Attachment for Vehicle-Seats. (open access)

Attachment for Vehicle-Seats.

Patent for "a vehicle seat and more particularly to a device securable to the under portion of a seat and engaging the side walls of the wagon body so that the seat will be prevented from shifting transversely of the vehicle" (lines 9-14).
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Jackson, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blade. (open access)

Blade.

Patent for a new blade similar to "weed blades" (line 10) that can be "attached to a cultivator" (line 11) and includes an illustration.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Kelly, John H. & Mershon, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can (open access)

Can

Patent for a can. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Hanna, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet-Seat. (open access)

Closet-Seat.

Patent for a toilet seat that helps support users with rectal diseases.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Ellis, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Handle and Toilet Case. (open access)

Combined Handle and Toilet Case.

Patent for a new and improved toiletry case. This design consists in "[a] combined hollow parasol or umbrella handle and toilet-case, consisting of an ornamental hollow case having an end opening for the reception of a parasol or umbrella stick, its opposite end provided with a rigid extension-ring, a hinged cover provided with a mirror on its inner face and working against the tension of a coiled spring, and an end lip to said cover to contact with end spring secured to said case, the internal portion of said case divided to receive visiting-cards, face-powder, pads, a curved spring, and cloth-lining" (lines 20-31).
Date: July 26, 1887
Creator: Myers, Ida Louise
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air and Steam Apparatus for Sinking Wells (open access)

Compressed-Air and Steam Apparatus for Sinking Wells

Patent for "a simple and inexpensive apparatus for drilling the rock and earth until sufficient loose material has accumulated in the shaft, and then remove such material by the pressure of an aeriform fluid - such as steam or compressed air" (lines 23-29).
Date: July 16, 1889
Creator: Goodrich, Hervey K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for an improved method of locating the air blast apparatus for cleaning lint from the saw teeth of saw-type cotton gins, so that the cotton lint does not accumulate on the cleaning apparatus and render it inoperative, including illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hopper, James F.; Stephens, George B. & Young, Harry F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "consist[s] of the hopper, the tapering feed-tube, the distributing-chamber provided with inwardly-projecting radial pins, the discharge-spout, and the shaft provided at its upper end with stirrer pins, at its middle part with a tapering feed-screw, and at its lower part with distributing pins" (lines 9-15).
Date: July 15, 1884
Creator: Hopper, Thomas Pinkney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cradle. (open access)

Cradle.

Patent for a new and improved cradle. This design "has for its object to provide a hanging cradle suspended from its [frame] . . . being arranged in such a manner whereby the cradle is capable of being moved . . . in an easy, uniform, and steady motion without the danger of tilting over" (lines 8-16). It consists in "[a] swinging cradle comprising the folding end bars, the cross-bar having a depressed portion and end projections forming the pivotal axes for the bars, the catches pivoted to the end bars and adapted to engage the depressed part of the bar . . . and the spring-suspensions" (lines 12-18).
Date: July 5, 1892
Creator: Meek, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eisenhower State Park:Trails Map

This is a topographical trails map of the Eisenhower State Park near the town of Denison in Grayson County, Texas. The map features the trails in a color coded scheme and features a legend showing the locations of the parks amenities. In the lower left hand corner there is a "Points of Interest" section that includes information and GPS coordinates. The reverse side of the map has information on safety, trail etiquette, and a detailed description of the parks trails.
Date: July 2013
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension for Bedsteads (open access)

Extension for Bedsteads

Patent for "an adjustable, folding, and removable attachment that can be adjusted to various heights, one that can be easily attached to and detached from the bedstead, and one that when so detached can be neatly folded into a compact mass,which will occupy very little space" with an adjustable guard (lines 11-19).
Date: July 22, 1890
Creator: Belsher, Julia A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for "a gate which can be built at a comparatively low price, which will be durable and practical, and which can be opened from either side with ease" (lines 13-17).
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Baker, Cicero McRee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hopper-Door. (open access)

Hopper-Door.

Patent for a hopper door especially designed to be used "with a vertically movable weighing hopper adapted to receive and weigh cotton seed" (lines 10-12). The specifics of how the door is hinged and operates is especially important to the design.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Peck, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides (open access)

Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides

Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
Date: July 20, 1869
Creator: Bean, W. O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in cane-strippers. (open access)

Improvement in cane-strippers.

Patent for an improvement in sugar-cane stripping machines, using an arrangement of rollers and a movable spring blade. Includes illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1879
Creator: James, Robert C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles.

Patent relating to "that class of shingle-machines which form the shingles by means of a knife working sidewise with the grain" (lines 10-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 8, 1879
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Masks for Horses and Cattle. (open access)

Improvement in Masks for Horses and Cattle.

Patent for a slitted leather mask for animals to be used for horses, cattle, etc. to deter the jumping of fences. Patent for "mask, covering the eyes of the animal, leaves him with a sufficiently free vision, and being thoroughly ventilated, will not injure his eyes".
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Trueblood, Albert H
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps. (open access)

Improvement in Pumps.

Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames. (open access)

Improvement in Quilting-Frames.

Patent relating to improvement "of quilting-frames made with folding ends and adjustable in width" (lines 10-12). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 8, 1879
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Tracks. (open access)

Improvement in Railway-Tracks.

Patent for improvements in the adjoining of railway tracks.
Date: July 23, 1878
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Steam-Engines.

Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp. (open access)

Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved oil lamp. This design "relates to improvements in lamps in which the reservoir is beveled, adapting it for use in conjunction with a conical corrugated reflector; and the object of [the] improvement is to produce a lamp that will afford more and better light with a given amount of oil" (lines 7-13).
Date: July 24, 1883
Creator: Newman, William
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
Plant-Protector. (open access)

Plant-Protector.

Patent for a plant protector, which forms a canopy over young plants to protect them from the weather.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Caruthers, Martha J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History