Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Departmenthttps://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTGD/browse/?fq=untl_collection:TXPT&fq=untl_decade:1890-1899&fq=str_location_county:McLennan+County,+TX2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents DepartmentAutomatic Vehicle - Brake.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514107/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514107/"><img alt="Automatic Vehicle - Brake." title="Automatic Vehicle - Brake." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514107/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved automatic vehicle brake.</p>Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513963/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513963/"><img alt="Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine." title="Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513963/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).</p>Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513707/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513707/"><img alt="Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device." title="Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513707/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.</p>Baling-Press.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508544/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508544/"><img alt="Baling-Press." title="Baling-Press." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508544/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.</p>Design for a Saddle-Pad.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511308/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511308/"><img alt="Design for a Saddle-Pad." title="Design for a Saddle-Pad." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511308/small/"/></a></p><p>Design patent for a saddle-pad with longitudinal rows of scalloped ribs.</p>Car-Wheel.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510814/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510814/"><img alt="Car-Wheel." title="Car-Wheel." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510814/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Electric Time - Switch2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511901/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511901/"><img alt="Electric Time - Switch" title="Electric Time - Switch" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511901/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved electric time switch to "used on any kind of electric circuits" (line 13 - 14).</p>Marking Attachment.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511991/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511991/"><img alt="Marking Attachment." title="Marking Attachment." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511991/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in marking attachments, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Cushion-Tire Retainer for Vehicle-Wheels.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508989/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508989/"><img alt="Cushion-Tire Retainer for Vehicle-Wheels." title="Cushion-Tire Retainer for Vehicle-Wheels." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508989/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cushion tire retainers for vehicle wheels, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Biblical Game Apparatus2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509584/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509584/"><img alt="Biblical Game Apparatus" title="Biblical Game Apparatus" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509584/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).</p>Clothes Pounder2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508742/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508742/"><img alt="Clothes Pounder" title="Clothes Pounder" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508742/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Baling-Press.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514708/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514708/"><img alt="Baling-Press." title="Baling-Press." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514708/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton pressing and baling, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509579/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509579/"><img alt="Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws" title="Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509579/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).</p>Milk-Cooler.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511411/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511411/"><img alt="Milk-Cooler." title="Milk-Cooler." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511411/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Milk-Cooler.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508969/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508969/"><img alt="Milk-Cooler." title="Milk-Cooler." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508969/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Process of Baling Cotton.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509705/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509705/"><img alt="Process of Baling Cotton." title="Process of Baling Cotton." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509705/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in processes of baling cotton.</p>Pneumatic Propulsion Means.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510012/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510012/"><img alt="Pneumatic Propulsion Means." title="Pneumatic Propulsion Means." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510012/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved pneumatic propulsion means, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Pneumatic Propulsion Means.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511512/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511512/"><img alt="Pneumatic Propulsion Means." title="Pneumatic Propulsion Means." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511512/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved pneumatic propulsion means, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Stenographer's Note - Book2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514400/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514400/"><img alt="Stenographer's Note - Book" title="Stenographer's Note - Book" src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514400/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and useful Stenographer's Blank Book to "provide a connection for the covers whereby they may be automatically secured at the desired relative inclination without fastening the tape, cord, or ribbon forming the connection" (line 20 -24).</p>Hand-Planter.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511714/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511714/"><img alt="Hand-Planter." title="Hand-Planter." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511714/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and useful hand planter, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Rotary Engine.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511966/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511966/"><img alt="Rotary Engine." title="Rotary Engine." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511966/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Rotary Engine.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513146/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513146/"><img alt="Rotary Engine." title="Rotary Engine." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513146/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rotary engines, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Rotary Engine.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514077/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514077/"><img alt="Rotary Engine." title="Rotary Engine." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514077/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Roller Cotton-Press.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511324/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511324/"><img alt="Roller Cotton-Press." title="Roller Cotton-Press." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth511324/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in roller cotton compresses, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Washing-Machine.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513306/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513306/"><img alt="Washing-Machine." title="Washing-Machine." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513306/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for new and useful improvements in washing machines, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Railroad-Bicycle.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508126/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508126/"><img alt="Railroad-Bicycle." title="Railroad-Bicycle." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508126/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Rail Bond.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512123/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512123/"><img alt="Rail Bond." title="Rail Bond." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512123/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for improved track circuit rail joints designed to withstand heavy usage and convey electrical currents between rails, including illustrations.</p>Railroad-Gate.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513777/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513777/"><img alt="Railroad-Gate." title="Railroad-Gate." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513777/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad gates, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Portable Folding Mirror-Stand.2014-10-16T06:42:47-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514461/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514461/"><img alt="Portable Folding Mirror-Stand." title="Portable Folding Mirror-Stand." