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Shelby County, Texas

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Shelby County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and roads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in red ink to emphasize certain points on the map. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1899
Creator: Appell, P. F.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Scraper for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for certain new and useful improvements in scrapers for "cultivators-shovels, plows, and like tilling implements" (line 12-13).
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: Butler, Albert C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Knife and Scale.

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined knife and scale. This design "has relation to a combined knife and scale, and is particularly adapted for the use of butchers" (line 12 - 14).
Date: February 1, 1898
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bolt Lock for Railways

Description: Patent for a new and useful improvements in bolt locks for railways. This invention is to "provide a simple, durable, and effective device of this class" (line 13-14).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shelby County Texas.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1897
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Saw-Swaging Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved saw-swaging machine that is used as "an anvil-die and an independent roller-die" (lines 17-18). "The saw may be swaged from the front of the tooth without scalloping or concaving the tooth and at the same time avoiding friction thereon" (lines 21-24).
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Shepley, Benjamin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Felly for Wheels.

Description: Patent for a felly for wheels designed to be used for a heavy wagon or cultivators. It consists of malleable iron with the inside edge being smaller than the outside, an indentation in the center going around the outside surface, and conical spoke sockets.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Mosely, Jeremiah Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Egg-Crate.

Description: Patent for an egg-crate that has "hinged sections, the middle section being composed of a solid block with cavities top and bottom corresponding with cavities formed in the lower and the top surface respectively of the upper and the lower portions which fit on opposite sides of the middle solid portion, the said three portions or sections being hinged together and provided with a suitable fastening" (lines 16-25).
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: West, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gun-Magazine.

Description: Patent for an improved gun magazine that consists of a glass lining with openings on its sides.
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Whitten, Burrel Franklin & Porcher, Joseph Ford
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements in reversible plows: "The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of reversible plows and enable them to be adjusted to any desired depth" (lines 9-12).
Date: August 18, 1891
Creator: McKay, Robert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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