Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine (open access)

Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine

Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Cassel, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Operated Baling-Press. (open access)

Hand-Operated Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in Hand-Operated Baling-Presses that has a durable structure and is convenient and easy to use for baling hay and straw. Consists of "a box or body provided with a hopper of usual pattern" and "clamping rods located at the delivery end thereof" (lines 19-20) with a sliding plunger, lever, pivots, and a spring. Includes illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Harris, Albert O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for "a simple, inexpensive and efficient implement by which roots of weeds and obnoxious grasses may be removed from the ground and destroyed," while also leaving the ground plowed (lines 9-12). The object also provides a simple way to remove accumulation of roots that generally clog implements of this type.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Garrett, Jefferson D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 130 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 130

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first aircraft landing at Mineola-Wisener Field Airport in Wood County.
Date: June 15, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Andiron. (open access)

Andiron.

Patent for an andiron that combines with a gated screen including illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Baker, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire (open access)

Tire

Patent for an automobile tire that has a "puncture-proof armor" made from links and strips of sheet metal. The armor is placed throughout the inner tube portion of the tire.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Yantis, Guy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoker's Pipe. (open access)

Smoker's Pipe.

Patent for improvements in sanitation, or cleaning, of smoker's pipes. Pipe can be dissembled for cleaning and includes access to duct and stem with no loss of quality in airstream.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Hopkins, George C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder and Planter. (open access)

Seeder and Planter.

Patent for a seeder and planter improvement. The invention "produce an improved leveling board to be used in connection therewith the purpose of leveling soil and crushing clods and for the additional purpose of regulating the depth to which the seed shall be planted." (lines 9-14)
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Mallory, Merideth T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Gatherer. (open access)

Fruit Gatherer.

Patent for a fruit gatherer whereby fruit is picked without injury to fruit or tree.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: White, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate-Clamping Machine. (open access)

Crate-Clamping Machine.

Patent for "improvement in crate clamping machines" (line 10), holding end boards and partition of crates to enable crate assembly.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: C. T. Dickson; Dickson, C. T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for improved Cotton-Chopper, with illusrations and description.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Clayton, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Rail Support and Coupling. (open access)

Railway-Rail Support and Coupling.

Patent for improved combined railway rail supports and joints that increases the efficiency and utility of such devices. Eliminates the need of employing additional bolts or other fastening means.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Acker, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 1992: Upper East Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 1992: Upper East Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Upper East Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: 1992
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Sand Spring Substation, Wood County, Texas (open access)

An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Sand Spring Substation, Wood County, Texas

A report of a pedestrian archaeological survey of 2,250 feet proposed access route for the Sand Spring Substation.
Date: February 23, 2006
Creator: Todd, Jesse
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Environmental Assessment and Routing Study for the Little Mound to Ozarka 69kV Transmission Line (open access)

Environmental Assessment and Routing Study for the Little Mound to Ozarka 69kV Transmission Line

A report of an environmental assessment and alternative route analysis for the proposed 69kV transmission line.
Date: April 10, 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Upper East Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: July 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, June 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, June 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper East Texas area.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, December 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, December 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper East Texas area.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biological, Social, and Economic Impacts of Exempting a Largemouth Bass Fishing Tournament from Slot Length Limits at Lake Fork Reservoir, Texas (open access)

Biological, Social, and Economic Impacts of Exempting a Largemouth Bass Fishing Tournament from Slot Length Limits at Lake Fork Reservoir, Texas

This document provides data about the "biological, social, and economic impacts of exempting largemouth bass fishing tournaments at the Lake Fork Reservoir." (p. 1).
Date: 2012
Creator: Barkoh, Aaron
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check Row Planter (open access)

Check Row Planter

Patent for check row planter. Illustration included.
Date: July 19, 1904
Creator: Perkins, Albert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Conductor (open access)

Electric Conductor

Patent for electric conductor with switch cord and plug especially designed for use with multiple electrical circuits, as with a telephone switchboard.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Weir, Welby D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Kitts, William Caluway
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Straightening AX-Handles (open access)

Apparatus For Straightening AX-Handles

Patent for apparatus for straightening ax-handles. Illustrations included.
Date: August 23, 1904
Creator: Sullivan, Stephen Dunkling
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine. (open access)

Cloth-Measuring Machine.

Patent for a new and useful cloth measuring machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 2, 1900
Creator: Williams, Ellia Pinkney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History