Apparatus for Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum (open access)

Apparatus for Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum

Patent for an apparatus for using the sulfur content of petroleum found in the oil fields of Texas. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Eggleston, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Core-Holding Mechanism for Cotton-Baling Machines. (open access)

Core-Holding Mechanism for Cotton-Baling Machines.

Patent for a core-holding mechanism for cotton-baling machines that provides "new and improved means for engaging and disengaging the core, so that it is guided vertically, and the bale is susceptible of being conveniently and rapidly removed from the machine and a core introduced for the formation of another bale" (lines 19-24).
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Smith, Hamilton E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Baling Machine.

Patent for an effective cotton-baling machine that improves on how cotton is compressed and fed into the rotary, that stretches the cotton to its thinnest, that improves on how the core is carried, that raises and lowers the compressor roller, that improves on the rack-and pinion mechanism, that improves on how the ends of the cotton roll are pressed, and that quickly and easily finishes each bale.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Smith, Hamilton E. & Dare, Benjamin A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter. (open access)

Carbureter.

Patent for a carbureter that vaporizes liquid fuel, specifically kerosene, for use as an explosive charge in an internal combustion engine.
Date: July 10, 1912
Creator: Mack, John Rodney.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appraisal of Water Resources in the Hackensack River Basin, New Jersey (open access)

Appraisal of Water Resources in the Hackensack River Basin, New Jersey

From introduction: The purpose of the study was to assemble data on the occurrence, movement, availability and chemical quality of ground water in the Hackensack River basin in Bergen and Hudson Counties, New Jersey; to evaluate and interpret the data; and to make the results available to the public.
Date: June 1976
Creator: Carswell, L. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement (open access)

City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement

From Introduction: "In connection with the fuel investigations conducted by the Bureau of Mines much information has been accumulated as to the smoke abatement activities in various cities. The essential features of the information are presented in this report, which, it is believed, will be of public interest and benefit, especially to those communities that are just beginning organized effort to abate unnecessary smoke."
Date: 1912
Creator: Flagg, Samuel B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum (open access)

Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum

Patent for utilizing the sulfur content in petroleum obtained from oil. Illustrations included,
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Eggleston, John E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum. (open access)

Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum.

Patent for a method of removing sulfur from Beaumont petroleum and converting it into sulfuric acid.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Robinson, Clarence I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stylographic Fountain-Pen. (open access)

Stylographic Fountain-Pen.

Patent for stylographic fountain pens to improve them by allowing the "ink to flow freely from the point of the pen" (line 35) and allowing easy, pressurized ink refills.
Date: February 3, 1880
Creator: Fisher, Charles N. & Downes, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History