Churning Machine. (open access)

Churning Machine.

Patent for a churning machine that includes illustration and description of machine parts.
Date: July 2, 1901
Creator: McDaniel, Bill Homer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for new improvements in cotton choppers which allows them to be durable and strong, yet flexible with adjustable parts to accommodate soil and growth conditions including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Gerding, Fred F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Resources of Limestone County, Texas (open access)

Ground-Water Resources of Limestone County, Texas

Report on the ground-water resources of Limestone County, Texas published by the Texas Water Development Board. Includes information on the climate and topography of the area, geology as relating to groundwater, groundwater hydrology, quality of groundwater, availability of groundwater, and scientific tables and figures.
Date: July 1987
Creator: Rettman, P. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Head Protector. (open access)

Head Protector.

Patent for a new and improved head protector. This design utilizes a wire "skeleton mask" and corresponding cap that holds the former in place. These are "designed to be covered with netting and to be worn as a protection against mosquitoes and other poisonous insects, and which is also applicable to bee-keepers' use, thrashers, gunners, railroad brakemen, &c." (lines 14-19).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Turner, Robert W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device. (open access)

Hitching Device.

Patent for "a hitching device which can be applied to a strap between its ends and which is freely adjustable back and forth upon the strap without wearing or injuring the strap in any manner and to form a hitching device which consists of two entirely separate and distinct pieces, thus doing away with all joints, pivots, or other connections, and the necessity for forming holes or perforations of any kind in the strap." (Lines 22-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 6, 1897
Creator: King, Sandy & Myers, Marshall
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Identification of Potential Brackish Groundwater Production Areas - Nacatoch Aquifer (open access)

Identification of Potential Brackish Groundwater Production Areas - Nacatoch Aquifer

Provides data on the placement and studies pertaining to aquifers and groundwater production
Date: July 2017
Creator: Laughlin, Kristie
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Axles. (open access)

Improvement in Carriage-Axles.

Patent for an easily replaceable and self-lubricating carriage axle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1870
Creator: Hall, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaners. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaners.

Patent for improvement in cotton-gin-saw cleaners used in cotton ginning processes, including illustration.
Date: July 22, 1879
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Collecting Insects From Plants (open access)

Machine For Collecting Insects From Plants

Patent for a machine that collects insects from plants. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Bolen, Walter M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow (open access)

Sulky-Plow

Patent for a new and useful improvement in Sulky-Plows. The invention utilizes "a novel construction-levers, and arrangement of hangers, braces, and levers, whereby provision is made for the attachment of plow-beams of different sizes, and for adjusting the parts" (lines 7-11)
Date: July 20, 1880
Creator: Powell, Louis W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History