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Clevis. (open access)

Clevis.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Taylor, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine. (open access)

Compound Engine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in compound engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1899
Creator: Johnson, Willie H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Catching Waste Products From Lead, Silver, or Other Smelters. (open access)

Apparatus for Catching Waste Products From Lead, Silver, or Other Smelters.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in apparatus for "catching the waste products from lead, silver , or other smelters" (line 5 - 7).
Date: June 6, 1899
Creator: Sergeant, Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Opener. (open access)

Bale-Tie Opener.

Patent for "a simple and durable device by means of which the buckles or securing devices on cotton-bale ties or bands may be readily opened and the band removed from the bale without destroying the buckle or the band, so that they may be again used." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 1, 1897
Creator: Gaskill, Clinton R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller. (open access)

Corn-Sheller.

Patent for improvements in corn-shellers in which it would be easily-operated and consists of “a semi-cylindrical trough having serrations upon the sides and bottom thereof, so that upon pushing the ear back and forth in the trough the corn will be scraped off.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Townsley, Christopher C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Elam, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton that “use a pneumatic tube, through which cotton is drawn by an exhaust-current.” (Lines17-19) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Thomas, Robert S.; Hardwick, Saunie W. & Elam, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Tread. (open access)

Animal-Tread.

Patent for improvements in animal-treads when “animal is placed in the tread, the single or double tree being attached to the arm c’, and thus in addition to his weight he will have his strength to operate the tread. The function of the rope and weight is to keep the traces and tree from under the animal’s feet in case he should slack his speed, and thus prevent his tripping.” (Lines 59-66) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Bevil, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjusting Device for Compressing-Rolls. (open access)

Adjusting Device for Compressing-Rolls.

Patent for adjusting devices for compressing rolls which “employed for compressing into a continuous thin sheet cotton fiber; and the objects in view are to provide a simple and convenient means for binding the rolls in contact, and when so bound to prevent any undesired yielding.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: June 16, 1891
Creator: Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion. (open access)

Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.

Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Stokey, David Gray
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Synopsis of the Weasels of North America (open access)

Synopsis of the Weasels of North America

Classification of the one ferret and 22 weasel species and subspecies, with 11 described for the first time.
Date: June 30, 1896
Creator: Merriam, C. Hart
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton seed and its products. (open access)

Cotton seed and its products.

Discusses cottonseed and its uses. Describes methods of manufacturing cottonseed products.
Date: June 1896
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 27, 1899
Creator: Yankee, Elmer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a wrench that can be adjusted without the use of screws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Thomas, Theodore G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash. (open access)

Window-Sash.

Patent for an improved window sash that is meant to "provide means for securing a sash in its frame whereby it is capable of free movement, and at the same time is dust-proof, wind-proof, rain-proof, and snow-proof" (lines 9-13). The sash does not rattle and cannot be displaced from the outside.
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Roach, George W. & Ralph, Sidney L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and efficient wire stretcher that aids in fence-building, tightening loose wires, cutting wires, and tying broken wires. The stretcher is similar in appearance to a wrench that can be taken apart in order to properly utilize the tool.
Date: June 13, 1893
Creator: McKinney, John Wilson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Womb-Battery. (open access)

Womb-Battery.

Patent for a womb-battery that has "an advantageous electrical or galvanic device adapted, when placed in the womb of a patient where it will be subject to the chemical action of the mucous fluid, to develop a mild electric action and thereby stimulate the generative organs and promote the cure of the various diseases peculiar to the female sex" (lines 13-20). It also is not easily displaced and is easily adjusted.
Date: June 5, 1894
Creator: Petit, Julius C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire stretchers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Smith, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vibrating Churn. (open access)

Vibrating Churn.

Patent for improvements in vibrating churns in which the dasher is given a rapid rotary vibrating movement and with but very little exertion to the operator. (Lines 30-32) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Miller, Luther Alison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine (open access)

Type-Writing Machine

Patent for improvements to typewriting machines with the aim of providing "a machine of simple and durable construction, capable of use for the ordinary purposes to which type-writers are applied, but especially adapted and designed for typewriting upon blank books, thereby facilitating the making of official records and producing records that are more legible and compact than it is possible to obtain by handwriting" (lines 11-18).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Borden, William J. & Johnson, Jahu W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement. (open access)

Turping Implement.

Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date: June 21, 1892
Creator: Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Step. (open access)

Vehicle Step.

Patent for a foldaway step that can be mounted on the side of a vehicle.
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Walton, Sam H. & Smith, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for an improved washing machine that is meant to "provide a machine which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic in construction, and wherein clothes may be washed expeditiously and conveniently and without injury thereto" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 6, 1893
Creator: Jones, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck for Railway-Carriages. (open access)

Truck for Railway-Carriages.

Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History