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Improvement in Processes for Preserving Wood.
Patent for preserving wood from the ravages of marine insects (lines 7-8).
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Archer, Roger W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Cage.
Patent for a new and improved design of bee cages that facilitates the feeding of bees during transportation and provides "the proper ventilation of the air through the cage to prevent the bees from smothering" (lines 17-19), including illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1920
Creator:
Ault, Eugene B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Shipping Cage
Patent for transferring bees to a different hive without injury and preventing bees from escaping. The bee-cage offers different ways to transfer the bees.
Date:
August 16, 1921
Creator:
Ault, Eugene B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Soft Candy.
Patent for bee feeder device that allows bees to have access to food during transport. The feeder also is designed to prevent any running and clogging, while minimizing bee death due to starvation.
Date:
July 12, 1921
Creator:
Ault, Eugene B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Implement
Patent for an irrigating implement. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Banks, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Plugger.
Patent for a dental plugger which has a movable cylinder on the interior with a "piston-like mallet working in the cylinder and adapted to strike the same, to impart movement to the dental tool" (lines 93-95).
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Blum, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inspirator Valve For Intake Manifolds
Patent for inspirator valve for to accelerate the air intake to the intake manifold as suction is increased.
Date:
September 18, 1917
Creator:
Brasier, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Burner.
Patent for "a burner, adapted to be employed for burning out stumps." (lines 9-10)
Date:
December 30, 1913
Creator:
Brasier, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer.
Patent for a tool used for shaving or hair trimming. This device has a reversible plate carrying a guard and comb teeth. The plate being reversible to permit the guard to be used in connection with a blade for shaving and to permit the teeth to be used in connection with a blade for hair trimming.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Brasier, William Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Razor.
Patent for a safety razor, with the objects of a creating a novel frame for holding a razor blade of any desired sort, and so that the vibrations will not be transferred to the carrying frame.
Date:
June 22, 1920
Creator:
Brasier, William Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Brooks, John Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flush Valve
Patent for flush valve that stabilizes the cup or trough housing mercury.
Date:
November 7, 1916
Creator:
Cahill, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flush-Valve
Patent for a valve for a general flush tank.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Cahill, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve for the improvement of flushing water in tanks. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Cahill, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sack Attachment for Cotton Picking Machines
Patent for an improved sack attachment for cotton-picking machines that is waterproof and stays in position on the machine to prevent its walls from collapsing during suction of cotton.
Date:
November 11, 1919
Creator:
Chaney, Bailey E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum Cotton-Picking Machine.
Patent for vacuum cotton picking machine and improvements, such as it is more portable, a receiver for the cotton and discharge of the cotton, and an improved cotton picking nozzle.
Date:
February 12, 1918
Creator:
Chaney, Bailey E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swinging Cradle.
Patent for a new swinging cradle which allows the baby crib to be attached to a bed post; includes illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1915
Creator:
Christensen, Peter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cranking Device
Patent for a cranking device. Illustration included.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Christensen, Petter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region N (Coastal Bend), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan
Water plan for Region N (Coastal Bend) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, and the process of creating the plan.
Date:
December 2015
Creator:
Coastal Bend Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Connection.
Patent for "an improved means of connecting the T which usually joins the pipe of a windmill-operated pump to a cistern-pipe" (lines 7-9)
Date:
February 10, 1903
Creator:
Collins, Livingston G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1995
Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date:
April 1995
Creator:
Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 3, June 1995
Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date:
June 1995
Creator:
Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall 1995
Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 2, Number 1, [Winter 1995]
Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date:
1995-24~
Creator:
Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History