Box for Presses (open access)

Box for Presses

Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Galbraith, Oscar B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for Advertising Device
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2 (open access)

Occurrence, Availability, and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 2

The second volume of a two part report on the Creataceous aquifers in Texas. This volume contains information on water wells, water levels, and chemical analyses.
Date: July 1982
Creator: Nordstrom, Philip L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bonham State Park [Rack Card] (open access)

Bonham State Park [Rack Card]

Card advertising Bonham State Park with brief descriptive information and a summary of activities, facilities, and other features of the location.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "the combination of a bar provided with a toothed quadrant and with a boss having an overhanging projection at its rear end, an eccentric pivoted on the face of the said boss for holding the wire against the projection, a hand-lever pivoted to the bar, and provided with a spring-detent engaging with a toothed quadrant, a plate pivoted at one end to the hand-lever and provided with an overhanging projection, and a second eccentric pivoted upon the face of the plate for gripping the wire against the projection" (lines 77-88).
Date: July 19, 1887
Creator: Mason, James Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trawl-Line. (open access)

Trawl-Line.

Patent for a trawl-line that is supported so that it "can be caused to travel continuously in the same or reversed directions at will" (lines 12-14). The invention prevents "the choking of the line supporting pulleys with grasses and other foreign matter, and also to enable the ready adjustment of the pulley son the posts to change the elevation of the trawl-line and the depth of dip of the hooks in the water" (lines 16-21).
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: White, Warren Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.

Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
Date: July 4, 1871
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for "a plow which will effect a clean severance of the sod on the land side when operating in heavy, tenacious soil, and which will prevent the accumulation of rubbish against the edge of the mold-board or standard." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Wood, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter. (open access)

Stalk Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable frame, which is drawn along by two horses, so as to straddle a row of plants, a diagonal guide for guiding the plants, a guiding finger or piece for guiding the plants toward the knife, and a rake for raking the plants in piles or heaps as fast as they are cut" (lines 13-19).
Date: July 3, 1883
Creator: Early, Louis Simeon & Early, Matthias John Bourland
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Power Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Power Presses.

Patent for improved horse-powered press; it "relates to horse or other power presses for cotton, hay, and other compressible materials; and the nature of my invention consists in a reversible stay-brace; in a series of sliding plates, which fill the space between the main standards; in an arm hung to each one of the side doors, regulating the opening of such doors; and in auxiliary devices" (para. 3).
Date: July 25, 1876
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine (open access)

Washing Machine

Patent for a washing machine. Illustration included.
Date: July 12, 1904
Creator: Moreland, Jesse I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separator-Guard. (open access)

Separator-Guard.

Patent for a separator-guard for spinning frames. It prevents "the yarn from being entangled in or caught by the devices for attaching the separators to their support" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1912
Creator: Pitts, Arthur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Motor. (open access)

Wind-Motor.

Patent for a "new and improved wind-motor" (line 10) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James Madison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Dispensing Apparatus. (open access)

Fluid-Dispensing Apparatus.

Patent for improvements to a fluid-dispensing apparatus for fluids such as oil. Safety features relieve air pressure through a valve and a pressure tank.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Catron, John James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Stand. (open access)

Fruit-Stand.

Patent for a fruit stand "so arranged that while the fruit may be freely inspected it cannot be removed from the receptacle without opening the same" (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Roberts, Odineal
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Plows.

Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
Date: July 29, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a turning plow with "a wheel for operating in the bottom of the furrow in rear of the lower end of the standard, which...serves the purposes of an ordinary land side-plate..."(lines 10-13).
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Ausburn, John H. & Ausburn, Vivian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History