Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "consists in a disk pivoted on a plate and provided with a notch for receiving the corner of the door, and with a series of teeth with which a pawl engages for locking the disk in place after it has been adjusted" (lines 11-15).
Date: April 14, 1885
Creator: Callaway, James William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevating-Truck. (open access)

Elevating-Truck.

Patent for invention to "improve the construction of elevating-trucks and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive apparatus adapted to be readily moved from one place to another and capable of enabling bales, boxes and the like to be readily lifted from the ground or other supporting-surface and raised to a convenient position for loading such freight upon a wagon or other conveyance" (p. 1, lines 10-18).
Date: September 14, 1900
Creator: Penick, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1879
Creator: Talley, Reuben Jones
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Block 22

Parent map for Coryell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Block 23

Parent map for Coryell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Block 24

Parent map for Coryell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Block 26

Parent map for Coryell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Block 27

Parent map for Coryell County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Index

Index map for Coryell County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:110,538.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Inset F01

Inset map for Coryell County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:4,500.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Inset F02

Inset map for Coryell County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:4,500.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Coryell County, Inset I01

Inset map for Coryell County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:2,672.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Lampasas County, Block 16

Parent map for Lampasas County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:19,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon and Braid Holder. (open access)

Ribbon and Braid Holder.

Patent for a new and improved ribbon and braid holder. This design "consist[s] of [a] V-shaped wire having the cross-piece and the pin, having eyes at its ends, through which eyes the shanks of the V-shaped wire pass freely . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the roll, having the central aperture" (lines 55-61).
Date: July 14, 1885
Creator: Stone, Charles M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine (open access)

Type-Writing Machine

Patent for improvements to typewriters "to provide means whereby a number of sheets of paper may be inserted at one time and removed successively after each page is written, there by obviating the necessity of removing the completed sheet and replacing it by a new one at the end of each page" (lines 14-20).
Date: January 14, 1890
Creator: Pierce, Jesse W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a simplified washing machine by constructing it with "double bottoms and sides, and in providing the said machines with means by which the washing-liquid is made to flow upward between the said sides and downward upon the article or articles to be washed; and it also consists in providing suitable means whereby said articles or articles may be drained" (lines 14-20).
Date: February 14, 1888
Creator: McCausland, William I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wedge Cutter (open access)

Wedge Cutter

Patent for a device that cuts wood into different sized wedges. This is a device used in the construction industry.
Date: July 14, 1915
Creator: Echols, Elijah B. & Zindler, Herman J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History