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Overton 1893 Sheet 1
Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Overton in Rusk County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date:
1893
Creator:
Sanborn Map Company
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Tightener
Patent for an improvement in belt fasteners, "especially adapted for use in connection with the running belts of planning, sizing, matching, molding and like machines" (lines 10-12) so that belts may be adjusted to tighten or loosen easily.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Noble, John B. & Hensley, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that has an improved land-slide that can be "expeditiously and conveniently removed from the shank plate of the plow, and to so construct the shank plate that the share when placed thereon will be firmly held in position and be prevented from slipping vertically" (lines 10-15). The land-slide and shank-plate are firmly interlocked.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Wherry, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a churn-motor that provides "an improved churn-operating mechanism which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, easy to operate, and readily adjustable for all the purposes for which occasion may require" (lines 15-20).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
McAfee, Henry P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Feeder and Cleaner.
Patent for feeders and cleaners for cotton gins: "provide a combined feeder and cleaner for cotton gins which is not only thoroughly and effectually cleans cotton before it passes to the gin, but at the same time it regularly and positively feeds the cotton to the gin in such cleaned condition" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Oliphint, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and effective cotton chopper that leaves the plants in bunches that is easily operated and uses a reciprocating motion to rotate the blades and chop the stalks.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Hyde, Frank Sule
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History