Folding Car-Step (open access)

Folding Car-Step

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Folding Car-Steps" (lines 5-6) to facilitate easier passenger boarding of rail cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1913
Creator: Mayhew, Edwin B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that connects to other machines, such as cultivators.
Date: April 22, 1913
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that thins out rows of growing cotton plants by destroying the superfluous plants and leaving stands at the proper intervals, including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Copeland, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for improvements to pumps more specifically pumps used in windmills.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Pierson, Hiram W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Hay Press and Baler (open access)

Patent for Hay Press and Baler

Patent for Hay Press and Baler
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Gernigan, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester (open access)

Cotton Harvester

Patent for Cotton Harvester
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Lovejoy, Daniel B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Removing Tool. (open access)

Nut-Removing Tool.

Patent for a tool for removing nuts that have been "upset or beaded around the outer side of the nut" (lines 14-15).
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Carnes, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Harvester.

Patent for a cotton harvesting machine, that is portable and contains a function to transfer cotton "from the picking spindles to a receptacle carried on the machine" (lines 29-30), including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Lovejoy, Daniel B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mother Neff State Park [Rack Card] (open access)

Mother Neff State Park [Rack Card]

Card advertising Mother Neff State Park with brief descriptive information and a summary of activities, facilities, and other features of the location.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas (open access)

Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas

Report studying the central Texas region's water resources, with notes that there has been rapid decline and contamination in the area. The aquifer is also being used faster than it can naturally replenish.
Date: January 1990
Creator: Baker, Bernard; Duffin, Gail; Flores, Robert & Lynch, Tad
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Controlling Mechanism for Windmills. (open access)

Controlling Mechanism for Windmills.

Patent for the operation of a windmill pump that may be automatically controlled so that a constant supply of water will be maintained in the storage tank.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Bradford, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kiln (open access)

Kiln

Patent for improvements to kilns, which include improvements for transferring heat, "burning lime and clay products"(line 11), powdered fuel feeding and preventing unheated air from flowing into the kiln.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill Attachment. (open access)

Windmill Attachment.

Patent for an attachment for hand or windmill pumps in order to reduce stress of upward and load moving strokes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Bertrand, Rabb A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Extracting Device (open access)

Automobile Extracting Device

Patent for an Automobile Extracting Device, which may be readily carried in compact form in one of the storage compartments of a motor vehicle, including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Morrow, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heat-Producing Process. (open access)

Heat-Producing Process.

Patent for Improvements in Heat-Producing Processes by way of "process of producing heat and conserving heat..." for use in various types of furnaces (lines 9-10).
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Chopper. (open access)

Plant-Chopper.

Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1919
Creator: Martin, Silas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History