Car-Wheel. (open access)

Car-Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: Clark, Fred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge for Guns. (open access)

Cartridge for Guns.

Patent for "a projectile having an elliptical cross-section and slight longitadinal twist for use in guns provided with a corresponding bore." (lines 8-11), including description and illustrations.
Date: September 24, 1901
Creator: Cole, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: September 6, 1910
Creator: Weber, Charles Wile
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machinery for Irrigating Purposes (open access)

Machinery for Irrigating Purposes

Patent for a machine that irrigates with a water wheel. The water wheel is connected to a float and a rod connected that is connected to a crank on the shaft of the wheel.
Date: September 25, 1888
Creator: Owen, Benajah Dotte
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer. (open access)

Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer.

Patent for a simple and efficient cotton separator and distributor that elevates and moves cotton from a wagon into a gin. It has supply and suction pipes, an air-tight cotton distributing box with an opening on one side and a gravity drop door on the other, a mechanism that moves the box in and out of the line of suction of the pipes, and a group of circular distributing boxes that rotate between the pipes.
Date: September 4, 1894
Creator: Paine, Herbert A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a recess having an enlargement at its central portion, a series of vertical jaws on each side of said enlarged portion of the recess pivotally mounted at their lower end in the draw-head, springs connecting each jaw with its corresponding jaw in the opposite series, and means for opening the jaws" (lines 13-20).
Date: September 23, 1890
Creator: Hooks, Bentley Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed. (open access)

Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16).
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Hollingsworth, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Central Texas, September 2011 (open access)

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

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

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a "self-setting" (line 16) trap with a "tilting platform" (line 17) including an illustration. The trap is designed to retain the animal and is made for easy removal of the animal.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Trull, Harvey L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels. (open access)

Apparatus for Forming Gun Barrels.

Patent for an apparatus for forming gun barrels that twists a sheet of metal into a tube for the gun barrel at a slight angle, while slightly flattening the tube into an oval shape. This method is supposed to create ribs within the gun barrel.
Date: September 10, 1917
Creator: Cole, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Mechanism for Elevators, &c. (open access)

Automatic Weighing Mechanism for Elevators, &c.

Patent for "means for automatically indicating the amount of weight placed" (lines 10-11) within an elevator cage or platform with illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Sanger, Isaac S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Central Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Central Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Central Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: September 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Rotary Weighing-scale. (open access)

Automatic Rotary Weighing-scale.

Patent for an automatically rotating scale for weighing material such as cotton seeds.
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: Henderson, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Watering Plants (open access)

Apparatus for Watering Plants

Patent for improvements in plant-watering apparatuses by inventor Elton F. Reid.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Reid, Elton F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Cooling System (open access)

Automobile-Cooling System

Patent for an improvement to the cooling system of the internal combustion engine of an automobile. "The object of the invention being to provide an improved cooling system of this kind which embodies means for cooling the circulatory water in the radiator by forcing air therethrough and also embodies means for directly cooling the engine by subjecting the same to the action of a blast of air."
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Tenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2016 (open access)

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2016

Annual financial report of the Texas Tenth Court of Appeals documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2016.
Date: September 29, 2016
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (10th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Tenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2017 (open access)

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2017

Annual financial report of the Texas Tenth Court of Appeals documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2017.
Date: September 29, 2017
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (10th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel. (open access)

Wind-Wheel.

Patent for a wind-wheel that "needs no guiding vane or tail, but shall turn in the same direction at all times regardless of the direction of the wind" (lines 8-11). It is a horizontal wind wheel that rotates on a vertical axis. The blades automatically opens on one side and close on the opposite side.
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Walker, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock Mortiser (open access)

Lock Mortiser

Patent for a lock mortiser. The object of this invention "is to provide a light, portable machine arranged to be clamped to the work piece, so that the lock mortise as well as the key hole and the bolt opening may be conveniently cut with one adjustable of the machine" (lines 11-15). Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: New, Luke Mosely
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Electrotype Embossing-Dies (open access)

Method of Making Electrotype Embossing-Dies

Patent for a new method of embossing woven materials (such as lace) onto paper using electrotyping.
Date: September 21, 1915
Creator: Evins, Dossa D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Cowan, Mark L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Cowan, Mark L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Irrigating Plants (open access)

Method of Irrigating Plants

Patent for irrigating plants, trees, shrubs, or others alike by pinpointing where the root has the most moisture to be readily taken up.
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Reid, F. Elton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Press Mat. (open access)

Oil Press Mat.

Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design consists in "having its body portion composed of card-board cut to the size of the press-box, the adjacent faces being covered with sheet metal, which is pressed or stamped into the paper body to give the required cavity, which is bounded by raised margins and transverse ribs struck up from the metal, and supported by paper strips interposed between the layers of card-board, the two leaves of the mat having a leather backing and being hinged together" (lines 15-25).
Date: September 18, 1883
Creator: Osborn, Adelbert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History