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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car coupler, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1899
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Exhibitor and Phonographic Annunciator
Patent for an advertising exhibitor and phonographic annunciator that shows changing advertisements and has a recording reading them out.
Date:
July 25, 1911
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus.
Patent for a machine for use in making cotton batting which takes the cotton in by an air current and then distributes it evenly throughout the mold for the batting. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Sack
Patent for a sack for cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1911
Creator:
Kendall, Ernest L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the crossed levers, the bail extending over the same, the spring secured to and extending between said levers, and the latches carried by said levers" (lines 3-6).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Bonner, Whitmill J.
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
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
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Northwest Texas Region
Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Northwest Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date:
July 2002
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design "has for its object to provide a novel, simple, economical, and efficient implement or tool for tightening wire fences by forming twists or loops in the fence-strands to take up the slack, and to provide a novel implement of this type wherein a rod or bar can be conveniently applied to increase the leverage in turning the implement to form the twists or loops" (lines 8-16).
Date:
July 15, 1890
Creator:
Bellah, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
July 12, 1904
Creator:
Cooper, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening and Gumming Saws.
Patent for a machine that sharpens and gums saws for cotton-gins. It does so quickly and does not fatigue the operator. It automatically feeds "the saws so as to bring the teeth successively into position to be operated upon, and which will cut the teeth uniformly, thereby preserving the circular outline of the saws and preserving the teeth of a uniform length and appearance" (lines 15-20).
Date:
July 14, 1896
Creator:
Hulme, William A. & Hulme, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design "consists of two cuneiform sleeves mounted loosely and eccentrically on two upright shafts inclined toward each other and provided with spiraled grooves, into which pins in the sleeves pass, these sleeves being provided at the bottom with plates engaging with each other, so that both sleeves will move simultaneously, the reins being grasped between these sleeves" (lines 10-18).
Date:
July 25, 1882
Creator:
Hyde, Leslie Russell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shaft stirrups for vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1899
Creator:
Carter, Jesse M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History