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514461/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for certain new and useful improvements portable folding mirror stands, including instructions and illustrations.</p>Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174147/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174147/"><img alt="Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder." title="Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174147/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).</p>Fire-Grate.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174163/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174163/"><img alt="Fire-Grate." title="Fire-Grate." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174163/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a simple and efficient fire-grate that is meant "to be set in a wall between two rooms and capable of being reversed to enable either room to be directly heated by a fire" (lines 11-13).</p>Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174177/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174177/"><img alt="Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales." title="Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174177/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.</p>Ice-Cream Freezer.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174194/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174194/"><img alt="Ice-Cream Freezer." title="Ice-Cream Freezer." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174194/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an ice-cream freezer which can also be used as a churn, with an improved drum that revolves and its lower half sitting in ice or hot or cold water. It has a central shaft and flat heads on the ends of the drum so it can rotate.</p>Dumping Wagon.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173169/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173169/"><img alt="Dumping Wagon." title="Dumping Wagon." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173169/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new and improved dumping wagon. This design is "to provide a double dump for carrying dirt, sand, gravel, and other loose material on ordinary road-wagons, together with mechanism for instantly unloading the same" (lines 8-12). To this end, it consists "of a frame, double dumping-boxes swinging upon axles, and a U-shaped dumping lever, said lever provided with points extending slightly beyond its axis" (lines 90-93).</p>Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174466/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174466/"><img alt="Cotton Chopper and Cultivator." title="Cotton Chopper and Cultivator." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174466/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an improved combined cotton chopper and cultivator.</p>Automatic Wagon-Brake.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174516/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174516/"><img alt="Automatic Wagon-Brake." title="Automatic Wagon-Brake." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174516/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.</p>Cotton-Press.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174558/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174558/"><img alt="Cotton-Press." title="Cotton-Press." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174558/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.</p>Coat-Adjuster.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174609/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174609/"><img alt="Coat-Adjuster." title="Coat-Adjuster." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174609/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a machine that holds a coat for a person and puts it on that person, thus avoiding the need to personally put on a coat. Pivoted arms hold on to the coat and clamps are connected to the arms which hold on to the coat.</p>Display-Rack.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174658/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174658/"><img alt="Display-Rack." title="Display-Rack." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174658/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for..." a rack for displaying cakes, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, and like commodities in whole or half boxes, so as to admit of access being readily had to the contents of the boxes or the boxes being quickly removed and replaced for any pur pose, and to devise a rack for the purposes aforesaid which will be compact and occupy a minimum amount of room compared with the display-surface and which provides for the adjustment of the brackets or supports so as to receive boxes of different size and make" (lines 8-20) with descriptions and illustrations.</p>Cutting Attachment For Plows.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174667/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174667/"><img alt="Cutting Attachment For Plows." title="Cutting Attachment For Plows." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174667/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for cutting attachment for a plow, including illustrations.</p>Baling-Press.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174668/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174668/"><img alt="Baling-Press." title="Baling-Press." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174668/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an operating mechanism relating to baling-presses, with illustrations.</p>Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173504/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173504/"><img alt="Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner." title="Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173504/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an improved mop and rubber holder meant to clean windows, walls, and similar surfaces. It is adjustable, and the operator can put the mop or the rubber on the end of the handle.</p>Automatic Railway-Gate.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173786/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173786/"><img alt="Automatic Railway-Gate." title="Automatic Railway-Gate." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173786/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.</p>Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173791/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173791/"><img alt="Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer." title="Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173791/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a simple and efficient cotton separator and distributor that elevates and moves cotton from a wagon into a gin. It has supply and suction pipes, an air-tight cotton distributing box with an opening on one side and a gravity drop door on the other, a mechanism that moves the box in and out of the line of suction of the pipes, and a group of circular distributing boxes that rotate between the pipes.</p>Atomizer.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173813/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173813/"><img alt="Atomizer." title="Atomizer." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173813/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an atomizer meant to distribute liquids, powders, and vapors. Its parts can be easily changed so it can be used in different situations, for cleaning, and to make its use more efficient.</p>Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173532/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173532/"><img alt="Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles." title="Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173532/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a spring that supports the lever.</p>Cotton-Press.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173564/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173564/"><img alt="Cotton-Press." title="Cotton-Press." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173564/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).</p>Feed-Regulator for Cotton-Gins.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173570/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173570/"><img alt="Feed-Regulator for Cotton-Gins." title="Feed-Regulator for Cotton-Gins." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173570/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a simple feed-regulator attachment for cotton gins with circular saws separating the cotton from the seeds. It regulates the rate that cotton is fed into the roll box and automatically stops and starts depending on the size of the roll.</p>Combined Desk and Copy-Holder.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173598/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173598/"><img alt="Combined Desk and Copy-Holder." title="Combined Desk and Copy-Holder." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173598/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a desk with an attached paper-holder that allows for easier transcription.</p>Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet.2011-08-04T17:55:08-05:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173599/<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173599/"><img alt="Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet." title="Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet." src="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173599/small/"/></a></p><p>Patent for a combined copy-holder and tablet meant for record keeping. The invention's purposes are to "produce a convenient device designed to be employed ether upon the lap of the operator or upon a counter or other convenient support, and to maintain in position for writing a web of paper, thus requiring no holding of the same by the operator; to provide means for conveniently paying out said web of paper as the same is used or consumed; to provide for conveniently tearing the paper from the web into lengths convenient to the operator; to provide for a simple retention and support in a removable manner of the roll upon which the web is mounted; and finally for a support of the device in an inclined position convenient for transcribing notes therefrom" (lines 13-28).</p>