Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for chilling and whitening lard compounds that produces stiffer lard.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-128 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-128

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity of contract between Air National Guard and City of Grand Prairie.
Date: August 27, 1963
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-403 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-403

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legal authority for appointment of Purchasing Agent of Dallas County, Texas.
Date: March 27, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Enteric Lavage. (open access)

Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.

Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.
Date: June 27, 1916
Creator: Pair, Laura Costello
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leaf or Insert for Books (open access)

Leaf or Insert for Books

Patent for leaves and inserts in books and other paper documents. It is meant to "provide a printed sheet embodying certain novel features arranged so that it may be found in a book or catalogue as a leaf or page thereof or placed therein as an insert." (Lines 12-16)
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Seligson, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Lifter (open access)

Valve Lifter

Patent for an appliance which is for jacking up the valve spring of an internal combustion engine when it is needed to remove the valve for any purpose.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Glasscock, Oscar T. & Phillips, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machinery. (open access)

Well-Drilling Machinery.

Patent for a mechanism that drills and bores; it attaches to a vehicle so the engine can be used to power the mechanism.
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Lee, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Cable-Pump (open access)

Well Cable-Pump

Patent for an improved pump that can be used in connection with deep wells and provides improved construction that alleviates the necessity of having a long line of extra pipe and the troubling pump rod.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Fender, Joe N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Lard Substitute (open access)

Process of Making Lard Substitute

Patent for process of making lard substitute. "This invention relates to processes of producing culinary fats and has particular reference to a new and useful process of producing a lard substitute from cotton seed oil." (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Chisholm, Jesse C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp. (open access)

Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved lantern. This design "has relation to that class of lamp in which the reflector is secured to the lamp, having an aperture in its upper portion for the passage of the chimney of the lamp, and in which the reflector may be adjusted to throw the light from the lamp in different directions without moving the lamp; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same" (lines 23-31).
Date: April 27, 1886
Creator: Williams, Robert E. & Trammell, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine (open access)

Steam Engine

Patent for an improved steam engine design.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Edwards, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a washing machine, where water comes out of the top of a funnel onto the clothes, and the clothes are rotated and agitated around the funnel.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar. (open access)

Horse-Collar.

Patent for a horse collar that maximizes strength and minimizes material by addition of a joint.
Date: June 27, 1914
Creator: Schoellkopf, Jacob F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape. (open access)

Fire-Escape.

Patent for a fire escape, which makes improvements to cable-based building fire escapes to allow braking of the cable to permit detachment of each person before the full descent of the next person above.
Date: March 27, 1906
Creator: Moore, Sargant Z.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Igniting Device. (open access)

Igniting Device.

Patent for improvements in electrical ignitors that can be put over a gas burner and operated by the pressure of the gas flowing from the burner, which can ignite the gas.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: Shuford, Carl H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for "an improvement in furnaces, and more particularly to such as are employed for burning offal, refuse from slaughtering-houses" in which the furnace is surrounded by water, and any liquid inside the furnace can be expelled in the form of vapor (lines11-14).
Date: January 27, 1891
Creator: Hatcher, William Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureting System for Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Carbureting System for Internal Combustion Engines

Patent for improved carbureting system for combustion engines.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Hooser, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Straight-Edge (open access)

Straight-Edge

Patent for straight edge especially adapted for paper hangers' use, including illustrations.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Penn, George William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump or Motor. (open access)

Pump or Motor.

Patent for pump which converts to motor. Pump, compressor doubles as a motor when rotation operation is reversed.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Reaugh, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Materials (open access)

Process and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Materials

Patent for sizing or classifying comminuted material, and to provide a new means for vibrating the endless belt or deck in order to impart the particles by gravity.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game. (open access)

Game.

Patent for a four-player checker game and a hinged gameboard to play it on which provides storage for the checkers when folded.
Date: March 27, 1917
Creator: Mason, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer. (open access)

Draft-Equalizer.

Patent for a "draft even or equalizer...for various cultivators, and particularly for disk plows" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Dysart, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator And Gin-Feeder. (open access)

Cotton-Elevator And Gin-Feeder.

Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton elevators and gin feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a power baling press.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Diserens, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History