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Bridle Bit.
Patent for a new and improved bridle bit. This design "consist[s] of curb-plates provided with the mouth-bar and having the upper ends provided with slots and the lower ends formed with longitudinal slots, and the cheek-plates loosely fitted to the outer ends of the mouth-bar and having their opposite ends formed with openings for the attachment of the head-stall and reins" (lines 72-79).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Allen, John Hudson
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
Gearing for Windmills
Patent for gearing used in the operation of windmills. This invention improves the rotary motion of the wheel shaft that operates the pump. "A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel supporting frame in which is mounted for vertical movement the pump actuating rod" (13-16). Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1908
Creator:
Brown, Herbert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake
Patent for a rail-car brake system. Illustration included.
Date:
March 15, 1904
Creator:
Brown, Herbert E. & Brown, Marcus L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake
Patent for a car brake. This is an invention for a brake on railroad cars.
Date:
October 20, 1903
Creator:
Brown, Herbert Eddes
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Oiler.
Patent for a windmill oiler to automatically pump oil of the proper amount to lubricate the windmill bearings which is placed on the windmill head.
Date:
March 17, 1908
Creator:
Brown, Herbert Eddes
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for a type of crate used for shipping eggs. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Brown, Willaim F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg Preserving Compound
Patent for a egg preserving compound. This invention consists of an air-excluding coating to prevent deterioration for an indefinite period.
Date:
December 22, 1903
Creator:
Brown, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Buggy-Tops.
Patent for support for Buggy-Tops is the patent that describes about new technique of planting a crops with
Date:
February 24, 1903
Creator:
Brown, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Hanger.
Patent for a window shade hanger, which can be used with different size rollers and is able to be opened from top or bottom.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Brown, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel
Patent for the improvement of resilient wheels meant to be applied to any vehicle running gear. Resilient wheel will allow tire to move freely and absorb shocks.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Burgess, Richard H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Wheel.
Patent for a spring wheel, which absorbs shocks.
Date:
June 8, 1909
Creator:
Burgess, Richard H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Curling Iron Holder
Patent for a design for a curling-iron holder.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Campbell, Orton G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutter taht could be fixed to a plow, so that it could simultaneously cut stalks and plow.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Cline, Milton G. & Martin, Jadie A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Brown and Mills Counties, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Brown and Mills Counties, Texas.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Clower, Dennis F.; Kelly, J. David; Botts, O. L.; Bynum, O. W.; Coker, John L. & Hailey, R. B.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed-Bottom.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable spring bet bottom that consists of a frame, slats, separate inverted cone-shaped coiled springs that sit on the slats and that loop together at the tops, clamps that hold the springs onto the slats, and hooks that hold the upper coils to the frame.
Date:
December 26, 1893
Creator:
Crowder, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine.
Patent for a wire-coiling machine that improves on a previous patent (No. 296,806), that was granted to Wildermuth. The improvement allows for either left- or right-handed use, by making the crank movable to either side and by "providing the upper end of the post at opposite sides with stationary cutter blades and a single movable cutter adapted to be shifted for operation with either one of the said fixed cutters" (lines 28-32).
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Crowder, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Skein.
Patent for an improved version of a certain type of axel skein or spindle holder (the kind in which a spindle with a box or housing rigidly holds a tapered axle.) This patent claims to be an improvement by “simple and inexpensive construction and in which the connections are such that the parts can be conveniently joined or separated and when joined produce a strong and durable combination” (lines 14-21).
Date:
September 29, 1903
Creator:
Cryer, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design "is adapted to be attached to a cart or wagon and moved from place to place thereon in line with the proposed operating fence and operated to bore post-holes without the necessity of detaching it from the wagon, whereby the machine may be readily transported and arranged in position for use" (lines 14-20). It consists, "with a wagon having brackets secured to one side thereof, of a vertically-sliding frame moving within said brackets and carrying an earth-auger and gearing for actuating said auger" (lines 14-18).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Cryer, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved windmill which allows for the conversion of "a rotating motion into a reciprocatory motion" (line 15-16) which allows the windmill to be "manufactured and sold at a comparatively low rate" (line 41-43).
Date:
February 8, 1921
Creator:
Cryer, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator
Patent for Ventilator
Date:
September 12, 1916
Creator:
Curtis, Thomas R
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Regulator.
Patent for an automatic windmill regulator, which turns the windmill in and out of the wind based on the water level of the water tank.
Date:
July 12, 1910
Creator:
Echols, Champ T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for an improvement in cultivators. This invention is designed to vary the distance between the cultivator-beams. Illustration included.
Date:
March 8, 1904
Creator:
Eddy, William Lafayette
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag.
Patent for a mail bag, which opens completely from top to bottom to prevent any mail from being missed in the bag.
Date:
August 24, 1909
Creator:
Forehand, Blake
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History