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Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, June 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, June 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper East Texas area.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil Attachment. (open access)

Pencil Attachment.

Patent for a pencil attachment that holds a picture that is designed to have a picture mounted in an opening of the pencil. When the opening is held close to the viewer's eye, the image is magnified. The main purpose of the device is to be used for advertising or souvenirs.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Tippit, Thomas Oland
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop (open access)

Folding Coop

Patent for a new more durable folding coop that folds up quickly and easily, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 26, 1917
Creator: Martin, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector. (open access)

Knee-Protector.

Patent for a knee protector that enables the wearer to fasten the device to the knee and includes a frame and knee receiving pocket.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Russel, Callie B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint Chair. (open access)

Rail-Joint Chair.

Patent for a new rail-joint chair used in the connection between rails to prevent rail movement, including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Williams, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Brander (open access)

Animal Brander

Patent for an animal brander with interchangeable characters and a holder for the characters.
Date: June 3, 1913
Creator: Hayes, Monard Vinson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Shaeffer, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer (open access)

Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer

Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer (open access)

Stalk-Puller, Seeder, and Pulverizer

Patent for an implement for pulling stalks, seeding, planting, and pulverizing the ground. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bogue, Robert Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Bait (open access)

Artificial Bait

Patent for an artificial bait. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. This invention consists of a vertically disposed rotatable dasher. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Lavender, Samuel C.; Chennault, Steven A. & Chennault, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Cleaner (open access)

Gin Saw Cleaner

Patent for a gin-saw cleaner. The invention "relates to gin-saw cleansers and tooth-straighteners, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which will be simple of construction, efficient in operation, and one in which the saw-engaging knives or members may be simultaneously adjusted to regulate them for operation upon saws which are spaced apart a greater or lesser distance" (lines 8-16) illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Stanifer, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ligthtning-Arrester. (open access)

Ligthtning-Arrester.

Patent for improving lightning arresters, an invention used to distribute electrical current over a large area and ground it at a different points should a building be struck by lightning.
Date: June 15, 1901
Creator: Wood, William D.; Roach, Henry B. & Pots, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1899
Creator: O'Marrow, Mattie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Detergent Compound. (open access)

Detergent Compound.

Patent for an all-purpose detergent composed of water, lye, ammonia, borax, indigo, and mountain balm. Includes instructions.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Fair, William Brownlow
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement. (open access)

Turping Implement.

Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date: June 21, 1892
Creator: Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine (open access)

Adding-Machine

Patent for "an adding-machine which, while being constructed of but comparatively few parts, will be so adjusted as arranged as to allow an operator to make rapid and correct calculations; furthermore, to produce an adding-machine in which the operator will be enabled to detect immediately any mistake which he may have made, and, finally, to produce a simple, efficient, and effective adding-machine" (lines 13-22).
Date: June 25, 1889
Creator: Stinson, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "a draft-bar, a connecting rod or bar which connects the two beams together at any suitable distance . . . vertical standards which are secured to the rear ends of the beams, adjustable connecting-bars . . . and a connecting-rod which connects the bars together in a line with the beams . . . to loosely attach two cultivators to a single draft-bar, and then connect these two cultivators together . . . [so] each of the cultivators has a universal movement independently of the other, and yet they are always kept at about the same distance apart" (lines 15-32).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: De Witt, Martin V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace Lock for Harness. (open access)

Trace Lock for Harness.

Patent for a new and improved trace-lock for harnesses. This design consists in "the combination of the bolt, the metal strap secured to the trace, provided with the recess, the projection, and the slot having the enlarged opening, the locking-plate pivoted on the recess having the opening, and the spring" (lines 72-77).
Date: June 26, 1888
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Tool (open access)

Dental Tool

Patent for a dental tool that is to "prevent the loss of amalgam" (p. 2).
Date: June 19, 1888
Creator: Morris, James P., of Paris, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design consists in "the plate having the outstanding lugs, the retaining arms pivoted to one of said lugs, the detent between said lugs, and the locking-bolts having the head portion and the corrugated shank" (lines 64-68).
Date: June 19, 1888
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n combination with the base, the frame having the cross-bars, churn provided with a dasher-shaft, a second shaft passing through cross-bars and connected with the dasher-shaft, pinions . . . secured to the shaft and adapted to rest upon the cross-bars . . . a[nother] shaft journaled in [one of] the cross-bar[s], and a mutilated gear engaging the pinions" (lines 16-24).
Date: June 5, 1888
Creator: Crawford, William H.
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 "[t]he combination, with the draw-head having the downwardly and forwardly inclined floor and the floor slot or opening, of the coupling-bar having a curved or angular lever secured to its rear end and extending first downward through said opening and then under the draw-head" (lines 82-88).
Date: June 30, 1885
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History