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A Report of Work Done in the Washington Laboratory During the Fiscal Year 1883-84
A report about the rocks, clays, and other geologic sediments analyzed by the Washington laboratory during 1883 to 1884.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Clarke, F. W. & Chatard, T. M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On the Cambrian Faunas of North America Preliminary Studies
A report about the fauna of the Saint John Formation contained in the Hartt Collection.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Walcott, Charles Doolittle
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On Secondary Enlargements of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks
A report about quartz fragments and genesis of qartzites. Sandstones are described that have grains which are bounded externally by crystalline faces. The quartz coatings of these grains are in perfect "optical and crystalline continuity" with the interior fragments.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Irving, R. D. & Van Hise, C. R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved combined planter and cultivator. This design has for its object "to facilitate the planting of seed and the cultivating of plants, and to promote convenience in adjusting the machines for the different kinds of work. The invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 21-27).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Shannon, Thomas Brandon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "to secure an equal wear of the teeth of the stationary and the revolving cutter-plates . . . whereby the instrument may be run double the usual time before it is necessary to grind the plates, and enabling the tool to be used as a right or a left hand cutter; also, to render the cutters separable without arresting the motion of the rotary blade . . . also, to provide means whereby the rotation of the cutter may be reversed . . . finally, to provide a simple device for throwing the miter-gears into and out of mesh" (lines 15-29).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "relates to certain improvements in portable and stationary baling-presses more especially designed for baling hay; and the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 6-10).
Date:
December 16, 1884
Creator:
Hampton, John Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ventilator and Chimney.
Patent for a new and improved combined ventilator and chimney. This design consists in "[a] combined ventilator and chimney . . . composed of a central flue surrounded by an annular air-chamber, in the top and bottom of which are openings, flange, and case, provided with a water-shed or apron, in combination with [a] section consisting of a flue or chimney, having its lower end inserted in the flue of the ventilator and extending therefrom above the roof, and covered with a cap or caps, and its juncture with the ventilator protected by a downward-projecting hood" (lines 38-49).
Date:
January 15, 1884
Creator:
Matthews, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved automatic car brake. This design "consists, first, in the combination of the draw-heads . . . connecting-rods . . . and a partially-rotating shaft provided with suitable slotted cams, which cams are attached to the brake-beams, so that when the draw-heads are forced inward or drawn out the brakes will move out of contact with the wheels; second, in the combination, with the slotted cams and a mechanism for moving them, of the rods which are connected thereto, and which pass through the brake-beams, the sliding sleeves, the springs, and the nuts" (lines 13-27).
Date:
January 22, 1884
Creator:
Miller, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination of sill having uprights or fulcrums, levers mounted upon the latter, a follow-block connected to the inner ends of said levers by loose joints, a vertically-sliding follower, rods connecting the outer ends of said follower with the outer ends of the levers, and mechanism for operating the follower . . . the follower moving vertically above the sill, levers pivoted to uprights or fulcrums upon the sill, and having inner beveled ends, a follow-block loosely jointed between the inner ends of said levers" (lines 64-77).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Robburts, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Marking Brush.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-marking brush. This design has for one of its objects "is to construct a brush that will permit the trimming down of the bristles at an angle without injuring or damaging the brush. . . . In marking cotton-bales and the like a brush with an inclined edge is desirable" (lines 16-21).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Pfeifer, Gustav
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "consist[s] in the fixed staff or upright having pulley, bent rotary vane having the opening, and adapted for the display of advertisements, inside [the] bent rotary vane, and the governor adapted to regulate automatically the speed at which the vanes are to revolve" (lines 68-80).
Date:
February 19, 1884
Creator:
Carly, John Wesly
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Sheller.
Patent for a new and improved corn sheller. This design "comprises a double-shelling surface of peculiar construction in one plate or bed-piece, whereby a corn-sheller having but little weight is produced, which shall be capable of shelling either one ear of corn, or, by using both hands, two ears of corn at the same time, and which shall do its work with increased ease, ready clearance for the shelled corn, and protection, when using both hands, against their striking each other" (lines 12-21).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Matthews, Luther
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aquarium.
Patent for an ornamental suspension aquarium with easily removed plug or stopper for refreshing the water with illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements to a machine that compresses bolts of cloth or waste into compact bales for shipment.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar U. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti Friction Journal.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction journal. This design "relates to anti-friction devices adapted especially for hoisting pulleys; and it has for its object to provide a device in which the shaft or axis of the main hoisting-pulley shall be supported or mounted upon the peripheries of wheels of a considerable diameter as compared with that of the hoisting-pulley, whereby the friction may be lessened to the greatest possible extent" (lines 24-32).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Taylor, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Press.
Patent for "an improved construction of hydraulic baling-presses, whereby it is designed to provide simple and more durable and reliable presses of this kind than any now in use" (lines 8-12).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Satchel and Pillow.
Patent for a new and improved combined satchel and pillow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a valise or satchel, of an airbag permanently incorporated in the same to form one of the sides thereof, and having a mouthpiece upon the exterior of the valise, whereby the bag may be inflated without opening the valise" (lines 62-67).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Kiam, Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hay Press and Horse Power.
Patent for a combined hay-press and horse-power with illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Randle, William, Sr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer
Patent for device for planting, fertilizing, and cultivating seed and grain.
Date:
April 1, 1884
Creator:
Pickle, William Chesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 11, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 693.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 11, In Three Parts. Part 2, Reports, etc.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 995.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 10, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 643.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History