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Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay. (open access)

Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.

Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
Date: September 24, 1872
Creator: Lea, Pryor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material. (open access)

Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.

Reissued patent for a chemical process to create a plastic material made of bitumen, clay, and mineral and/or fossil substances.
Date: September 26, 1876
Creator: Lea, Pryor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press (open access)

Hay-Press

Patent for improvements in hay presses "to simplify and cheapen the construction and render it more efficient in the formation of the hay into bales" (lines 16-18).
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: McNeill, Charles De Witte
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for Wrench
Date: September 12, 1916
Creator: Ponton, Henry H
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, September 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, September 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper South Texas area.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism for Cotten-Gins (open access)

Feeding Mechanism for Cotten-Gins

Patent related to cotton ginning plants, providing an improvement to the "mechanism controlling the feeding of the cotton supplied to the gins" (lines 13-14).
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Riemenschneider, Adolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History