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Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report
Water plan for Region I (East Texas) describing water sources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers and counties, water conservation plans, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan.
Date:
December 1, 2015
Creator:
Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 2. Appendixes
Appendices for the water plan for Region I (East Texas) including water management strategies, water needs, water conservation methods, species of concern in the area, financing methods, and related reports.
Date:
December 1, 2015
Creator:
Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement.
Patent for a mechanical movement using a crank to operate the lazy-tongs through the medium of a pitman, guided by a pair of parallel wires and, a reciprocating bar guided by a socket to produce the reciprocating motion. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 10, 1891
Creator:
Baker, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shears.
Patent for new and improved shears. This design is "adapted to be run along the top of the table or other surface, whereby the movable blade is adapted to be operated so that cloth, paper, or other material may be severed" (lines 9-13). It consists, "with a lower member provided with a handle, of a roller journaled to said member and provided with an elongated eccentric-pin an upper member pivoted to said lower member, and a rearwardly-extending projection from said upper member provided with a suitable elongated opening for the engagement of said pin" (lines 38-46).
Date:
January 20, 1891
Creator:
Baker, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Syrup-Pan
Patent for a syrup pan for boiling down sap into syrup that keeps the solid matter in the pan and only lets the liquid syrup flow out.
Date:
August 6, 1912
Creator:
Baker, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows by providing “a reversible colter adapted to be applied to any style of plow; such as shovel-plows, half or turning shovels, bull-tongue, or other forms of plows. Also to provide a convenient means of attaching and detaching the plow” (lines 12-17). Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Baker, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine.
Patent for a reciprocating steam-engine that both live steam and exhaust-steam may be utilized with a single piston to reciprocate it.
Date:
August 27, 1901
Creator:
Baker, Joseph Clark
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level, Grade, Distance, and Elevation Finder.
Patent for a tool that acts as a combined plumb and spirit level.
Date:
December 19, 1905
Creator:
Barclay, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Ventilation.
Patent for a window ventilator for use in damp or cold weather that blocks the rain or cold, while allowing fresh air to enter the house.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Best, Julius J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Stay.
Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design "consist[s] of wires doubled at their center parts and twisted . . . to form loops . . . and diverged from said twisted parts and attached to the corner portions of the bedstead, and a tension and locking device consisting of a straining-lever fulcrumed to one of the loops and adapted to lock thereon and engaging the other loop" (lines 90-97).
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Bethea, Cade
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Stay.
Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a bed-stay, of wires connected to the corners of the bed-stead, blocks on the wires, loops connected to the blocks, a lever hung to the loop, and a latch device locking the free end of the lever to the loop" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Bethea, Cade
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Skein
Patent for an axle skein that holds the skein on the axle.
Date:
December 20, 1910
Creator:
Bevil, Andrew H. & Bevil, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Data for Orange County and Vicinity, Texas and Louisiana 1971-74
Report detailing the ground-water studies for Orange County, including water measurements, water sample collections, chemical analyses, an inventory of wells, and more.
Date:
December 1975
Creator:
Bonnet, C. W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom.
Patent for a broom designed to allow the straw to be easily changed as often as needed and to hold the straw firmly in place even when considerable pressure is used, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 11, 1922
Creator:
Boyett, Oren K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Article Holder or Stand.
Patent for a device that conveniently and readily supports books, photographs, picture cards, and other similar articles. The new design is formed from a single strand of wire, and is specifically adapted for holding books in an open position and allowing the pages to be turned as needed.
Date:
February 28, 1922
Creator:
Boyette, Oren K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Logging-Truck.
Patent for a logging-truck that is a "simple and convenient apparatus which is operated by a team to raise the logs from the ground, and which thus obviates the necessity of using a hand windlass as is usually done" (lines 14-18). This is used in countries where it does not snow often.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Brough, William, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton compressor
Patent for cotton compressor using platens, bearings, pulleys, levels, rods and shafts.
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Steps
Patent for rail car steps. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car-Brake.
Patent for improvements in electrically controlled car-brakes with the various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes, signaling from car to car or train to car, lighting trains, and other purposes to which it may be adapted, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car-Coupling.
Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes; signaling from car to car, train to car, or vice versa; lighting trains; and other purposes to which it can be adapted, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Connection and Signal for Railway-Cars.
Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to suitable electrically-operated devices throughout a train, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pulley Hub.
Patent for a new and improved pulley-hub. This design "relates . . . to the means employed for attaching the hubs thereof firmly but removably to the shaft upon which the pulleys are mounted; and the object of the invention is to effect improvements upon the well-known 'spline-and-groove' connection. To this end the invention consists of a hub having upon its interior two outwardly-tapering grooves, wedges moving within said grooves, and a screw having a pointed tip passing between the inner ends of the wedges to separate them" (lines 8-20).
Date:
October 14, 1890
Creator:
Collier, William Reid
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring Logs.
Patent for device for measuring logs consisting "of a pair of calipers, a measuring-segment, an arm, a plate, and a disk" (lines 13-14) in order to measure "the number of lumber feet in a log" lines 16-17), including illustrations.
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Cowart, Laurance P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for "an electric head-light which will adjust the carbons of the arc lamp without the usual vibration" (lines 12-14) and be more durable and efficient.
Date:
October 31, 1911
Creator:
Dooley, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History