Development and Production History on the Salt Flat and Other Fault Fields of East Central Texas (open access)

Development and Production History on the Salt Flat and Other Fault Fields of East Central Texas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the Salt Flat fields in East Central Texas. As stated in the introduction, "this report deals with the development and production history of the Salt Flat field and gives comparative data on five outstanding fault fields. Two of these fields are producing from limestone and three from sandstone reservoirs" (p. 2-3). This report includes tables, maps, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Hill, Harry Blackburn; Bauserman, E. V. H. & Carpenter, C. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton-Blocking Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Cotton-Blocking Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for an attachment for cultivators for arranging blocks of cotton onto a stand. Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Horner, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has a hoe on one side and a cultivator on the other.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Dittrich, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churning Machine (open access)

Churning Machine

Patent for a churning machine that pumps liquids. It is designed to reduce materials used in this labor. This machine will also improve the quality of the labor and decrease the cost of this labor.
Date: December 6, 1905
Creator: Van Dusen, Henry L
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device. (open access)

Photographic-Printing Device.

Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Brown, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Locking Shafts in Hubs or Couplings. (open access)

Device for Locking Shafts in Hubs or Couplings.

Patent for a new and useful device for locking shafts in hubs or couplings. This design is to "avoid the use of a key-way in the shaft and o provide the tubular member with a removable and reversible key having a serrated face adapted to be forced into close contact" (line 12-16).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Rylander, Parrish H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Blocking Attachment. (open access)

Cotton-Blocking Attachment.

Patent for a cotton blocking attachment for cultivators.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Horner, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Shelf for Store-Ladders (open access)

Detachable Shelf for Store-Ladders

Patent for a store shelf for holding goods that is removable and may also be used as a ladder. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Ridout, George Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate. (open access)

Automatic Gate.

Patent for an automatic gate that can be unlatched and opened by a vehicle approaching; and then, closed and latched again after passage of the vehicle. The automatic gate is reliable, not easily deranged, and simple in construction.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Laas, Louis August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Freeze, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator (open access)

Disk Cultivator

Patent for an improved "disk cultivator that will be adapted for the various purposes to which such devices are ordinarily applied. The invention consists in certain details of construction and combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 13-18)
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Brock, Andrew L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts faster and more accurately than other models and sends the waste cotton and weeds to one side.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Winkler, Christoph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a new churn with a simplified and improved construction, includes illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: New, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Conley, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press which uses less power to press hay the same tightness as current baling presses.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Smith, Ernest D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Ironing-Table. (open access)

Folding Ironing-Table.

Patent for an ironing-table that can be folded compactly while not in use and prevents accidental collapsing. The two legs at the narrower end of the table are a solid piece of wood until halfway, at which point they separate into separate legs and a fastening device is attached with a hinge. A brace can be attached with the fastening device that both sets of table legs in place. Both sets of legs and the brace fold up for storage.
Date: November 24, 1896
Creator: Rylander, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.
Date: April 25, 1893
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose or Pipe Coupling. (open access)

Hose or Pipe Coupling.

Patent for a hose or pipe coupling that automatically couples cars, and uncouples one or more pipes are automatically uncoupled by steam, air, or fluid pressure. The "invention consists of a pair of twin couplers through each of which one or more tubes are conducted, the apertures of which in the face of one coupler register with those in the face of the opposite coupler, each coupler being provided with guides or other suitable means for bringing it into alignment with the other and with a bolt or latch which automatically engages the opposite coupler when they are brought together and is released by steam or other pressure through one of the connecting pipes, in order to uncouple; and it further consists in a valve connection with said coupler pipes whereby the connecting pipe or pipes are closed in the act of uncoupling" (lines 13-28).
Date: August 15, 1893
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin Feeder. (open access)

Cotton Gin Feeder.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin feeder. This design consists in "a rectangular inclined box, endless feeding belts having spiked slats, the revolving fan at the upper end of the inclined box, and screen at the opposite end and lower side of the box, through which the sand and dirt from the cotton may escape, the current of air from the revolving fan assisting in expelling the sand and dirt, the latter falling between the slats and down the inclined bottom of the box and out through the screen" (lines 73-83).
Date: June 22, 1886
Creator: Wiley, Jesse G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date: June 12, 1888
Creator: Beach, Philemon Theodore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date: July 10, 1888
Creator: Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Sack. (open access)

Cotton-Picker's Sack.

Patent for improvements in a cotton-picker's sack, allowing for easy access to deposit and empty picked cotton while remaining nearly closed to hold and protect the cotton.
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Cliett, Taylor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator. (open access)

Disk Cultivator.

Patent for a disk cultivator that can be used without supporting wheels, and cuts stalks or tracks while cultivating. It is also adjustable in both height and width.
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Brock, Andrew L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe-Nail Clincher. (open access)

Horseshoe-Nail Clincher.

Patent for an improved simple and efficient clincher for horseshoe nails. It consists of a serrated jaw with a beveled extension, a handle, and two plates that act as springs.
Date: January 2, 1894
Creator: Seeliger, Oswald
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History