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Boll Weevil Exterminator

Description: Patent for a boll weevil exterminator. This invention is designed to remove boll weevils from cotton plants and crushing them between rollers. Illustration included.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Meeks, William & Brown, Daniel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Packing-Case.

Description: Patent for new and improved shipping case to store and transport oysters so that they may be surrounded by ice in travel and not be subjected to a great amount of pressure or damaged during transit.
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Clement, Thomas Houlten, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Decros Point Quandrangle: Texas

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including Matagorda Bay, Intracoastal Waterway, Matagorda Peninsula, Decros Point, Matagorda Club Airport, Matagorda Club, and the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown by contours and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1957
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Port O'Connor Quadrangle: Texas

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1954
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Long Island Quadrangle: Texas--Calhoun Co.

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, mud flats, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including Intracoastal Waterway, Shoalwater Bay, Long Island, Steamboat Pass, Steamboat Island, Espiritu Santo Bay, Josephine Reef, Vanderveer Island, South Pass, South Pass Island, First Chain of Islands, South Pass Lake, Contee Lake, Rahal Bayou, Pringle Lake, Long Lake, Pats Bay, Power Lake, Matagorda Island Bombing and Gunnery Range, Matagorda Island, and the Gulf of Mexico. … more
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Panther Point Quadrangle: Texas--Calhoun Co.

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including San Antonio Bay, Panther Reef, Cedar Point, Cedar Lake, Twin Lakes, Panther Point, Panther Point Lake, Swan Lake, Cottonwood Bayou, Matagorda Island Bombing and Gunnery Range, Matagorda Island, and the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown by contours and spot heights and includes key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Pass Cavallo SW Quadrangle: Texas--Calhoun Co.

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including Grass Island, Espiritu Santo Bay, Mule Slough, Farwell Island, Big Pocket, Lighthouse Cove, Fish Pond, Vanderveer Island, Pringle Lake, Matagorda Island, Matagorda Island Bombing and Gunnery Range, Matagorda Island Air Force Base, U.S. Coast Guard Station, Pass Cavallo, and the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown by contours and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and q… more
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Calhoun Co.

Description: Cadastral map of Calhoun County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, creeks, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date: November 1919
Creator: Giles, J. Bascom & Wicker, G. T.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Gate.

Description: Patent for a gate that is "a structure hanging and sliding by means of rollers on an inclined cross-bar, and so connected by ropes and pulleys to stationary posts that a person approaching it on horseback or in a vehicle may easily open the gate (without dismounting) by pulling the rope, and on releasing the rope the gate will close automatically" (lines 12-19); illustration is included.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Smith, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Description: Patent for a new piano forte design which "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and combination of the key-lever and its fulcrum and rest, a receiving-lever, a transmitting-eccentric, a secondary hammer, a principal hammer and its rest, and a damper-action and its connections, whereby greater simplicity and efficiency are obtained" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1879
Creator: Roedern, George O. V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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