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Improvement in Clevises
Patent for an adjustable clevis, consisting of a hinged loop and an eyebolt.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.
Patent for improvement in cotton-hoes for the purpose of saving time when spacing and thinning cotton plants by providing an angular handle with bent arms that can be attached to the back of the hoes. The hoe is made up with three separate cutters with spaces in between to allow young plants equally spaced in each row. The middle cutter can be removed when second thinning is needed to avoid injuring the plants. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picker and Cleaner.
Patent for improvements in cotton-picker and cleaner by using rotary breakers combined with fixed breakers to break the branches and outer coverings of the cotton in the bolls. The cotton then passes through an “inclined-way” where the rotary breakers are spirally-arranged on a concentric cylinder to carry the cotton out of the cleaner. (Lines 69-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plow and Planter
Patent for improvements to cotton-plows and planters.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows
Patent an improved cotton-plow with curved flanges, with illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
Patent for improvement in cotton-plows by making the plow blades curved for the purpose of breaking up the land to prevent the plow from clogging. (Lines 27-30) The plow can break up the soil and laying off seed-furrows simply by reversing and removing the blades to a different position of the frame. (Lines 59-60) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk and Cane-Puller.
Patent for improvement in stalk puller by using “two pointed teeth or prongs peculiarly constructed, and secured to a suitable handle to which an adjustable fulcrum is connected, in order to allow the implement to be manipulated by persons of different statures and strength.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Three-Horse Equalizers.
Patent for improvement in treble-trees by using “two stretcher-loops that are jointed on the double-tree at points on each side of the centre, so that the strain is not at one point, but somewhat distributed.” (Lines 42-44) “The loops can be adjusted so that should there be any material inequality in the strength of the three horses, one can equalized by arranging the loops accordingly nearer to or further away from the centre on either one or both sides.” (Lines 45-49) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Enterprise. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 31, 1873
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 31, 1873
Creator:
Burnett, Tom R. & Farr, Jim
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Enterprise. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1874
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 31, 1874
Creator:
Burnett, Tom R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 1875
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
March 31, 1875
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R. & Carlton, Charles
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1877
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
January 31, 1877
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R. & Carlton, Charles
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 31, 1877
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
October 31, 1877
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 31, 1878
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
July 31, 1878
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 1880
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
March 31, 1880
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1881
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
August 31, 1881
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 1882
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
May 31, 1882
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1883
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes news and information on Christian topics along with advertising.
Date:
January 31, 1883
Creator:
Burnett, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder.
Patent for a new extension ladder, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Crews, Dayton H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1894
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 31, 1894
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1896
Weekly newspaper from Honey Grove, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 31, 1896
Creator:
Lowry, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Ward, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1899
Weekly newspaper from Bonham, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 31, 1899
Creator:
Evans, J. C. & Evans, Ashley
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Presses
Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Galbraith, Oscar B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History