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Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 1582, Ed. 1 Monday, July 18, 1887
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 18, 1887
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 649, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1884
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 18, 1884
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Beeville Bee (Beeville, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Beeville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 18, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 151, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1889
Daily newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 18, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer.
Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Binkley, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snow Plow.
Patent for a new and improved snow plow. This design "is to facilitate the removal of snow from railway-tracks, and also to prevent the removed snow from being blown back upon the track" (lines 20-23).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Grove, David E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head Protector.
Patent for a new and improved head protector. This design utilizes a wire "skeleton mask" and corresponding cap that holds the former in place. These are "designed to be covered with netting and to be worn as a protection against mosquitoes and other poisonous insects, and which is also applicable to bee-keepers' use, thrashers, gunners, railroad brakemen, &c." (lines 14-19).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Turner, Robert W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Rail Joint.
Patent for a new and improved rail joint for railroads. This design "relates to railroad-rail joints; and it has for its object to construct, without the use of bolts, nuts, and fish-plates, a joint which shall be cheap, durable, and possessed of great strength and rigidity" (lines 19-23).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Tatum, Paul
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer.
Patent for an improved double tree adapted to be used without single-trees designed to equalize the draft in case on horse gets ahead of the other in a draft team.
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C. & Robertson, Alexander W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "consists in the combination of the bevel-edged boards with the saws and brush, so as to facilitate the transfer of the cotton from the saws to the arc-shaped support consisting of the bevel-edged boards set at a short distance apart, and to thus straighten the fiber or lint. This gives the lint cotton a finer and lighter appearance, causing a ready allowance of a considerable addition to the usual price" (lines 8-17).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Van Zandt, Jacob
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle tree
Patent for an improvement in saddle trees
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Still, Henry Clay & Still, Robert Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion.
Patent for a new and improved device for converting reciprocating into rotary motion. This design "has for its object to provide means whereby rotary motion may be converted into reciprocating motion or reciprocating motion into rotary motion without the intervention of cranks; and to this end it consists in a mutilated gear pinion secured to a rotating shaft and provided with suitable cams, whereby the gear-teeth upon the pinion are caused to engage with gear-teeth upon a yoke embracing said pinion" (lines 23-32).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Richardson, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder.
Patent for a new and improved bag holder. This design "consists mainly in the combination of certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the diameter of the bag, with certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the height of the bag" (lines 17-22).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Holekamp, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History