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Air-Compressor for Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an improvement in air-compressors for water-elevators, and it consists in the novel mechanism for compressing air, by which water is designed to be raised from a cistern, or other reservoir." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1895
Creator:
Warren, Governor D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Leg.
Patent for an artificial leg that has an improved ankle joint and a socket for the stump. It is also more comfortable than other artificial legs.
Date:
February 12, 1895
Creator:
Chapman, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Cleaning Compound.
Patent for a boiler-cleaning compound made up of "an improved compound having sodium hydrate for a base, and having certain subordinate ingredients whereby its efficiency is increased, and whereby the action of the sodium hydrate is so modified that no detriment to the boiler iron will result" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Hill, Martin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for "an improved freight car door so supported that it will not be shaken or jarred off and can be easily opened and closed at all times no matter how heavily loaded the car may be." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 26, 1895
Creator:
Allen, Thomas C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Wheel and Axle.
Patent for a car wheel and axle made up of a built-up metallic wheel with dished side-plates that have flanged and riveted rims, hub-nuts, a lock-plate, hollow screw-threaded ends, hexagonal offsets, tubular journals, a tubular journal, and a radial lubricating feed-tube with a cross-head and a collar.
Date:
May 14, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Change of Membership Certificate for Georgie Traithorn]
Certificate documenting that Mrs. Georgie L. Traithorn has been a member of St. Luke's Church in Denison, and is now moving to St. Matthew's Cathedral in Dallas. Text on the back of the form is an excerpt of the Canons of the Church outlining that church members must obtain such certification when moving to a new parish.
Date:
October 2, 1895
Creator:
Gibble, John B.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Change of Membership Certificate for Julie Black]
Certificate documenting that Mrs. Julie E. Black has been a member of St. Luke's Church in Denison, and is now moving to St. Matthew's Cathedral in Dallas. Text on the back of the form is an excerpt of the Canons of the Church outlining that church members must obtain such certification when moving to a new parish.
Date:
October 2, 1895
Creator:
Gibble, John B.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (line 1-10).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for a cotton-cleaning apparatus made up of "a stationary foraminous case or drum having an inlet-opening in the upper side of its small end, a rotary shaft extending centrally through the case or drum and having a plurality of spirally-arranged at the large end of the foraminous case and having a discharge-pipe for conveying the cotton to the point where it is to be deposited or discharged - as, for instance, into gins or gin-feeders" (lines 9-19). The cotton goes in one end, the cotton is elevated, beater-arms move the cotton along, and fans drive the cotton to the gins.
Date:
October 8, 1895
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an "apparatus adapted for continuously compressing and baling cotton in juxtaposition to the ginning machinery, by conducting cotton from the condenser to compressing rolls operating to progressively compress the fluffy mass into a compact bat or sheet which is laid in folds or laps and subsequently moved or transferred to a suitable baling press and subjected to final pressure to expel the air from between the folds or laps and enable the bale or package to be tied while under pressure." (Lines 9-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1895
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that compresses "cotton as it is delivered from the gin into convenient shape and size of bundle, for facilitating the transportation thereof" (lines 12-15).
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1405: Erwin, Walter S. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Erwin, Walter S. (Deceased) and W.N. Coe (Executor or Guardian). According to Loudermilk - Miller burial records Walter S. Erwin is buried in the Oakland Cemetery Dallas. The grave is not marked.
Date:
1895-01-25/1895-06-25
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1628: Dekcer, Mrs. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Dekcer, Mrs. (Deceased) and F.C. Hernichel (Executor or Guardian). Her name was Mrs. Decker, not Dekcer as listed in the title of the document. All of Mrs. Dekcer's worldly goods were sold by the administrator. Everything including one chicken amounted to 6.25. She didn't have a first name listed in the court papers.
Date:
1895-02-07/1895-03
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1650: Arnold, J.Y. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Arnold, J.Y. (died July 24, 1895) and Mary E. Arnold (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-02-19/1895-09-10
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1654: Barker, C. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Barker, C. (died December 1895) and E. Barker (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-08-27/1899-10-31
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1659: Burgher, Matilda (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Burgher, Matilda (died September 23, 1895) and Geo. Burgher (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-09-23/1896-06-27
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1660: Butler, B.J. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Butler, B.J. (died May 1896) and C.H. Butler (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-10-18/1897-01-30
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1661: Burnett, R.S. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Burnett, R.S. (died July 14, 1895) and Wm. Epperson (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-06-28/1896-02-05
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1665: Cretien, Athanes (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Cretien, Athanes (died April 4, 1895) and Mrs. A. Cretien (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-03-27/1895-09-09
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1674: Cooke, Geo. W. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Cooke, Geo. W. (died August 23, 1895) and Maggie J. Cook (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-08-23/1896-09-19
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1679: Gurley, Jas. W. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Gurley, Jas. W. (died September 26, 1895) and W.T. Henry (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-05-15/1895-09-26
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1680: Flynn, E.J. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Flynn, E.J. (Deceased) and Anna Flynn (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-10-01/1895-11-29
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dallas County Probate Case 1681: Fakes, B.P. (Deceased)
Dallas County probate record regarding the case of Fakes, B.P. (died June 24, 1895) and Emma C. Fakes (Executor or Guardian)
Date:
1895-06-24/1895-09-02
Creator:
Dallas County (Tex.)
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History