79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 61 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 61

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating February 10, 2005, Rusk County Day at the Capitol.
Date: March 1, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "is to promote convenience in operating baling-presses and increase the efficiency of said presses. The invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-20).
Date: March 14, 1882
Creator: Smith, William Fredric
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor. (open access)

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-Chopper. (open access)

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
Canning Apparatus (open access)

Canning Apparatus

Patent for canning apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Brown, William N.; Brown, Clyde V. & Brown, Lester L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post (open access)

Fence-Post

Patent for a fence post
Date: March 10, 1903
Creator: Wherry, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Sheller (open access)

Peanut-Sheller

This patent relates to improvements in the shelling machine and particularly to peanut shelling machines. This patent is to provide a device which will shell a larger quantity of peanuts faster and more efficiently than similar type devices.
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Lambeth, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History