Corn-Planter. (open access)

Corn-Planter.

Patent for improvement of corn-planters, with illustrations. The purpose of this corn-planters patent was to improve existing corn-planters through, "peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (lines 9-12).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Koepke, William. Wm. Koepke.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Crushing Clods of Earth, &c. (open access)

Implement for Crushing Clods of Earth, &c.

Patent for a implement for crushing clods of earth, whose spikes can be held at different angles.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Meinen, Diedrich
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for an "improvement in devices for destroying ants and burrowing animals of all kinds." (lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Melcher, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sprinklers. (open access)

Improvement in Sprinklers.

Patent for an improved sprinkler.
Date: January 18, 1876
Creator: Melcher, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers.

Patent for "the combination, in a cotton-sprinkler, having a fluid-vessel, of flexible ejecting hose, having flaring nozzle sprinklers, with hooks or fastening devices for holding the nozzles in elevated positions upon the vessels, whereby the driver has perfect control both over the flow and direction of the fluid, and is thereby enabled to inject the fluid upon the two rows of plants, without regard to their height or the uncertain movement of the horse between the rows, and to stop the flow by elevating and hooking the ejecting-hose to the upper corners of the vessel, thus rendering the device much more effective in directing the fluid than could possibly be effected by fixed distributing perforated cocks, and preventing unnecessary waste of the fluid." (Lines 13-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 18, 1875
Creator: Ramsey, Croghan A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements to a machine that compresses bolts of cloth or waste into compact bales for shipment.
Date: March 18, 1884
Creator: Reagan, Edgar U. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison Distributer. (open access)

Poison Distributer.

Patent for a new and improved poison distributor. This design "relates to improvements in machines for exterminating insects . . . the application of poisons in solutions . . . cannot be brought into contact with every part of an infested plant. They furthermore invariably retard the growth and often kill the plant. . . . The object of [the] invention is to obviate the defects referred to . . . whereby pulverized poisons may be rapidly ejected, not directly upon the plants, but mainly into the surrounding atmosphere. . . . and produce the desired effect upon every object within a wide range" (lines 14-44).
Date: March 18, 1890
Creator: Richards, Henry B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 93 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 93

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating Schulenburg the Official Home of the Painted Churches of Texas.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-picking machines including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Trenks, Frederick F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History