Roller Baling Press. (open access)

Roller Baling Press.

Patent for improvements to a roller baling-press.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Bates, Edmond Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful washing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1900
Creator: Biggs, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an improvement to aeroplanes which includes movable horizontal and vertical planes (or curtains).
Date: February 25, 1911
Creator: Blewett, Baxter W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of Denton Resident Update: March/April 2019 (open access)

City of Denton Resident Update: March/April 2019

Newsletter issued by the city of Denton, Texas documenting news and updates, announcing events, and providing other information of interest to residents.
Date: March 2019
Creator: Denton (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of Denton Resident Update: March/April 2020 (open access)

City of Denton Resident Update: March/April 2020

Newsletter issued by the city of Denton, Texas documenting news and updates, announcing events, and providing other information of interest to residents.
Date: March 2020
Creator: Denton (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fit For 50+, Catalog for Denton Senior Center: March 2018 (open access)

Fit For 50+, Catalog for Denton Senior Center: March 2018

Catalog of seasonal activities offered by City of Denton Parks and Recreation and the Denton Senior Center for adults aged 50+, including special events, programs, and classes. Some issues also include articles or messages from staffmembers about topics of interest to seniors.
Date: March 2018
Creator: Denton Senior Center
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Fastener (open access)

Rail Fastener

Patent for rail fasteners. This invention is meant to eliminate the use of railroad spikes in railroad construction.
Date: March 19, 1918
Creator: Gee, Alexander H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Jar and Bottle Cleaner. (open access)

Fruit-Jar and Bottle Cleaner.

Patent for a cleaning device that navigates narrow openings of containers, such as bottles and jars, and opens to clean the interior walls of the receptacle.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Hunter, Walter L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Brake for Elevators (open access)

Safety-Brake for Elevators

Patent for lateral pawls to brake the elevator in the event of a cable brake.
Date: March 10, 1911
Creator: Mounts, Edison J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolting Reel. (open access)

Bolting Reel.

Patent for a new and improved bolting-reel. This design "relate[s] to bolting-reels for flour-mills; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, having for their object to obtain lightness, strength, compactness, and cheapness of manufacture, as more particularly set forth hereinafter" (lines 8-13).
Date: March 27, 1883
Creator: Phillips, Edwin Samuel & Kealy, Stephen Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges. (open access)

Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges.

Patent for a side rail for suspension bridges that is meant "to provide an improved side railing constituting a truss, which will be light, durable, and of structural simplicity" (lines 20-23).
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail Bag Fastening. (open access)

Mail Bag Fastening.

Patent for a new and improved fastening for mail bags. This design "consists of a chain fixed to one side of the bag so as to swing on the lower edge, and having hooks, or, it may be, curved or straight studs, which are made to pass through eyes of the two sides of the bag and around or through another chain on the other side of the bag, making a very simple fastening that is equally secure as the staple fastening now in use and much more readily manufactured" (lines 7-16).
Date: March 18, 1884
Creator: Scott, Roy B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Cotton Presses. (open access)

Feeder for Cotton Presses.

Patent for a new and improved feeder for cotton presses. This design is "constructed with a receiving-box and a feed-box separated by a sliding plate attached to a follower secured to the piston-rod of a steam-cylinder, to adapt the said feeder to be interposed between a cotton-gin and a baling-press. The inlet and outlet valves of the steam-cylinder are connected by two pairs of connecting-rods with two levers, so that the movements of the piston can be readily controlled" (lines 19-28).
Date: March 10, 1885
Creator: Selz, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Evener (open access)

Draft Evener

Patent for invention that "relates to four-horse draft equalizers, and is well adapted for use on plows-- gang-plows, sulky-plows, and grain-plows-- and may be used also on wagons and other vehicles drawn by horse-power" (lines 8-12). Illustrations are included
Date: March 15, 1902
Creator: Sleight, Milton W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultural Resources Survey within the Artesia Development Site (open access)

Cultural Resources Survey within the Artesia Development Site

A report of a cultural resources survey within the Artesia development site.
Date: March 14, 2005
Creator: Todd, Jesse
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Archaeological Survey Near Roanoke, Texas (open access)

An Archaeological Survey Near Roanoke, Texas

An archaeological survey report of a site near Roanoke, Texas, performed to determine whether any historic resources were located on the proposed construction sites.
Date: March 24, 2002
Creator: Todd, Jesse & Skinner, S. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spinning Top (open access)

Spinning Top

Patent for a spinning top. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Whitefield, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Stock-Guard. (open access)

Railway Stock-Guard.

Patent for railroad stock guard "which when stopped upon will rise up from the center in front of the stock, scare them off, and prevent them from passing over it." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1897
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaft-Tug (open access)

Shaft-Tug

Patent for a support that provides "simple and effective means whereby a shaft may be readily inserted in or removed from the top portion of the tug or support instead of by threading the shaft through the latter." (lines 9-13)
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph & Henderson, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History