Wash Boiler. (open access)

Wash Boiler.

Patent for a new and improved laundry boiler. This design consists in "a partition at its lower end slightly above the bottom formed with a screw-threaded neck at its center, a perforated tube fitting with its lower end upon the neck and having its upper end closed, and a number of perforated triangular tubes upon the side of the boiler provided with stoppers at their upper ends and extending from the partition in the lower end of the boiler, and a rack consisting of rings connected at their upper edges by cross-pieces" (lines 76-86).
Date: October 5, 1886
Creator: Fountain, Henry Stephen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk and Straw Chopper. (open access)

Stalk and Straw Chopper.

Patent for "improvements to stalk, straw and weed choppers for attachment to plows" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Gray, Wallace W. & Witzsche, Frank P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Auger. (open access)

Post Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-auger. This design "is to improve that class of post-augers whose blades are made adjustable so as to make large or small holes. They have ordinarily been adjusted by means of a bolt, nut, and slot in the blade; but the blades work out of correspondence with each other, the nuts becoming more or less loosened. [This design] dispense[s] with bolt, nut, and slot" (lines 15-23).
Date: October 22, 1889
Creator: Harris, Green Berry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocker. (open access)

Cotton Blocker.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-blocker. This design "relates to cotton-blockers . . . to be applied to cultivators; and the object of the invention is to provide a blocker and mechanism for operating it which may be applied to cultivators of any construction, and with but little trouble, and to provide a hoe-blade which will clear itself of dirt and weeds and make a regular and steady stroke" (lines 11-18).
Date: October 4, 1887
Creator: Jordan, James Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin (open access)

Cotton Gin

Patent for "new and improved Cotton Gin" (line 5).
Date: October 3, 1900
Creator: Lumpkin, Robert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow where a stock or standard is pivoted to and adjustably connected with the beam which features improvements in construction, arrangement, and combination of parts.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Reeves, Beverly Gray
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Brace (open access)

Rail Brace

Patent for a rail brace system.
Date: October 17, 1916
Creator: Sencetta, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching Implement (open access)

Wire Stretching Implement

Patent for a wire stretching implement. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1904
Creator: Smith, Isaac
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040 (open access)

I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040

None
Date: October 2016
Creator: Texas. Transportation Planning and Programming Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History