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Two Wheeled Vehicle.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which a person can ride over rough ground without serious inconvenience or discomfort incident to travel over such roads. . . . [and] to so construct a gig that a person can get into the same without serious inconvenience, and to this end it is made low, the rear of the shafts being extended in line with the axle and the step secured to the shaft and extending somewhat below it. . . . [and] to provide a gig with springs that will work in two directions—laterally and vertically" (lines 20-34).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Buckel, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Bale Binder.
Patent for a new and improved cotton bale binder. This design "consists of a simple contrivance for binding cotton and other bales together when loaded on flat cars to prevent the load from being shaken apart and separated by the shocks and jolts of the car, and also to prevent the bales from being pulled off by cotton thieves, the said contrivance consisting of two or more hooks having pulleys or eyes strung on a rope, the rope being fastened to one of the eyes or pulleys forming one end of the binder, the hooks being caught in the bands of the bales" (lines 7-18).
Date:
May 8, 1883
Creator:
Burr, Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel for Outhouses.
Patent for a new and improved barrel. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel-head having the opening, of the cover adapted to close said opening, the bolt extending through said cover and into the barrel, the clamping bar longer than the width of said opening in the barrel-head, said bar being centrally pivoted by a rivet to the lower end of said bolt, and a nut screwed upon the upper end of said bolt for clamping said cover in position" (lines 16-25).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design consists "[i]n a refrigerating apparatus, the combination of a trap cylinder communicating with a horizontal cylinder which unites two vertical piston-cylinders, said piston-cylinders having suction and compression valves arranged at their upper ends in a cap having separate communications with suction pipes with compression-pipes communicating with said trap-cylinder" (lines 44-52).
Date:
May 12, 1885
Creator:
Conacher, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-bar having a socket and buffer-prongs on its ends, of a ball in the socket, coupling-hooks pivoted between jaws connected with the ball, a weighted stem projecting from the ball, and a sliding latch-rod for engaging with the stem and automatically releasing it when the cars come together" (lines 8-15).
Date:
May 19, 1885
Creator:
Hampl, Joseph & Jacobs, David
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3162, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 1, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3163, Ed. 1 Monday, May 3, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 3, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3164, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 4, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 4, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3165, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3166, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 6, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3167, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 7, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3168, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 8, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 8, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3169, Ed. 1 Monday, May 10, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 10, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3170, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 11, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 11, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3171, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 12, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 12, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3172, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 13, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 13, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3173, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 14, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3174, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 15, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3175, Ed. 1 Monday, May 17, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 17, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3176, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 18, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 18, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3177, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 20, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3178, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 21, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3179, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 22, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 22, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freie Presse für Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3180, Ed. 1 Monday, May 24, 1880
Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 24, 1880
Creator:
Hanschke, Robert
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History