Resource Type

Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Smith, Columbus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clevis. (open access)

Clevis.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Taylor, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the body, or receptacle and its cover, of the dasher having a frame provided with inner apertured or perforated corner blocks and journaled in the body or receptacle, and a second apertured or perforated cross-shaped dasher journaled within the other dasher, the tripod-frame comprising the arched meeting side bars, and a third connecting-bar having an aperture, through which the upper end of the inner dasher-staff passes, the three-armed brace having a gudgeon or shaft" (lines 41-52).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Lines, Daniel & Long, Charles T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Combined Cultivator and Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for a new implement "for planting cotton-seed, cultivating the soil, and covering the soil" (lines 14-15) and corn (line 61) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: McCall, Duncan Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge. (open access)

Gate-Hinge.

Patent for "an adjustable hinge for use in connection with a suitable upper hinge, for supporting gates in such manner as to permit of their being opened in either direction and allowed to close automatically," and which "also allows the gate to be adjusted to suit the inclination of its supporting-post, or to have its outer end elevated to a sufficient degree to permit dogs and other small animals to pass freely under same when closed." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Westmoreland, Hugh S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Central Texas, June 2011 (open access)

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

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

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an improved bale-tie with a description of the tool and specifications for its usage, includes illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1878
Creator: Rutherford, William Bryson & Hawkins, Joel Turnham
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tatting-Shuttle (open access)

Tatting-Shuttle

Patent for an improved tatting shuttle. This new shuttle will hold multiple bobbins and shuttles to carry multiple colors of threads.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Wolle, Leonora
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a quilting frame that can be operated by one person easily, as well as compacted to store in small storage areas, is portable and durable. The frame will also give cotton stabilization while working with a quilt. The quilting frame will also not need heavy maintenance.
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Wilkerson, Nannie C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History