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Buckle
Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Allen, Orcenith F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toboggan-Slide.
Patent for a toboggan slide for use in amusement parks that is easily taken up and down and includes guard rails and ant-friction devices to help guide the toboggan down the slide. It also provides a method of easily moving toboggans from one slide to another.
Date:
March 19, 1907
Creator:
Allen, Orcenith F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Lubricating-Cups.
Patent for a locking device for lubricating cups that prevents the plug from coming out of the cup.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
Anderson, Kos M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Cultural Resources Survey of a Portion of the Proposed Oncor Electric Delivery Killeen Switch to Fort Hood Tap 138 kV Transmission Line Rebuild, Bell County, Texas
A report on the findings of an archaeological survey of the proposed site of the Oncor Electeric Delivery Killeen Switch to Fort Hood Tap 138kV Transmission Line rebuilding project in Bell County, Texas to determine whether there were any cultural resources in the area.
Date:
August 2013
Creator:
Atkins North America, Inc.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool
Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Baggett, Robert A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knife
Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 28, 1907
Creator:
Baggett, Robert A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Cutter.
Patent for a vegetable cutter that cuts cleanly, rapidly, and with force.
Date:
May 21, 1907
Creator:
Baggett, Robert A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas
Report studying the central Texas region's water resources, with notes that there has been rapid decline and contamination in the area. The aquifer is also being used faster than it can naturally replenish.
Date:
January 1990
Creator:
Baker, Bernard; Duffin, Gail; Flores, Robert & Lynch, Tad
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bath-Cabinet
Patent for improvements in hot air bath cabinets in which it can employ for a foot or body bath, and be able to control or regulate the hot air current. (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Ballard, Silas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Foot-Warmer
Patent for a device that uses electricity to provide warmth to a person's feet as well as any other parts of the body. It may be used in and out of a bed, and it may be used as "a light reflector for treating certain diseases by strong rays of light concentrated and applied directly to the body" (lines 17-20).
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Ballard, Silas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit-Control Apparatus
Patent for an automatic circuit control that uses electro-magnetics. The invention is primarily used for making or breaking circuits.
Date:
November 29, 1913
Creator:
Barron, Melvil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer
Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Batla, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Grapple
Patent for a fish-grapple device with parts "embodying prongs or hooks which will engage the fish and prevent its escape" (lines 16-17).
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Batla, Thomas, H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic gas-lighter
Patent for automatic gas lighter, designed for igniting the headlights of auto vehicle, the principle object was to attach a simple automatic lighter to any automobile which is cheaper and reliable.
Date:
July 11, 1916
Creator:
Ben F. Keith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Time-Indicator.
Patent for time indicators wherein the time noting figures are carried upon rotary disks that are constructed and arranged as to expose the proper time in hours, minutes, and seconds to a face plate.
Date:
February 3, 1914
Creator:
Bentley, William G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[a] duplex cotton or other press comprising connected pressing-boxes, each having a loose lower platen and platen-supports on its sides, devices . . . for raising said lower platens, a truck for supporting said boxes, traveling wheels or rollers journaled to said truck and having bevel or V-shaped treads or peripheries, a track mounted upon suitable supports and having a V-shaped or recessed top face to receive and guide said wheels or rollers during the reciprocatory movements of said truck and the thereto-connected boxes" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Berry, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress.
Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L. & Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Machine.
Patent for a cotton-baling machine that compresses cotton between two pressure-rolls and rolls it around a core. This invention improves "the mode of applying pressure to the pressure rolls, and [improves] the manner of mounting the core-roll in position within the compress, and for facilitating the removal of said core-roll; and the elevation therefrom of the compress-roll" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Sprayer Attachment for Washing-Machines.
Design patent for a sprayer attachment for washing machines that includes a conical base-plate with a circular spout projection at its apex.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History