Seed-Planter (open access)

Seed-Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Williams, Paul Eaton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch (open access)

Railway Switch

Patent for railway switch. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Reynolds, John I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shade and Curtain Bracket. (open access)

Shade and Curtain Bracket.

Patent for shade and curtain brackets. This invention allows the brackets at opposites sides of the window frame to be easily adjusted to receiver shade rollers or curtain poles.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Reisner, Carl T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Tooth Harrow (open access)

Spring-Tooth Harrow

Patent for a spring tooth harrow that may be converted into a rake. Illustrations included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Piester, Laval M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap (open access)

Fly-Trap

Patent for a fly trap. Illustrations included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Ramsey, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Place Heater. (open access)

Fire Place Heater.

Patent for a new and improved fire-place heater. This design "is to provide an inexpensive fire-place heater, constructed so that it may heat two or more rooms on the same floor of a building, and with a single fire, so as to economize fuel and labor of attendance" (lines 7-11).
Date: June 2, 1885
Creator: Bartlett, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for a fertilizer distributer. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Murry, Henry A. & Evans, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fanning-Machine. (open access)

Fanning-Machine.

Patent for improvements in fanning-machines by making the fanning-machine portable, so that it “can be placed upon a table or other support or attached to a bed, chair, lounge, or seat of any kind;” (lines 18-21) it also can keep away flies and insects from people. Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Wallace, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Swaging Machine. (open access)

Saw-Swaging Machine.

Patent for an improved saw-swaging machine that is used as "an anvil-die and an independent roller-die" (lines 17-18). "The saw may be swaged from the front of the tooth without scalloping or concaving the tooth and at the same time avoiding friction thereon" (lines 21-24).
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Shepley, Benjamin A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Inmate Monthly Report: [May 2021], Part 2 (open access)

Texas Inmate Monthly Report: [May 2021], Part 2

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: June 2, 2021
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Concrete Walls, Blocks, & c. (open access)

Process of Making Concrete Walls, Blocks, & c.

Patent for a new and improvement Process of Making Concrete Walls, Blocks for sills, steps, and walks
Date: June 2, 1885
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Caster. (open access)

Spring-Caster.

Patent for spring casters. "The principal object of the invention is to construct a caster in such a manner that an adequate resilient support will be obtained for the bed without the use of a spring mattress of like device" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Smith, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for improvements in quilting-frames in which it “can be used either with or without a sewing-machine. Several lines can be quilted without having to roll the quilt. The frame is suspended from above, preferably upon a wire or cord, and so arranged that it may be moved in any direction desired.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal Chair. (open access)

Metal Chair.

Patent for a cheap metal chair that can be disassembled and reassembled easily.
Date: June 2, 1917
Creator: Wendell, Peter P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pinless Clothes-Line. (open access)

Pinless Clothes-Line.

Patent for "pinless clothes-lines consisting of a series of wire sections connected loosely together at their adjacent ends by means of rings or links, each section having formed on its ends suitable spring-clamps to engage the articles of apparel hung on the line." (Lines 18-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Sterzing, Fred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus. (open access)

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a new game apparatus that can be playing indoors or outdoors and made in both large and small sizes "in which the elements, of chance, skill, and endurance constitute important factors in the successful playing of said game." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Schuler, Joseph & Overbeck, Harry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism For Printing Press (open access)

Feeding Mechanism For Printing Press

Patent for "an improved mechanism whereby the paper or other material is automatically fed to the press in web or continuous form and automatically cut off in the desired lengths as it passes from the feeding mechanism" (lines 23-26).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Prescott, Sitwell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check. (open access)

Door-Check.

Patent for an improvement on door-stops meant to "check the door at any point in its traverse and at the same time serve as a door fastening and stop" (lines 14-16). It is hand adjustable operating-rod.
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Campbell, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dustless Trousers Cabinet. (open access)

Dustless Trousers Cabinet.

Patent for improvement of construction of display cabinets in stores.
Date: June 2, 1915
Creator: O'neal, Simean
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings “with means for elevating the coupling-link without the necessity of the brakeman going between the cars, and also to provide means for holding the coupling-pin out of engagement with the link when the cars are uncoupled, said pin being automatically released when the cars come together, so that it will fall by gravity and engage with said link.” (Lines 17-25) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Hamilton, Weston G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Development Section C Progress Report for December 1960 and January 1961 (open access)

Chemical Development Section C Progress Report for December 1960 and January 1961

Test work was completed on development of a stripping method for the amine extraction (Amex) process which produces a concentrated uranyl nitrate solution for shipment to the refinery. This procedure offers potential cost savings by simplifying the overall mill-refinery flowsheet. The process involves treatment of the amine extract with calcium nitrate solution to convert the uranium in the solvent to a nitrate complex, stripping the uranium with water or dilute nitric acid, and recovery of nitrate from the solvent for recycle by contact with a lime slurry.
Date: June 2, 1961
Creator: Brown, K. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library