Collection
Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
3,410
Congressional Research Service Reports
1,312
Texas Patents
572
Texas Attorney General Opinions
484
Government Accountability Office Reports
460
Technical Report Archive and Image Library
389
Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission
263
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Collection
208
Texas Laws and Resolutions Archive
207
TRAIL Microcard Collection
137
16 More
Degree Discipline
Country
States
Decade
Month
Day
Language
7,397 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. With this design, "[w]hen the cars are coupled, the shoulders upon the draw-heads will bear against each other, pressing the spring-bolts forward, which will tilt the free ends of the bails forward over the ends of the opposite draw-heads, thus forming a strong and safe coupling which may be uncoupled in a moment of time" (lines 92-98).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
Hathaway, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Gatherer.
Patent for a new and improved fruit gatherer. This design consists "[i]n a fruit-gatherer, the combination of the pole, the jaws attached to its upper end, the sliding collar, the links connecting the collar and the sleeve, the rods, the jaws, the ring, the tube attached thereto and encircling the pole below said jaws, and the sleeve which supports the ring and is adjustable on the pole longitudinally for the purpose of adjusting the mouth of said tube in the desired proximity to the said jaws" (lines 13-22).
Date:
September 25, 1888
Creator:
Hall, Francis Asbury
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Bates, General Lowel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 25, 1904
Creator:
Allgood, Walton P. & Allgood, Joseph P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wright, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Cycle Program - A Boiling Water Reactor Research and Development Program: Ninth Quarterly Progress Report July 1962 - September 1962
The Fuel Cycle Program is an integrated program of investigation in the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR) and other facilities to improve the technological limits of boiling water reactors.
Date:
October 25, 1962
Creator:
Howard, C. L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crank
Patent for a crank to provide a starter for an internal combustion engine. If the engine backfires, this crank will ensure that the operator will not be injured.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Bates, Samuel F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for turning and clearing cotton.
Date:
February 25, 1919
Creator:
Goodman, W. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Out Device for Windmills.
Patent for "an improved attachment for wind mills, whereby the mill may be thrown out of gear automatically when the supply tank becomes filled" (lines 9-13). It includes an illustration and description of the components.
Date:
June 25, 1918
Creator:
Pennington, Phil M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Device
Patent for cotton-picking device. The object of the invention is to provide a novel and improved device for picking cotton by hand. Patent is for the protection of the digits.
Date:
January 25, 1921
Creator:
Vincent, George Hilliard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for a fumigator for fumigating crops that can spray two rows at a time.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Lee, Oliver W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Current-Motor.
Patent for a current motor, which allows a smaller amount of water to be used to generate power for factories, irrigation equipment, and pumping devices.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Brewer, Alden R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for a fumigator for driving out flies or mosquitoes from rooms with kerosene gas.
Date:
May 25, 1909
Creator:
Hauck, Jacob
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester
Patent for a cotton harvester. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Sewell, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter
Patent for "a planter-carriage frame adapted to carry a cotton-seed hopper having novel and peculiar means for feeding the cotton-seed in planting the same, so that the same frams may be employed for both hopper without alteration of either hopper or frame" (lines 11-17).
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Morrison, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Hobble
Patent for an improved cultivator hobble, including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Hackfeld, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for an improved cotton harvester that is lighter and cheaper to manufacture and "is capable of operating upon two rows of standing cotton and the same time, and to economically harvest the cotton and deliver the same into a suitable receptacle" (lines 16-20), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Upshaw, Lucius L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed Planter
Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date:
February 25, 1901
Creator:
Mills, William Cairill
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Dropper.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the frame, the roller journaled in the rear side thereof and having the crank, the seed-spout, the supporting bars on opposite sides of the frame, the rigid shaft connecting the said bars, the seed-disk rigidly secured to the said shaft and having the curved fingers or teeth, the hopper journaled on the shaft and adapted to oscillate thereon, the said hopper having the discharge-opening in its lower side, through which the lower edge of the seed-disk connects, and the pitman connecting the crank with the hopper" (lines 26-37).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Ballard, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carrier.
Patent for cotton-sack carriers "which will offer no impediment to the free movements of the picker," and constructed "such that the ends of the carrier will not engage and 'hang' upon the stalks of cotton, and will pass readily over irregularities in the surface of the field." (Lines 22-38) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Johns, Calvin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that compresses "cotton as it is delivered from the gin into convenient shape and size of bundle, for facilitating the transportation thereof" (lines 12-15).
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for a cotton-harvester meant to pick the ripe cotton but leaves the plants or unripe cotton and to improve the construction of cotton-harvesters.
Date:
February 25, 1896
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for improvements to sled cultivators.
Date:
September 25, 1917
Creator:
Howard, Quinton S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. This invention relates to pneumatic cotton-pickers using a suction box for detaching bolls of cotton from pods. Illustration included.
Date:
July 25, 1905
Creator:
Hyde, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History