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BRICK-KILN.
Patent for brick-kilns to "provide means for burning bricks in a much shorter time and more effectively than is possible with usual constructions, and, further, to protect the kiln-walls against the injurious effects of heat" (lines 9-13).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improved, strong, durable, and simple churn that produces butter quickly and with much use of power. It has a slide rest with a rotary driving spindle on one end and guide pulleys on the other end, a slide-block that slides on the end of the slide rest, a turn-peg with a ratchet-head on the slide-block, a pawl, and a chord that attaches all these parts.
Date:
October 23, 1894
Creator:
Roark, Calvin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultural Resources Baseline Studies: Lake Columbia Water Supply Project, Cherokee and Smith Counties, Texas
Report issued by Horizon Environmental Services, Inc. to provide a report on the discharge of dredged and fill materials from the Angelina and Neches River Authority associated with the construction of Lake Columbia reservoir in Cherokee and Smith counties, Texas.
Date:
October 2015
Creator:
Owens, Jeffrey D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Seed-Planters
Patent for an improved seed planter that can be attached to a plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Rogers, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper.
Patent for an improvement in cultivators and choppers which will allow for the adjustment by height and width.
Date:
October 7, 1876
Creator:
Killough, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "an improved plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use as a subsoil-plow, as a turning-plow, as a scraper and cultivator, and as a scraper, cultivator, and hiller, and which shall be simple in construction and effective in operation in either capacity." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Newton, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Holder.
Patent for an improved music-holder. The music-holder is comprised of a base adapted to be secured to a music rest with a standard pivoted on the base. The standard is fixed with a spring-pressed shaft in order to press the book to the music stand.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
French, Clarence E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Valve.
Patent for an improved safety valve for boilers that consists of a valve chamber with a socket at its bottom, a valve seat with a steam outlet, a valve in the socket, a steam inlet tube that passes through and below the valve, a piston mounted in a guide chamber, a spring that holds the piston, a guide chamber with a valve seat, and a steam cylinder.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Cameron, Charles Hoyle
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Tightener
Patent for a bale-band tightener, illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
Splettstosser, Fritz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History