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Plow Cleaning Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved plow cleaner. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the mold-board of a plow, having parallel longitudinal slots . . . of upper and lower rollers, belts passing around the same beneath the mold-board, scrapers connected to said belts in line with the slots and adapted to pass over said mold-board, and means for rotating said belts" (lines 93-99).
Date:
May 6, 1890
Creator:
Dyer, Charles Valentine.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists, "with a stool having its seat-block perforated centrally, a loose seat, and a depending pusher-bar attached by one end to the loose seat, of a rock-shaft journaled in parallel stretcher-bars, which are secured to legs of the stool, a crank-arm, a bell-crank, an adjustable weight, a ratchet-bar, and a ratchet-wheel revolubly supported" (lines 58-65).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Gilbert, Frank L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton Batting.
Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "consist[s] in, first, folding the cotton in successive layers and slightly compressing the same at their folds; second, severing the web at intervals into sections; third, subjecting the sections successively and independently to compression; fourth, piling the sections; fifth, subjecting the mass thus formed to final compression, and sixth, binding or baling the same while under such compression" (lines 90-100).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photostat Copy of Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1890]
Photostat copy of a receipt for taxes paid on a property in San Jacinto and Montgomery Counties by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of S. J. McAlpine for the year 1890.
Date:
November 7, 1890
Creator:
Darden, S. H. & Walsh, D. H.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Baling Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "is to gin, condense, and bale the cotton in one continuous operation and to so effectually reduce the size of the resulting bale of cotton in this first, original, initial process as to make it of suitable dimensions and density for market or transportation by rail or sea to final destination" (lines 13-19). It consists "in compressing the same in the form of a continuous sheet, lapping said sheet before it has time to expand in the form of a bale, and subsequently applying pressure to expel the air from between the layers" (lines 29-33).
Date:
November 18, 1890
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photostat Copy of Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1891]
Photostat copy of a receipt for taxes paid on a property in San Jacinto and Montgomery Counties by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of S. J. McAlpine for the year 1891.
Date:
November 23, 1891
Creator:
Darden, S. H. & Walsh, D. H.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conroe Enterprise. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1892
Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 1, 1892
Creator:
Mayfield, Fred F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Taxes Paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company, 1892]
Receipt for taxes paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company on behalf of S. J. McAlpine for her property in Montgomery County, Texas.
Date:
December 7, 1892
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1892
Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 23, 1892
Creator:
Cravens, N. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas, the Lone Star State
Real estate brochure for sale of lands in Montgomery County.
Date:
1893
Creator:
Daugherty, J.S.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date:
January 10, 1893
Creator:
McDade, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conroe Enterprise. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1893
Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 20, 1893
Creator:
Mayfield, Fred F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date:
October 3, 1893
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1893
Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 20, 1893
Creator:
Cravens, N. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Montgomery County Taxes, 1893]
Receipt for property taxes paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company to Montgomery County for property owned by S. J. McAlpine for the year 1893.
Date:
November 2, 1893
Creator:
Office of Collector of Taxes
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Willis Index. (Willis, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1893
Weekly newspaper from Willis, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 8, 1893
Creator:
Cravens, N. A.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flood-Gate.
Patent for a flood-gate meant for use in mill-dams, races, and levees. Its intended use is to allow water to come to a certain height, and automatically release water once it gets past that point. When the water returns to a reasonable height, the gate automatically closes.
Date:
December 26, 1893
Creator:
Dean, Asa
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. H. Cox to C. C. Cox, February 22, 1894]
Letter from J. H. Cox to his brother C. C. Cox responding to a previous letter and discussing money. The envelope is included.
Date:
February 22, 1894
Creator:
Cox, J. H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Cooking Materials, April 18, 1894]
Invoice for items sold to C. C. Cox by H. Henke and Company, including salt, flour, vinegar, oil, and related items.
Date:
April 18, 1894
Creator:
H. Henke and Company
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harry Rawson to C. C. Cox, May 4, 1894]
Letter from Harry Rawson to C. C. Cox (written on Missouri, Kansas, and Texas R.R. stationary) discussing Cox's health, and people and events in New Caney, Texas.
Date:
May 4, 1894
Creator:
Rawson, Harry
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Mattress and Bedding, May 8, 1894]
Invoice for items sold to C. C. Cox by L. Gimbel, including a mattress, a quilt and a blanket.
Date:
May 8, 1894
Creator:
Gimbel, L.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. W. Finley to C. C. Cox, May 12, 1894]
Letter from R. W. Finley to C. C. Cox quoting some prices for tools and wheels (possibly for a carriage).
Date:
May 12, 1894
Creator:
Finley, R. W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Cooking Materials, May 18, 1894]
Invoice for items sold to C. C. Cox by H. Henke and Company, including salt, vinegar, flour, meat, and related foodstuffs.
Date:
May 18, 1894
Creator:
H. Henke and Company
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History