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Garment-Supporter (open access)

Garment-Supporter

Patent for a benefit and specification of the garment supporters.
Date: September 25, 1906
Creator: Powell, Levi D. & Powell, Albert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Patent for an improvement brick machines that includes "an endless chain of molds at the bottom of the press box [...] in combination with a pressing plate and a cut-off plate" (lines 18-22).
Date: November 2, 1875
Creator: Fisher, Charles N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Boot and Shoe Box. (open access)

Revolving Boot and Shoe Box.

Patent for a new and improved revolving boot and shoe box. This design "consists in the employment of a revolving conoidal or tapering case having a series of compartments arranged one series above another throughout its entire height, and disposed within a surrounding case or inclosure provided with sliding doors" (lines 23-29).
Date: January 9, 1883
Creator: Irvine, William Fielding
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brooms. (open access)

Improvement in Brooms.

Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Anderson, Edward Americus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, August 2, 1955] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, August 2, 1955]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner thanking him for his most recent letter and discussing its content. He discusses a long airport walk, a visit to Plantersville, cotton and corn crops, and business at Texas Prudential Insurance Company.
Date: August 2, 1955
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Mold Board. (open access)

Plow Mold Board.

Patent for a new and improved plow mold board. This design "consists of a circular roll arranged in the mold-board near the point and covered with belting, which, in the forward movement of the plow, is revolved and carries the earth backward on an endless belt passing around rollers journaled in the end of transverse slots made in the mold-board, whereby, in the forward movement of the plow, the belt is revolved and the friction of the earth on the mold-board decreased and the plow scoured" (lines 17-28).
Date: August 22, 1882
Creator: Dahlman, Carl Oscar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Rail Brace. (open access)

Railway-Rail Brace.

Patent for a new railway-rail brace designed "particularly to be used on curves of rail-way tracks, and which ties the rails as to prevent spreading of said rails" (lines 13-16), including illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Barnes, Ned Eastman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle-Gate. (open access)

Railway Cattle-Gate.

Patent for a gate that automatically opens when cattle are crossing and closes afterward, so that the track is unobstructed for trains. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 17, 1897
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M. & Strange, Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint, Chair, and Tie. (open access)

Rail Joint, Chair, and Tie.

Patent for simple, reliable and efficient means to prevent the rails from spreading or sinking at the joins. Also to provide a metal tie designed to pass through the rail chairs at the rail joints.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Frampton, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame (open access)

Quilting-Frame

Patent for "a construction which will be cheap and simple in construction and efficient in its operation and which may be adjusted to hold the quilt with the proper degree of tension at all times" (lines 12-16).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Glacken, Hugh
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint Fastening. (open access)

Rail-Joint Fastening.

Patent for a new improvement in railroad rail joint fastenings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1899
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie And Brace (open access)

Rail Tie And Brace

Patent for rail tie and braces. This invention is designed to couple opposite rails of the road-beds of railways allowing them to be adjusted as occasion requires. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Barnes, Ned E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie and Brace (open access)

Rail Tie and Brace

Patent for a rail tie and brace. Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Frampton, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton Batting. (open access)

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
Method of Baling Cotton. (open access)

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
Railroad Joint and Chair (open access)

Railroad Joint and Chair

Patent for a railroad joint and chair. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Hooper, William N. & Sunday, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint, which does need bolts to fasten it together.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Perkins, Wallace P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ox-Yoke. (open access)

Ox-Yoke.

Patent for a new ox yoke design to reduce wear of the yoke, including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Herren, William Willison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine. (open access)

Insect-Destroying Machine.

Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Dyer, Charles V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect-Destroying Machine

Patent for an agricultural machine to remove insects (especially boll-weevils) from cotton plants.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Dyer, Charles V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect Destroying Machine

Patent for an insect destroying machine. Illustrations included.
Date: December 8, 1903
Creator: Kelley, Michael C. & Terrell, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect - Destroying Machine. (open access)

Insect - Destroying Machine.

Patent for a machine developed for the removal of insects from cotton plants by means of rotary brushes on each side and crushing rolls below the brushes to kill the insects dislodged.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Dyer, Charles V. & Willette, Willie S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg Preserving Apparatus. (open access)

Egg Preserving Apparatus.

Patent for a new and useful egg container for packing, storing, and preserving eggs.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Glacken Hugh
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to T. P. Willaims, November 13, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to T. P. Willaims, November 13, 1951]

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to T. P. Williams inviting him to the annual Kempner family barbecue in Plantersville.
Date: November 13, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History