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Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved bale-band tightener. This design "is to produce a device by which one person may with ease draw a band tightly around a bale of cotton or other merchandise, in place of one that has by accident been broken" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 8, 1884
Creator:
Willis, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button Attaching Machine.
Patent for a new and improved button-attaching machine. This design consists in "the combination, with the plunger, of . . . the die having a central projection to enter the concavity of a button and parallel oblique curved recesses in said projection . . . [and] a peripheral flange" (lines 84-99).
Date:
January 24, 1888
Creator:
Tone, Harrison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Closure
Patent for a can closure. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Brundrett, Arnold
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple, practical, and reliable car-coupling with a side latch. It is "adapted for automatic connection in pairs, when two cars having the improvements are brought together on the same track, which will be capable of a ready release from the side of either coupled car, and also that will be adapted by its peculiar formation to receive support from one part of the improvements, when a coupled drawhead is partly detached from its connections to the car, and which if not so sustained might fall on the track, derail the car having the disabled coupling, and occasion the wreckage of said car and others of a train" (lines 14-27).
Date:
January 15, 1895
Creator:
Curry, Charles D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening.
Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Rail Hose-Bridge.
Patent that provides a hose-bridge that is light in weight and simple in construction, that can be carried on the cars or stored at different points on the line convenient for use.
Date:
January 24, 1921
Creator:
Tyler, Charley P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: County to give back money]
A Sherman Democrat clipping about Grayson county giving back funds after no AIDS patients claimed them.
Date:
January 19, 1993
Creator:
Wallis, Cherie
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water-Elevator.
Patent for new and improved compressed air water elevator to lift water from reservoirs.
Date:
January 27, 1880
Creator:
Keating, Thomas, B.; Clarke, Lafe. W. & Gelatt, Wallace W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conflagration Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved conflagration arrester. This design "is to provide a device by which the sides of a building adjacent to other buildings on fire may be protected by a uniform continuous sheet of water covering the sides of such building" (lines 9-13). It consists in "the combination of a series of inclined arms provided with eyes at their outer ends and having hooks to engage the side of a building, a shelf or deflector, and a rod so connecting the latter pivotally with the eyes of the inclined arms that the upper part of said shelf shall overbalance the lower part, which shall . . . rest against the wall" (lines 89-97).
Date:
January 20, 1891
Creator:
Puckett, Florence N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin
Patent for a cotton gin which removes lint with air pressure. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 26, 1909
Creator:
Epps, Clinton Calvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).
Date:
January 24, 1882
Creator:
Byers, Anthony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner for kitchen use such as cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Brennan, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 4, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 4, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 138, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 5, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 139, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 6, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 140, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 7, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 141, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 8, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 142, Ed. 1 Monday, January 10, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 10, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 143, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 11, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 144, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 12, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 12, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 13, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denison Daily Cresset. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 146, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1876
Daily newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 14, 1876
Creator:
Burson, J. W. & Day, James H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History