Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternative Fuel Transit Buses: DART's (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) LNG Bus Fleet Final Results (open access)

Alternative Fuel Transit Buses: DART's (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) LNG Bus Fleet Final Results

In 1998, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, a public transit agency in Dallas, Texas, began operating a large fleet of heavy-duty buses powered by liquefied natural gas. As part of a $16 million commitment to alternative fuels, DART operates 139 LNG buses serviced by two new LNG fueling stations.
Date: November 7, 2000
Creator: Chandler, K.; Norton, P. & Clark, N.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Valve For Smoke-Conveyers And Spark-Arresters. (open access)

Valve For Smoke-Conveyers And Spark-Arresters.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valves for smoke conveyers and spark arresters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Danan, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hosiery Spat. (open access)

Hosiery Spat.

Patent for hosiery spat that provides feet and ankle "protection when fancy 'open work' or thin hosiery is worn." (lines 15-16) including illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1922
Creator: von S.S. Blum, Elisa
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop Machine (open access)

Envelop Machine

Patent for Envelop Machine
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Otey, George S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Bantz, Frederick Wallace
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Steamer. (open access)

Fruit-Steamer.

Patent for a new and useful fruit steamer for vegetables, canning fruits, &c., including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Henderson, Alfred Jasper
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Feeder. (open access)

Seed-Cotton Feeder.

Patent for a gin feeder that carries "the cotton forward, and is provided with some one or more of many additional devices to regulate the amount delivered by the conveyer, independently of the amount that may be in the feeder, provided only that the supply be not to scanty" (lines 13-18). Other feeders do this, but the patent is for an especially simply designed and does not use a belt conveyer. It also does not wear out easily.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Elam, William Erwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History