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Caster.
Patent for a new and useful caster to be "applied to light and heavy furniture" (line 13-14).
Date:
September 13, 1898
Creator:
Gluck, Solomon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful buggy top attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Peikert, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp.
Patent for a new and useful clamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 15, 1898
Creator:
Hauff, Isaac F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothing - Boiler
Patent for a new and improved clothing-boiler. This design is to "provide a device of this character in which there is practically no danger of the water or suds-boiling over to the exterior" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Rylander, William Pitts
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bell County
Blue line print of survey map of Bell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, roads, and railroads. A handwritten note in red pen reads, "Shown but not named on the Williamson County map of Jan. 8, 1856." Scale [ca. 1:228,571] (6000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date:
1896
Creator:
Von Rosenberg, E.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Hawkins, Jackson D. & Ray, Francis M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a vertical hook car coupling that also couple air-brakes. In the invention "the drawheads are provided with interlocking tongues to prevent the disconnection of the drawheads by vertical movement; the interlocking faces of the drawheads are provided with sockets to receive a plug for completing the air passage for the train pipes; the drawheads are provided with means for receiving the ordinary hose-coupling on cars not provided with [the] drawhead, and finally other features of [the] invention are the means for securing the drawhead to the car and for uncoupling" (lines 14-25).
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Ervin, Robert N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars
Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is "to place two baling-chambers at a suitable angle to each other and to connect both of the followers to the same sweep; to attach each of the filling-doors of the baling-chambers to the sweep, so that when one door closes from its own weight the other will be opened by the movement of the sweep, and to provide each of the filling doors with an automatically-acting bolt mechanism, whereby the movement of the follower bolts the door, so that it cannot be opened upward by the pressure of hay that is being pressed" (lines 15-26).
Date:
March 4, 1890
Creator:
Spencer, Anderson Hood
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Cutter and Feeder.
Patent for an improvement of band-cutters, involving cutting bands and spreading grain in regulated quantities and intervals. Includes illustration.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Izard, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for an improvement of a corn-planter using a combinations of, a rotary seed plate that has a circumferential series of perforations, a spherical weight or ball acts as ejector, and a hopper that has a circular opening on the bottom to work together “to prevent too large quantities of seed from entering the seed-cups, but which shall also serve to forcibly eject the seeds at the proper time” (lines 19-22), illustration is included.
Date:
February 10, 1891
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sunday Morning Call. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 17, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 3, 1897
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 3, 1897
Creator:
Crawford, A. R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Belton Reporter. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 27, 1892
Weekly newspaper from Belton, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 27, 1892
Creator:
Denison, Mrs. F. L. & Denison, Frank L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for "an automatic clothes washer and soaper whereby the clothes are soaped and cleansed by one and the same operation." (Lines 18-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1897
Creator:
Rylander, William P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for improvements in beehives: "invention is to improve the construction of beehives and to provide a simple and efficient one, which will permit food to be readily supplied to the bees when desired and enable the apiarian to have him to cut bee entrances to the same." (lines 9-15).
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Tucker, John Q.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Machine.
Patent for a cotton-baling machine that compresses cotton between two pressure-rolls and rolls it around a core. This invention improves "the mode of applying pressure to the pressure rolls, and [improves] the manner of mounting the core-roll in position within the compress, and for facilitating the removal of said core-roll; and the elevation therefrom of the compress-roll" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, July 14, 1899
Newspaper from Temple, Texas, published twice a week, that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 14, 1899
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1895
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 6, 1895
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 28, 1898
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1891
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 6, 1891
Creator:
Crow, J. D. & Bitzer, J. H.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 11, 1898
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 10, 1891
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 10, 1891
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 25, 1898
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Temple Weekly Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 11, 1890
Weekly newspaper from Temple, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 11, 1890
Creator:
Crow, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History