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Improved Steering and Turning Apparatus for Vessels.
Patent for improvements in steering vessels: "by means of rotary paddle wheels the blades of which are arranged parallel to keel" (lines 21-23).
Date:
May 29, 1866
Creator:
Forshey, Caleb G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties
Patent for an improvement in cotton-bale ties which consists of the construction of the loop-plate.
Date:
May 14, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Nail-Extractors.
Patent for an improved instrument for extracting nails which "will increase its effectiveness in equal ratio with the resistance offered by the object under operation" (lines 13-16) including instruction and illustrations.
Date:
May 14, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Transplanters
Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
Date:
May 28, 1872
Creator:
Cook, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.
Patent for improvement in cotton-lint rooms. These rooms are used with gins that seperate the seeds from the cotton.
Date:
May 13, 1873
Creator:
Crenshaw, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.
Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Royall, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweep.
Patent for sweep that is improved with the addition of a middle-break so that it "will be adapted to do its work thoroughly with the least possible draft and which will not be liable to get out of kilter." (Lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1896
Creator:
Schoenfelder, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Willie, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1898
Creator:
Teague, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Packing-Jar.
Patent for a cylindrical stone packing jar with an ornamental annular rim-flange and an ornament rectangular molding surrounding a smooth-surfaced field or panel.
Date:
May 10, 1898
Creator:
Felscher, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bung-Extractor
Patent for "an improved extractor for the bungs of casks and barrels of all kinds, so that the same can be quickly and conveniently removed from the bung-hole" (lines 8-11).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Cathriner, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box for Vehicles
Patent for axle box for vehicles "in which after the axle and axle-boxes have been worm by use the lost motion can be taken up by interposing a tightening-washer and spring between the axle-box and nut, so the the axle-box of the wheel is restored to the same condition.(10-15)
Date:
May 19, 1903
Creator:
McFarland, Julian
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 48
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate recognizing the Washington County Chamber of Commerce for 100 years of service to the community.
Date:
May 26, 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History