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Means for Ventilating Cars. (open access)

Means for Ventilating Cars.

Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design is "first, to ventilate cars or other vehicles in such a manner that the air-currents may be formed within and directed to any part of the car and the admission of the air regulated in quantity; second, to change the direction of the air-currents formed within the car and regulate their escape" (lines 11-17). It consists in "the body of a vehicle having its walls provided with a suitable pipe-opening, of an air-receiving pipe provided with a screen upon its outer end, a hollow fan-shaped air-distributor having an opening within said walls" (lines 58-63).
Date: January 6, 1891
Creator: Lazarus, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Car (open access)

Stock-Car

Patent for an improvement on patent no. 326,591 so as "to enable a series of troughs in a stock-car to be extended toward and withdrawn 'from a position in line with the heads of the stock simultaneously; second, to provide for a vibrating water-trough a self-folding end support; third, to provide a car-door for the entrance of the stock which is capable of being folded and will unfold to close the door-opening in line with the inner surface of the car; fourth, to provide a sliding rear support for a folding car-door when closed; fifth, to enable the vibrating stall-partitions to be released from a horizontally-retained position from either side of the car; sixth, to enable one exterior end portion of a stock-car to be folded in line with the end hay-racks; seventh, to combine a folding exterior end portion of a car with the interior hay-rack" (lines 18-36).
Date: January 6, 1891
Creator: Stoner, Jacob B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 19, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 6, 1891 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 19, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 6, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 6, 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 32, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 6, 1891 (open access)

The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 32, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 6, 1891

Weekly newspaper from Denison, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 6, 1891
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History