presses, and has for its principal object to improve the construction of the power-head and pitman connection" (lines 7-10). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Dixon, Albert S. & Schneider, Jacob P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Excavating Apparatus
Patent for an "improved excavating apparatus adopted for use in cleaning out tanks, for excavating cellars, for dredging streams, and for other similar purposes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed." (line 9-14)
Date:
August 22, 1902
Creator:
Bump, James G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hook.
Patent for a hook that folds up for use in small spaces on garments.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Havens, Berthal Dale-Owen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electro Automatic Advertising Machine
Patent for electro-automatic advertising machine. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Myers, Clarence & Buchard, Alonzo H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street-Pavement
Patent for a street paving material made from limestone, limestone dust, and crude oil with layers of crushed rock in between which is waterproof and durable.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Walsh, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Case.
Patent for a piano case, which allows the lid to be put back far enough to allow a music stand to rest easily on it on the upright position and which has a new, non-box-like design.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History