Paving (open access)

Paving

Patent for road paving material with cement as a base and stones or gravel used as a topping. Asphalt is poured over the gravel to extend the life of the paving.
Date: June 24, 1913
Creator: MacDonald, Ray
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows used for agricultural purposes with an illustration. This improvement in design is specific to "provid[ing] a plow capable of being adjusted to cause engagement thereof with the earth at varying depths" (lines 10-12).
Date: June 24, 1919
Creator: Marshall, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Material for Lamp-Wicks. (open access)

Material for Lamp-Wicks.

Patent for a new and improved wick material for lamps.
Date: June 24, 1890
Creator: Chapin, Myron H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cuspidor (open access)

Cuspidor

Patent for a Cuspidor that uses an object to provide a double or reversible cuspidor constructed.
Date: June 24, 1913
Creator: Edwards, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pass Book (open access)

Pass Book

Patent for a book cover that can be easily written on with ink.
Date: June 24, 1914
Creator: Roystone, W.
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 car-coupling formed of two coupling-hooks pivoted on a pivot projecting from the bottom of the car, which coupling hooks pass through an inverted-V-shaped guide-slot in the guide-plate, held in front of the pivot, and the said coupling-hooks are connected with a vertically-moveable bar for raising the coupling-hooks. The coupling hooks are raised and their free ends are pressed together, and if then the coupling-hooks are released they swing downward and their free ends are separated" (lines 7-18).
Date: June 24, 1884
Creator: Grothaus, Frederick E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Determination of Trace Amounts of Sulfur in Fluoride Salts (open access)

Determination of Trace Amounts of Sulfur in Fluoride Salts

A method has been developed for the determination of total sulfur in fluoride salts using the methylene blue procedure. Reduction of sulfate to hydrogen sulfide is achieved through the use of a new reducing mixture consisting of stannous chloride dissolved in concentrated phosphoric acid. The new mixture is effective on microgram amounts of sulfate and offers a major advantage over the red phosphorous reducing mixtures in that larger samples may be taken for analysis. The procedure has been applied to fluoride salts containing from 1 to 500 ppm of sulfur. The coefficient of variation the method is 10 percent.
Date: June 24, 1957
Creator: Gilbert, T. W. & White, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library