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Improvement In Gun-Locks.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Grisham, James Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive clothes pounder that has a conical casing, interior concentric partition, and equal draft and suction. The casing is divided into two compartments, but the divider has openings for air and suds.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Ware, William P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planting Attachment for Plows.
Patent for improvement in corn planting attachment for plows in which the “attachment can be conveniently attached to any plow or furrow-opener” (lines 11-12) as a seed-dropping device. “This device may be retained in a raised or inoperative position.” (Lines 85-86) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Green, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Furnace.
Patent for a furnace adapted for camping and general outdoor use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 21, 1896
Creator:
Underwood, William T. & Underwood, Leroy C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for an ice cream freezer that consists of a can with a joint bearing in the middle, a cover with openings in the center and a central vertical flange, a lid that fits over the central vertical flange, and a shaft with horizontal arms that rotates.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Wallace, Lloyd & Wallace, Jeff Davis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved rotary cultivator. This design is "to lessen the weight on tongue and the down draft while the power is applied more directly to the plows. By this means [the design is] enabled to make the whole frame very light; also, to provide convenient means of adjusting the altitude of the wheels with respect to the plows, so as to regulate the depth of the latter, and also to hold them out of the ground; also, to obtain suitable means for adjusting the plows at any desirable angle to the line of travel, and to throw greater or less soil to or from the plants" (lines 15-26).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Coleman, Benjamin T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator attachment which is designed to be "a guard to protect the young growing crop from being covered by dirt when it is being cultivated." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1894
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson; Griffin, Richard Frankling & Speer, Henry Alson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Legal Document for J. M. Watts, July 6,1880]
Document allowing R.A. Williamson to act on behalf of J.M. Watts at the Democratic Senatorial Convention to be held on July 8, 1880 in Whitney, Texas.
Date:
July 6, 1880
Creator:
Watts, J. M.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 3, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Itasca Item. (Itasca, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, July 26, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Itasca, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 26, 1918
Creator:
Bowman, George W.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-262
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the State Board of Education has the authority to make an adjustment in the economic index and/or local fund assignment of Hill County, and related question.
Date:
July 22, 1968
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator and Mirror-Protector.
Patent for improvements in ventilators and mirror-protectors is to “arranging pendent streamers and a rotatable fan near a mirror that the means for actuating the fan will serve to agitate the streamers for the chasing of flies from the mirror and also ventilate and cool a room by the current of wind produced by the fan.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1902
Creator:
McBride, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating Device
Patent for a heating device. This invention is for using the heat from the device to pass through to an oven for the purposes of cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 14, 1903
Creator:
Henderson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Scraper.
Patent for a road scraper for excavating, which "automatically returns to an upright position after having been dumped" (lines 12-14).
Date:
July 14, 1908
Creator:
Heyer, Friedrich
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for an oil burner for burning crude petroleum and hydrocarbon oils. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Weempe, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers and Dividers.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in measuring instruments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Taulman, Joseph Edwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hillsboro Mirror (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 31, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 31, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hillsboro Mirror (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 17, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 17, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hillsboro Mirror (Hillsboro, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 10, 1889
Weekly newspaper from Hillsboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 10, 1889
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Hubbard City News. (Hubbard City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, July 27, 1906
Weekly newspaper from Hubbard City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 27, 1906
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Grapevine lake holds boat races]
Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a series of motorboat races held at Grapevine Lake. The script goes on to describe a water skiing show and beauty contest at Whitney Lake near Hillsboro.
Date:
July 12, 1953
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guano Distributor
Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date:
July 19, 1912
Creator:
H. D. Pate
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill
Patent for well drill that enables its upper end to be struck without disengaging the cable with an objective to provide simple, inexpensive, and convenient use.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Walker, Merit Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History