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Building Structure
Patent for a building support structure for bridges, buildings, dams, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 5, 1908
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Ledger
Patent for a Bank-Ledger
Date:
February 10, 1903
Creator:
Ford, Earle
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing machine for clothes that can also be adapted to stoves or gas jets as a boiler. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.
Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine
Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to mold concrete and other artificial stone blocks. Illustration included.
Date:
September 18, 1906
Creator:
Latimer, Samuel A. & Krischke, Joseph, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost.
Patent for a chicken roost, which has a receptacle for droppings that is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
Kaneaster, Henry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool
Patent for a tool used for wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Dikes, Johnnie C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Pippin, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine
Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to form blocks out of plastic material into artificial stone, as well as molding concrete blocks. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 20, 1906
Creator:
Latimer, Samuel A.; Dunkin, James J.; Stacey, J. H.; Hall, A. L.; Porter, R. S.; Haynes, S. F. et al.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bucket-Jack
Patent for a bucket jack for holding paint buckets while painting on roofs or the sides of buildings which holds the bucket horizontal.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Phinny, Christpher W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
McCarty, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Opener.
Patent for "a simple and durable device by means of which the buckles or securing devices on cotton-bale ties or bands may be readily opened and the band removed from the bale without destroying the buckle or the band, so that they may be again used." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Gaskill, Clinton R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c.
Patent for a compound that is meant to remove grease, oil, paint, and similar things from delicate cloth. It is composed of gasoline, chloroform, sulfuric ether, alcohol, spirits of ammonia, powdered borax, powdered carbonate of soda, and saltpeter in lumps.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Ehman, Benedickt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvester.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable corn harvester that "when drawn over a field of corn of cutting the ears of corn from two rows simultaneously, and of depositing the cut corn in a receiver at the rear of the cutters" (lines 11-15).
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Perkins, James Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the bedstead having bolts at the corners, the hooks at the centers of the end rails, and the hooks at the centers of the side rails, of the two wires on each side having their ends secured to the bolts, engaging the hooks and passing to the side of the bed and engaging the hooks, the rings strung on and embracing the adjoining wires between the hooks . . . so as to cause the wires to be brought together, and the cord or strap connecting the said rings so as to slide the rings upon the wires" (lines 20-31).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
Warfield, Dunbar Griffith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm
Patent for "a very simple and economically-constructed alarm mechanically connected with windows and doors of a house or a room and adapted to be sounded by a raising or opening of the same, and at the same time to strike a light or illuminate the surroundings (lines 10-15).
Date:
October 7, 1890
Creator:
Canterbury, Crawford R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improvement in churn by using a combination of a sliding bar, a cord secured to the dasher-shaft, and vertical rods to create a mechanical movement that would wind and unwind the cord in order to operate the churn. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 3, 1891
Creator:
Crouch, Riley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a burglar-alarms by constructing “an alarm which would adapted and arranged to sound and to be operated at and by the raising of the window or opening of the door, and simultaneous with the sounding of the alarm to produce an illumination.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Canterbury, Crawford R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Frame Brace.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design "consists in providing a transverse slat at each of its ends with a pair of diverging hooks, the same to be connected to the rail on each side by means of screw-eyes, and thereby preventing the bedstead from spreading, bracing it transversely and obliquely" (lines 19-25).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cork Extractor.
Patent for a new and improved automatic cork extractor. This design "consists, principally, of a vertically-moving and partially-rotating blade having a harpoon-shaped or shouldered head for piercing and drawing the corks; in laterally opening and closing jaws for holding the necks of the bottles; in pivoted and laterally-moving pointed levers for throwing the parts of the corks away from the blade when withdrawn, and in the construction and combination of the parts of the device" (lines 14-23).
Date:
May 24, 1881
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1930, Chapter 698
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to gifts and grants for financing or assisting the operation of the office of County Attorney in Brown County.
Date:
2007-04/2007-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Mills County, Index
Index map for Mills 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 1:120,186.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Brown County, Block 10
Parent map for Brown County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Brown County, Block 12
Parent map for Brown County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History