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Buggy Wrench
Patent for a buggy wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
September 20, 1904
Creator:
Ware, Richard M. & Carroll, James Malcum
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil map, Texas, Wilson County
Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Wilson County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Wilson County, Texas.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Lyman, W. S. & Schroeder, Frank C.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. This invention is designed to plant seed in hills at any desired predetermined distance apart.
Date:
October 6, 1903
Creator:
Coble, William H.; Coble, Robert L.; Johnson, Bennett & Johnson, N. J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to enable the slack of a wire to be readily taken up at a point between the posts and capable of enabling a wire to be readily stretched to the desired tension" (lines 12-17).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
May, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Injector-Burner.
Patent for injector burner that provides rapid vaporization by maximum heating the walls of oil chamber and also has improved nozzle with oil outlet pipe. It has a detachable burner nozzle and maximum spread of flame is given by the burner-tip.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for a sulky plow for three horses, which stops the plow pole from rubbing the middle horse.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Marx, Otto H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton.
Patent for improvement in process of baling cotton is to “heat the cotton-bat at a point between the gin-condenser and the pressing-rollers, exposing the heated bat while incompact to the action of dry air, then compress the cotton-bat into bale form.” (Page 2, lines 39-43) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 29, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols.
Patent for a fan attachment for umbrellas or parasols, including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Beseler, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Press.
Patent for roller-presses that form cylindrical bales from cotton-bat delivered from the gin-condenser to the press. The invention is meant to make the structure more compact and lighter, with greater strength and capacity; to relieve friction; to automatically change pressure as the bale increases; to form the bale without a core; and to improve various aspects of completing the bales.
Date:
April 29, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Press
Patent for improvements of roller presses with speed and "to form a cyndrical bale of the cotton-batting" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 10, 1900
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Filling Fountain-Pen and Locking Device Therefor.
Patent for a new self-filling fountain pen with a locking device, designed "to provide a fountain pen by which in use of a piston rod on the principle of a suction pump the pen can be easily, fully and securely filled and easily cleaned, and which being provided with detachable parts may be prepared readily when worn or broken" (lines 10-15), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Stevens, Thornton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano.
Patent for a new piano "in which the strings are vibrated through the medium of a bow, as in a violin, instead of being struck with hammers in accordance with the usual method" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date:
June 5, 1900
Creator:
Holcombe, Edgar L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for a planter. Illustration included.
Date:
August 10, 1909
Creator:
Brinkoeter, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.
The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Smith, Millage M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivaor
Patent for a combine cotton chopper and cultivator, illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
McCracken, Ninian S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling.
Patent for hose couplings which "may be very quickly and effectively placed in engagement with and held upon the nozzle of a hydrant, thus making the device very available for fire-hose" (lines 10-14).
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
Dolen, Felix P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for improvement of construction of wire stretcher for both mending and cutting wire.
Date:
November 20, 1900
Creator:
Passmore, Benjamine, H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning And Condensing Machine
Patent for cotton cleaning and condensing machine. "This invention relates to cotton cleaning and condensing machinery; and it has for its object to proved simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive machine for cleaning the cotton fiber and forming it into a bat as it leaves the gin in preparation for the baling press" (9-15). Illustration included.
Date:
October 17, 1905
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History