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Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists "of the wheel having the series of arms, the V-shaped fenders secured thereto, the rim having offsets and tapering side edges, the hoe-bars having rollers, and overlapping hoes at their outer ends" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 14, 1889
Creator:
Woodbury, Amasa O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Jointing, Gaging, and Setting Saws.
Patent for a new and improved device for jointing, gauging, and setting saws. This design consists "[i]n a saw-jointer and gage . . . the body-plate or block, having laterally extending arms, a groove extending entirely through the said arms, overhanging flanges extending from the said arms, a slot in the bottom of the groove forming an open space between the flanges, and a flat spring secured in the groove, facing the flanges" (lines 28-35).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Cummings, Virgil T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "has relation to door-checks . . . for retaining a door or gate in any desired opened position; and it has for its objects to provide such a door-check in which the holding or clamping mechanism of the check is operated automatically from the latch or knob of the lock, to provide a strong brace for retaining the door in its adjusted position . . . a bolt casing slides upon a rail carried at the upper edge of the door and has a bolt operated from the lock of the door for engaging the said rail, and in which a brace or arm is pivoted to the door-frame" (lines 8-26).
Date:
August 14, 1888
Creator:
Scarborough, William Daily
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check
Patent for "improved door-check for retaining the door in any desired open position. . . of very simple construction controlled by connection with the knob of the door" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Scarborough, William Daily
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W.S. Peters to M.A. Spoonts - September 9, 1886]
Letter written to M.A. Spoonts from W.S. Peters concerning the logistics of selling of a plot of land.
Date:
September 9, 1886
Creator:
Peters, W. S.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trinity County
Cadastral map of Trinity County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Several features are marked including the center of the county. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date:
1882
Creator:
Schmidt, V.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History