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Power Device for Baling Presses.
Patent for a new and improved power device for baling-presses. This design consists, "with a suitable frame, of a crank-shaft journaled therein, a pitman, and two disks, one loosely and the other rigidly mounted on said shaft and provided, respectively, upon their adjacent faces with a pair of shoulders and a lug, the length of the cut-away portion between said shoulders being greater than the length of said lug, whereby independent movement of the two disks is permitted, and a sweep rigidly attached to the loosely mounted disk" (lines 79-89).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Nott, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power Device for Baling Presses.
Patent for a new and improved power device for baling presses. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in power devices for baling-presses of that class wherein is employed a disk rigidly fixed to the shaft of the crank and a disk loosely mounted on said shaft; and it has for its object to improve upon prior constructions of this character. [This design] hinge[s] the lugs on the loosely mounted disk, and, preferably, place a spring between the said lug and the disk, so that either the weight of the lug or the force of the spring will project or suspend the lug" (lines 13-24).
Date:
August 5, 1890
Creator:
Cass, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace.
Patent for a new and improved brace. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the cistern or its equivalent having internal circumferential seats and the brace-sections having edge flanges fitted to said seats and having such flanges cut away at one end, whereby the section may fit at one end in the end of the adjacent section" (lines 30-36).
Date:
September 2, 1890
Creator:
Henderson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "is to provide the trace-carrier with a locking-brace, which is held in a closed position by the chain, which prevents all possibility of the chain from becoming detached from the carrier while in use" (lines 16-20). To this end, it consists, "with the body having a strap-fastener and an outwardly and upwardly extending hook, of a locking-plate, which is hinged at its upper end to the upper portion of the body, and its lower end provided with an inner perforated projection through which the said hook passes, and a shorter projection" (lines 78-85).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Clark, Alexander E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back Band Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved back-band buckle. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive back-band buckle adapted to protect the sides of an animal against rubbing, and capable of enabling the tug-chain to be readily secured thereto and removed therefrom and of securely holding the same without liability of the chain becoming accidentally unfastened" (lines 10-17).
Date:
September 30, 1890
Creator:
McCall, Dugald B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Plow.
Patent for improvements on the combination plow that can be converted into a single, double, or three plow, including illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cameron 1891 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Cameron in Milam County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cameron 1891 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Cameron in Milam County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale 1891 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Rockdale in Milam County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale 1891 Sheet 2
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Rockdale in Milam County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1891
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Cotton-Plow.
Patent for a combination cotton plow that makes hoeing more efficient and profitable. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1891
Creator:
Williams, Charley Mabry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Tower.
Patent for "skeleton towers of a character more especially adapted to support a wind-wheel" (lines 8-10) and that allow the wheel to be lowered.Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1891
Creator:
Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in a device that is "adapted to take up slack in barbed and other wire fences," (lines 11-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 12, 1891
Creator:
Wilson, Jesse H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1892
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Swinging Gates.
Patent "to simplify and improve the construction of means for opening and closing swinging gates," (lines 10 - 12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1892
Creator:
Rhodes, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and effective car coupling that is partially automatic, "and in case of accident or breakage the said device is adapted to be used after the manner of an ordinary car-coupling" (lines 17-19).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Felton, Tommas Wesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power
Patent for an alternative horse power design without cogs that has the same level of efficiency with an increased speed of output as well.
Date:
November 15, 1892
Creator:
Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties.
Book containing a brief overview of the state of Texas and more specific focus on six specific counties, with extensive biographical sketches about persons related to the history of those places. An alphabetical index of persons who are included follows the table of contents at the front of the book.
Date:
1893
Creator:
Lewis Publishing Company
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Wire Articles.
Patent for an improved machine that makes wire coils, springs, pins, and similar wire formations. "The invention has for its objects to provide a simple, cheap and durable device or machine for the purpose named which can be easily operated and capable of turning out a large number of the articles with the expenditure of the minimum amount of time and labor" (lines 22-28).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Scoop.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton scoop and is "adapted to have its tines yield to facilitate its insertion in a mass of cotton" (lines 13-14).
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Brown, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Cultivator and Irrigator.
Patent for an underground irrigating plow that consists of a draft bar, crank arms, plow beams that front ends swivel on the crank arms, a ratchet rod with chain spools, a ratchet lever that is attached to the ratchet rod, chains that are attached to the plow beams and the spools, braces that are attached to the crank arms, and a double-tree.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Askew, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.
This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date:
1895
Creator:
Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge.
Patent for "an adjustable hinge for use in connection with a suitable upper hinge, for supporting gates in such manner as to permit of their being opened in either direction and allowed to close automatically," and which "also allows the gate to be adjusted to suit the inclination of its supporting-post, or to have its outer end elevated to a sufficient degree to permit dogs and other small animals to pass freely under same when closed." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Westmoreland, Hugh S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cameron 1896 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Cameron in Milam County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History