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Corn-Shuck Chopper.

Description: Patent for "an implement for cutting and removing the corn shuck or husk from the ear of corn more rapidly than any machine in the market. The invention consists of a table having in the middle of the top a longitudinal recess wit grooves on its sides, in which by means of pressing down a treadle a horizontal knife-blade slides to and fro. This knife-blade carries on its upper side a pair of movable clamps for holding an ear of corn in its place against an upright standard which is fastened on … more
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Pluck, James
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Poison-Distributer for Plants

Description: Patent for a mobile, horse-drawn poison-distributer for application of a dust or spray "to destroy insects and vermin" (line 11) on "as many as five rows of plants at a time" (lines 38-39).
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Ward, Noble Wesley; Ward, Pleasant Simeon & Ward, Lee
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Lock.

Description: Patent for a lock that was invented for house doors, outside doors, inner safe doors, and other similar doors. The lock is simple in construction and easily operatable for the user's efficiency.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Bell, William E. & Brown, Francis W.
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Rope-Clamp

Description: Patent for a rope clamp for plungers used in cotton presses. Illustrations included.
Date: August 14, 1911
Creator: Cameron, George W.
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Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.

Description: Patent for improvements in “gas-machines in which the gas is generated from calcium carbid; in which the gas will be thoroughly washed before passing to the distributing-pipe, thus affording a pure white light, and further to provide a means for running off coal-tar that may gather on the top of the water in the machine.” (Lines 9-18) Illustration is included.
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Metzger, Frederick
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Lint Packing Appratus

Description: Patent for a lint packing apparatus for collecting packing lint from a gin saw. Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Cameron, George W.; Muennink, George & Muennink, John
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Punch.

Description: Patent for a metal punch for use on cold metal. It is designed to sit atop a blacksmith's anvil.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Tevebaugh, Henry C.
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Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for "a truck having operating mechanism changeable to either cotton or corn seeders and in combination therewith a hopper formed in sections, one of which is removable" (lines 14-17).
Date: May 28, 1901
Creator: Droitcourt, Adam
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Windmill-Regulator

Description: Patent for a windmill regulator, specifically windmill breaks "to be used in connection with a windmill placed upon a tower in the usual manner and having the controlling-wire depending therefrom to be drawn upon for stopping the pumping mechanism and to be released for allowing it to resume its operation" (lines 22-28), including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1900
Creator: Rohlf, Claus H.
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Sash Fastener

Description: Patent for a new and useful Sash holder and lock to "provide a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may be applied to either the upper or lower sashes of windows in general use at the present time without materially injuring them and without requiring the aid of a skilled mechanic" (line 10 - 15).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Tuitte, Frank
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Mowing Machine

Description: Patent for a mowing machine. This invention is designed to attach to mowers of various sizes in order to divide material along a proper line of swath and guide it over the cutting-bar.
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: Weynand, Peter
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Plunger for Baling Presses

Description: Patent for a plunger for baling presses. This baling press is used for the baling of cotton, hay, and similar products through the "means for mounting and actuating the ram or plunger which reciprocates in the baling chamber" (14-16) Illustration included.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Cameron, George W.
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Karte des Staates Texas aufgenommen in die Union 1846 : nach der neuesten Eintheilung

Description: This map shows the state of Texas and surrounding areas. Some counties are outlined in red and there are areas shaded in color. Major cities, roads, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). The names and locations of some Native American Indian tribes are also marked in western and northern portions of the state. There are two insets: "Plan von Neu-Brunfels und Comalstadt" (lower left corner) and "Plan von Castroville" (lower right corner).
Date: 1849
Creator: Koenen, Fr.
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Texas: Sabinal Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Sabinal, Texas, showing towns, roads, borders between counties, water bodies, ranches and farms, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 25 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Brown, Earl L.; Nicholas, R. U.; Drouet, A. & Zensius, W. R.
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Texas: Tarpley Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Tarpley, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, ranches and farms, water bodies, mountains, borders between counties, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Pope, F. A.; Anderson, Clay; Drouet, Adolph & Barr, J. L.
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Texas: Natalia Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Natalia, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, rivers, creeks, boundaries, gas pipelines, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
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Texas (Medina County): New Fountain Quadrangle Grid Zone "D"

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of New Foundation, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing roads and highways, towns, pipelines, water bodies, ranches and farms, wells, and landmarks. Relief is shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Handwritten notes have been made at the top of the published map in pencil. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Loving, J. J.; Rehberg, A., Jr. & Jones, T. M.
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Texas Frio Town Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Frio Town, Texas and the surrounding area, showing towns, ranches, roads, rivers, creeks, boundaries, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 25 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Brown, Earl L.; Nicholas, R. U.; Drouet, A. & Zensius, W. R.
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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