Resource Type

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Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Bassinger, Stephen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dallas Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dallas Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cleburne Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cleburne Sheet

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1891
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements to wrenches for removing nuts from vehicle-axles.
Date: August 23, 1898
Creator: Haines, Samuel Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a stretcher that connects wires in fence construction and repair. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1891
Creator: Wright, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Seat Spring. (open access)

Wagon-Seat Spring.

Patent for an elliptic seat spring on a wagon that is "arranged longitudinally on the front of the wagon-box, for the purpose of taking up the jar and jolt of wagons in passing over rough places in the roads" (lines 15-18). The springs will stay in place once installed.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Ingle, Jacob Odem, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for "improvements in wheels particularly designed for use on harvesters in heavy or muddy ground." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 19, 1891
Creator: Stroud, Wiley N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life-Insurance Table or Chart. (open access)

Life-Insurance Table or Chart.

Patent for a new and useful life-insurance table of chart.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Neal, Nathan P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stem Winding and Setting Watch. (open access)

Stem Winding and Setting Watch.

Patent for a new and useful winding and setting mechanism for watches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 1, 1898
Creator: Donnelly, Leo E. & Looney, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medicine - Glass. (open access)

Medicine - Glass.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in medicine-glasses.
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Jenkins, John Marshall
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Engine. (open access)

Traction-Engine.

Patent for a new and useful traction engine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Chappel, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Hanger. (open access)

Meat-Hanger.

Patent for a new and useful meat hanger, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1898
Creator: Couch, Lizzie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Carriage. (open access)

Plow-Carriage.

Patent for a new and useful plow carriage, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 1, 1898
Creator: Shipman, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor for Operating Churns. (open access)

Motor for Operating Churns.

Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design "compris[es] the clock-work-like mechanism, the right angle brake-lever engaging the spring-shaft wheel of said mechanism, and itself engaged by a pivoted hook on the supporting closure, the wheel on the driving-shaft having eccentrically connected thereto a stud engaged by a wrist-pin, the pitman loosely connected at one end to said wrist-pin and carrying at its opposite end a split socket provided with jaws having a binding-screw, and the dasher-staff having connection with said pitman-socket" (lines 90-101).
Date: March 18, 1890
Creator: Peggs, Jack
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow. (open access)

Sulky-Plow.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable sulky-plow "that will avoid the collection of trash, weeds, grass, &c., and thereby will not clog; that is designed to run upon the unplowed ground and therefore retain the plow in a steady position; to provide an improved adjusting means for plows whereby the same may be set to run shallow or deep; and to adapt the plow for successfully operating upon hillsides or rolling ground" (lines 12-20).
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Shipman, Samuel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Stand. (open access)

Switch-Stand.

Patent for a switch-stand for railroads with a vertically movable crank bar that is easily locked into position and a cam lever. The invention is operated more easily than other switch-stands.
Date: September 4, 1894
Creator: Driever, Benjiman F. & Mixon, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle for Stock. (open access)

Muzzle for Stock.

Patent for "weaning and grazing muzzles for stock, the object in view being to provide a muzzle adapted when the head of the animal is elevated to remain closed and when the head of the animal is lowered to open, and thereby permit grazing." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Wingrove, Franklin R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful washing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: Smith, James Knox Polk
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for washing machines with "roller-supporting frame for supporting the same either upon a horizontal surface or upon the top of a tub or receptacle in connection with which the machine is used" (lines 10-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Smith, Henry E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swing. (open access)

Swing.

Patent for a framed swing and churn attachment with seats, foot-rests, and spring lever, with illustrations.
Date: June 1, 1897
Creator: Dietz, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car. (open access)

Hand Car.

Patent for a new and improved handcar. This design "is to provide for hand-cars a motive power which will produce a high rate of speed and which will enable a hand-car to be propelled in either direction without necessitating turning the car end for end" (lines 9-14). It consists of "an opening in its platform disposed over one of the axles, a rectangular casing arranged over the opening, a drive-shaft journaled in the sides of the casing, a train of gears consisting of cog-wheels and pinions connecting the drive-shaft and the axle, and the crank-handles arranged at the ends of the drive-shaft" (lines 64-71).
Date: May 17, 1892
Creator: Parker, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow-Disk Sharpener. (open access)

Harrow-Disk Sharpener.

Patent for a device that puts disk harrows back into working condition after becoming worn. The invention consists of a socket, frames, a rod with an end-bearing, a handle, and a sharpener.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Ingle, Jacob Oden, Jr.; Stedman, Thomas R. & Lawson, Robert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History