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Cotton-Baling Machine.

Description: Patent for a cotton-baling machine that compresses cotton between two pressure-rolls and rolls it around a core. This invention improves "the mode of applying pressure to the pressure rolls, and [improves] the manner of mounting the core-roll in position within the compress, and for facilitating the removal of said core-roll; and the elevation therefrom of the compress-roll" (lines 15-21).
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, Charles Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Compress.

Description: Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L. & Bessonette, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Family in Front of Vickrey House]

Description: Photograph of a group of eight people standing in front of a one-story house with dark wood siding and a partially covered front porch in the corner of the house. Three of the people are children, two of which are sitting on tricycles, and the other is held by one of three men. The columns of the porch overhang are covered in ivy, obscuring the front of the house. The house is raised slightly, and has a short flight of steps leading up to the porch. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo in… more
Date: 1894~
Partner: Salado Public Library

[Wedding Invitation from Reddin Dillard Shofner]

Description: Wedding invitation from Reddin Dillard Shofner for the "marriage of his daughter Eugenia to Dr. J. E. Guthrie" at the Methodist Church in Salado, Texas. Their full names have been identified as James Edwin Guthrie MD and Eugenia Shofner.
Date: April 15, 1894
Creator: Shofner, Reddin Dillard
Partner: Salado Public Library

Gatesville Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1894
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 31.25 -97.75
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lock-Hinge.

Description: Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
Date: June 12, 1894
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hame-Hook.

Description: Patent for a simple and durable latch hame-hook that holds trace links in place. It is two plates, one of which is slotted to hold the tongue of the other plate.
Date: March 6, 1894
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Refrigerator.

Description: Patent for a refrigerator that cools dairy and other food products by evaporating water. The cooler is a chest with water in it and containers with absorbent material around the bottom of the containers that sits in the water. The outer chest is metal, and a container sits underneath to catch drips.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Greene, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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