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Account Book (open access)

Account Book

Patent for an account book that is to be used "to receive in condensed form the dates and other particulars when sums are due to and from a person or firm are payable" (p. 2).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Goldberg, Samuel W. & Tillmann, Emanuel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
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 an improvement to the method of cleaning seeded cotton.
Date: November 12, 1889
Creator: ELAM, WILLIAM E.; THOMAS, ROBERT S.; CRAWFORD, DWIGHT H. & HARDWICK, SAUNIE W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Printing Device (open access)

Automatic Printing Device

Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Barradall, Norborne D. & Bradley, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Box for Locomotives. (open access)

Axle Box for Locomotives.

Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design "has relation to self-adjusting wedges for axle or driving boxes for locomotives, and has for its objects to produce a wedge that is controlled by a spring, which can be readily and easily adjusted for removing the pounding and lost motion between the axle-box and pedestal" (lines 11-17).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Carlson, Frank August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c. (open access)

Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c.

Patent for "a combination-tool seeking to provide a single implement so constructed and inscribed as to be useful to architects, draftsmen, millwrights, machinists, and all metal and wood workers, and which shall be light and convenient to carry and may be quickly adjusted to its different positions for use" (lines 8-14).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Meek, Alphonso Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Sheller (open access)

Corn Husker and Sheller

Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Whiting, Louis Rossell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter

Patent for "a durable and illexpensive planter which will serve to plant both corn and cotton in a perfect manner, and thus combine the two machines in one" (lines 11-14).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Letot, Clement
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator. (open access)

Cotton Elevator.

Patent for a new and improved cotton elevator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a frame, a suction-pipe having one end bent downward to receive the seed cotton and the other end terminating in an upwardly-extending dust flue, and a suction-fan having its suction and discharge at the periphery, of a perforated screening-cylinder, an endless belt which co-acts with the cylinder to deflect the cotton into the discharge pipe, and a blowing-fan in the latter for forcing the seed-cotton to the gins" (lines 48-58).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Swinnerton, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Brush (open access)

Cotton-Gin Brush

Patent for "a cheap, durable, efficient, and simple brush adapted for use in cotton-gins, the parts of which may readily be assembled or detached for purposes of construction, renewal, replacement, or repair" (lines 9-14).
Date: May 28, 1889
Creator: Swann, Warner Minor & Swann, Richard Tompkins
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "relates to that class of walking-cultivators or shovel-plows which are drawn by a single horse between two rows of plants, and which are frequently called 'double-shovel plows.' The leading object of the invention is to provide such a cultivator with two beams, each carrying a shovel, which beams are independently capable of vertical and lateral movements, whereby the operator can guide or lift the beams and shovels to avoid plants or obstacles" (lines 11-22).
Date: January 1, 1889
Creator: Jones, Fred B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1191: Curry, A.W. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1191: Curry, A.W. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Curry, A.W. (died January 13, 1889) and E.R. Curry (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-01-04/1889-05-30
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1199: Oats, C.D. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1199: Oats, C.D. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Oats, C.D. (died October 1, 1889) and Jennie Oaks (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-10-01/1889-10-12
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1207: Bennett, W.H. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1207: Bennett, W.H. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Bennett, W.H. (died January 10, 1889) and Caroline Bennett (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-01-10/1889-02-02
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1224: Harper, N.M. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1224: Harper, N.M. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Harper, N.M. (died August 15, 1889) and M.E. Harper (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-08-15/1889-12-11
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1233: Proffatt, Jane (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1233: Proffatt, Jane (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Proffatt, Jane (died March 17, 1889) and Ellen Proffatt (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-03-17/1889-07-16
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1235: Rock, Jno. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1235: Rock, Jno. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Rock, Jno. (died January 28, 1889) and J.L. Lanotte (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-01-31/1889-02-08
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1245: Jackson, Maud (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1245: Jackson, Maud (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Jackson, Maud (died January 28, 1889) and J.A. Jackson (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-01-28/1889-09-27
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1250: Piper, J.W. (Lunacy) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1250: Piper, J.W. (Lunacy)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Piper, J.W. (Lunacy) and E.C. Sweet (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-11-25/1890-09-04
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1253: Langston, Mary A. (Minor) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1253: Langston, Mary A. (Minor)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Langston, Mary A. (Minor) and T.J. Jackson (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-03-14/1890-12-20
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1254: Spalding, Esaac C. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1254: Spalding, Esaac C. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Spalding, Esaac C. (died March 7, 1890) and Lucinda Spalding (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-11-21/1890-03-07
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1255: Loughlin, Hannah (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1255: Loughlin, Hannah (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Loughlin, Hannah (Deceased) and W. Jno. W. Loughlin (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-02-15/1889-07-13
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1258: Langston, Mary Ann (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1258: Langston, Mary Ann (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Langston, Mary Ann (died May 4, 1889) and David Langston (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-05-04/1890-07-15
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1266: Kugler, Jno. (Deceased) (open access)

Dallas County Probate Case 1266: Kugler, Jno. (Deceased)

Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Kugler, Jno. (Deceased) and Wm. Waldstein (Executor or Guardian)
Date: 1889-02-14/1889-02-26
Creator: Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History