Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plowshare, of cutting-knives secured to the rear end thereof and extending rearwardly therefrom in an upward direction, and a bar connecting the mold-board and landside and arranged below the cutting knives" (lines 68-73).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Adair, Richard Harding
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top Support (open access)

Vehicle Top Support

Patent for a vehicle top support. Illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Allen, Luther L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Retainer (open access)

Buggy-Top Retainer

Patent for a buggy top retainer designed to keep the top of a buggy stable as it is driving over rough terrain. Illustrations included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Allison, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrode for Secondary Batteries. (open access)

Electrode for Secondary Batteries.

Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Boyd
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket. (open access)

Well Bucket.

Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Arnold, James S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for improvements in the structure of wheels.
Date: June 23, 1916
Creator: Avery, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions (open access)

Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions

Patent for "new and useful Imporivements in Processes of Recovering Precious Metals from Their Solutions, and which I designate as the 'Sulfuric-Acid Process;' [...] to separate the precious metals from their cyanid solutions in a rapid and thorough matter and to recover the precious metals from solutions thereof." (lines 5-8 & 22-26)
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bahn, Gustavus A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Carrier. (open access)

Trace-Carrier.

Patent for improvements in trace-carriers in which it would “provide each with a buckle or similar means that can be attached to the back-band of a harness for horses. The purpose is to provide means to a trace-chain which may be readily inserted in the carrier to prevent from removal, either accidentally or otherwise, so long as the carrier remains in position for service.” (Lines 12-20) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Barton, Samuel Jones
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: June 23, 2014 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Cecil Bell, Jr.: June 23, 2014

Newsletter of Cecil Bell, Jr. for his constituents in district 3 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature.
Date: June 23, 2014
Creator: Bell, Cecil Ivan, Jr.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Felt Picker (open access)

Felt Picker

Patent for a felt picker. This invention is for use of piano-workmen in making flexible the felts in piano-actions.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bell, William 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
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
Wind Wheel (open access)

Wind Wheel

Patent for wind wheel. Illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Bradford, McDuffee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box. (open access)

Oil Expressing Box.

Patent for a new and improved oil-expressing box. In this design, "the follower is adapted to fit the box, so as to obviate the need of any joint-closing device, and the face of the follower at its side edges is raised to better confine the bag in place, and at its center or central portion is channeled and provided with a false bottom to provide for the escape of the oil" (lines 24-31).
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Cathcart, Rodney S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box Package Shaping Machine. (open access)

Oil Expressing Box Package Shaping Machine.

Patent for a machine which shapes boxes for packaging extracted oils, with description of parts and illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1885
Creator: Cathcart, Rodney S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum. (open access)

Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum.

The production of chewing-gum will become much simpler with the improved patent of chewing-gum.
Date: June 23, 1877
Creator: Cotter, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow (open access)

Disk Plow

Patent for a disk plow. This design of plow provides multiple blades and constructed to be less dangerous to the operator.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Creager, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
Date: June 23, 1874
Creator: Domschke, Carles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Stand. (open access)

Display-Stand.

Patent for incorporating vertical shaft in display stands for posters advertising motion pictures and merchandise, with illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1921
Creator: Gates, Norwood
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Knee Pad (open access)

Pneumatic Knee Pad

Patent for a pneumatic knee pad. Illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Gibbs, Paalgo P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double Acting Pump (open access)

Double Acting Pump

Patent for a double action pump. "This invention relates to improvements in double-acting pumps; and its object is to provide a vertical double-acting pump in which provision is made for automatically exhausting the air from the upper portion of the piston-chamber" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Hall, S. N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leg-Protector. (open access)

Leg-Protector.

Patent for leg-protectors or overalls for cotton-pickers to wear to protect them from the ground. Waterproof material covers the legs of the wearer with leather reinforcement outside the knees. There is spacing around the waste for a belt, and regular fabric forms the rest of the overalls.
Date: June 23, 1896
Creator: Herbelin, Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Load-Transferring Apparatus. (open access)

Load-Transferring Apparatus.

Patent for load transferring apparatus, important for its innovations "applicable to the operation of unloading bulk material from boats or barges and of transferring said material to stationary bins or ships at sea" (lines 11-15).
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Hildebrand, Henry W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Bar and Regulating Lever (open access)

Plow Bar and Regulating Lever

Patent for a plow bar and regulating lever. This invention is to improve regulating depth of plow.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Horton, James L. & Bennett, Dosier A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History