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Apparatus for Filling Bottles.
Patent for an "apparatus for filling bottles with crude petroleum, turpentine, and other liquids; and its object is to provide an improved construction which shall possess superior advantages with respect to efficiency in operation" (lines 14-19).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
McKay, Felix Early
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Vegetable Slicer and Grater.
Patent for a combined vegetable slicer and grater that consists of a main frame with vertical arms and bearings, a screw that attaches the arms to the frame, a shaft journaled with an annular flange into the bearings, a cylinder made of sheet metal that serves as knives, and spring tongues that regulate the thickness of the cut vegetables.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Harpst, Edgar S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anal Speculum.
Patent for a new and improved anal speculum. This design is "to so construct the several parts that there will be no rough or raised edges to interfere with its insertion in the anal passage; secondly, to so construct [the] improved speculum that it may be readily used as a bi-valve or dilator; thirdly, to form a locking-joint on the meeting edges of the shells forming the speculum, whereby the sections are prevented from overlapping each other to avoid pinching or injury to the walls of the anal passage while the instrument is being inserted; fourthly, to provide a plug for [the] improved speculum" (lines 17-29).
Date:
March 25, 1890
Creator:
Shuford, Quincy Adams
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Portrait of Richard Wesley Prater]
Portrait of Richard Wesley Prater with a thick beard and wearing a suit and tie. Richard was a farmer living in Garden Valley, Texas, at the time this photograph was taken. He and his wife, Margaret Almeda Harpole, had twelve children.
Date:
[1890..1900]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 8
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 4
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 11
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Troup 1899 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Troup in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1899
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 9
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 10
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 3
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 6
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 5
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tyler 1898 Sheet 7
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Tyler in Smith County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1898
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Pilot Coupling.
Patent for a locomotive-pilot coupling that can lift or elevate locomotive pilot or draw-bars, a cylinder that can turn in all directions depending on how the bars moves and is collecting to the motor fluid supply, a piston in the cylinder that connects the bar to the cylinder, a swinging jaw, and various other parts.
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Heidelberg, Samuel R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake.
Patent for improved vehicle brakes, and the "object is to arrange the brake shoes so that when applied they will bear on the wheels slightly below a point on a line drawn horizontally through the center of the wheel, whereby a greater brake power is obtained with less force exerted, and further, to so construct and arrange the brake shoes that during the backing of a team for any purpose the brakes will automatically release themselves and not bear upon the wheels to interfere with said backing." (Lines 21-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 7, 1895
Creator:
Christian, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Axle Point.
Patent for a vehicle-axle point that does not require repair. The "invention consists of a thimble that is to be shrunk, pressed, or fastened onto the axle by clips, bolts, or set-screws" (lines 20-22), so that the point does not need to be taken off.
Date:
July 16, 1895
Creator:
Ford, William Gardner
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a valve made up of a shell with a water inlet and a water outlet, a perforation for the valve stem, a gable-shaped seat made from hard metal that is fitted into the shell, a valve stem that works up and down the shell and with a shoulder, a valve with a hollow neck, a soft contact ring between the gable-shaped seat and the face of the valve, a guide and cap that fits in the shell, a stem nut, and a stuffing-box.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Speer, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Cleaning Out Nuts.
Patent for a tool for cleaning out internally-threaded apertures. This removes rust and dirt from screw-threads without damaging the threads, and is much less destructive than acid baths, heat, and screw-taps.
Date:
September 22, 1896
Creator:
Rall, Frederick A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surface Cattle Guard.
Patent for a new and improved surface cattle-guard. This design "compris[es] a series of parallel triangular bars tapered at their ends and provided with lateral perforated horizontal flanges, the plates to which said flanges are secured, the cross-tie supports, and the solid plank flooring upon which said ties rest, said flooring being some distance below the guard-bars" (lines 55-62).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Berry, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for a saddle-stirrup with springs on the bottom and a spring-catch on the top.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Long, Francis F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History