Bagging Strecher. (open access)

Bagging Strecher.

Patent for a bagging stretcher that provides a device to be "associated with the baling press for drawing taut the bagging which is used to cover a bale".
Date: July 7, 1914
Creator: Davis, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Fire Screen and Fender. (open access)

Combined Fire Screen and Fender.

Patent for a combined fire screen and fender. This design "works in the mantle-piece by means of weights, and is secured in position by by means of a spring-latch that catches in notches in the jamb. This screen thus arranged can be made to answer for three purposes: By letting it down nearly to the hearth it acts as a blower; by letting it entirely down accidents from fire are prevented, and when let down in the summer time it makes a handsome summer screen" (lines 21-30).
Date: July 19, 1881
Creator: Matthews, James Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Thinning Machine (open access)

Cotton-Thinning Machine

Patent for a cotton thinning machine. Illustrations included.
Date: July 12, 1912
Creator: Brawner, William Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leveling Instrument (open access)

Leveling Instrument

Patent for leveling instrument. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Akins, Henry King
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Scoggin, James Lee & Dean, John Rowe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Brace for Railway Tracks. (open access)

Rail Brace for Railway Tracks.

Patent for rail brace for railway tracks. The brace "acts as a chair for the rail preventing sagging ; as a brace for the base of the rail, and also bracing the head, and prevents both rails from spreading though not in any way secured to the tie" (lines 100-105).
Date: July 8, 1913
Creator: Barfield, Alfred M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Appliance. (open access)

Railway Appliance.

Patent for a railway appliance designed to prevent cars from leaving the track, as well as apply brakes to train to quickly decelerate or stop.
Date: July 21, 1903
Creator: Sweat, Omega
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Setting Trap. (open access)

Self-Setting Trap.

Patent for a useful self-setting trap, meaning the captured animal will set the trap for another animal. In this self-setting trap the bait is held against molestation, and which may be employed to successively catch and confine all animals that may pass therein.” (Lines 14-17) Illustration is included.
Date: July 7, 1891
Creator: Dowell, Lawson Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tag-Fastener (open access)

Tag-Fastener

Patent for "improvements in tag-fasteners...which can be applied to [a] package with great rapidity and which will not easily become detached" (lines 6-19) including illustrations.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Walshe, Denny Edmund
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Upper East 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
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for a fabric engaging element under the top of the washing machine.
Date: July 1, 1913
Creator: Kincaid, Willis Menefee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History