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Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators. (open access)

Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators.

Patent for “ore-conveying surface for electrical separators, and particularly to a structure adapted for use with static electricity.” (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals Hearing: March 25, 1998 (open access)

Transcript of Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals Hearing: March 25, 1998

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals held March 25, 1998 in Dallas, Texas. This hearing includes testimony from judges and an attorney of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on the possible restructuring of the Fifth Circuit.
Date: March 25, 1998
Creator: United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-653 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-653

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: Whether the National Fashions Association, in supplying models to salesmen, in connection with its operation of the Merchandise Mart in Dallas, Texas, would be required to obtain an employment agency license under Article 5221a-6, Vernon's Civil Statutes, the Texas Private Employment Agency Law.
Date: June 25, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-507 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-507

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Highway Commission may temporarily close a portion of the Interstate 35E frontage road in Dallas for the purpose of allowing an intercity "grand prix" race.
Date: June 25, 1986
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1077 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1077

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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Payment by Dallas County of bond premiums for reserve deputy sheriffs and reserve deputy constables.
Date: October 25, 1977
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2012 (open access)

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2012

Proposed budget for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, for fiscal year 2012.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2012 (open access)

University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2012

Proposed budget for University of Texas at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, during fiscal year 2012.
Date: August 25, 2011
Creator: University of Texas at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truss. (open access)

Truss.

Patent for a new and improved truss. This design consists in "the body-band consisting of a front piece adapted to fit around the abdomen, and a wire attached to each end of said front piece, shaped to conform to the body and spread apart to receive and rest upon the hip-bone, and straps secured to the opposite ends of said wires for fastening the band in place" (lines 43-50).
Date: October 25, 1887
Creator: Davis, Andrew P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel. (open access)

Wind-Wheel.

Patent for "connecting the wheel shaft with the driving shaft and [...] the provision of a wind wheel having wind collecting faces or pockets extending in vertical planes surrounding a vertical driving shaft as an axis" (lines 25-38), including illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1916
Creator: Iley, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater (open access)

Water-Heater

Water-heaters that can be more manufactured for a lower cost while heating water more quickly and work as a room heater for the bathroom.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Summerfield, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.

Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “taking seed-cotton from wagons or storehouses through pneumatic tubes and delivering it freed from dust and other extraneous matter to any number of gins. It includes devices for imparting flexibility to the feed-section of the tube for distributing the cotton and for disposing of the surplus when the cotton is supplied faster than it can be ginned.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date: August 25, 1891
Creator: Thomas, Robert Smith; Hardwick, Sauny Warren & Elam, William Erwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer (open access)

Vaporizer

Patent for a vaporizer. Illustration included.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Beaumont, Godfrey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Lock (open access)

Transmission-Lock

Patent for a mechanism to be added onto a motor vehicle transmission to prevent unwarranted action on the transmission.
Date: January 25, 1916
Creator: McDonald, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents. (open access)

Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1877
Creator: Park, Hardy B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Driving Corrugated Fasteners. (open access)

Tool For Driving Corrugated Fasteners.

Patent for a tool with "a magazine adapted to feed corrugated fasteners to a driving plunge" (lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Thompson, Carl S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp and Reflector for Same. (open access)

Lamp and Reflector for Same.

Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
Date: April 25, 1882
Creator: Cotton, Patrick H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projectile. (open access)

Projectile.

Patent for improvements in projectiles for use in smooth-bore guns of any caliber, the same being so grooved or rifled as to insure rapid rotation and great accuracy and range in flight. (Lines 8-11.) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Croom, Alvis F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fan (open access)

Improvement in Automatic Fan

Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
Date: April 25, 1876
Creator: Gollner, Ervin G. & Fretz, Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Battery. (open access)

Primary Battery.

Patent for a simplified primary battery "whereby the parts thereof may be readily removed and replaced without special tools by unprofessional persons, while at the same time providing a construction of primary battery involving new and useful connections for the positive and negative elements thereof." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing Appliance (open access)

Printing Appliance

Patent for a printing appliance meant to the improve the functionality of a printer.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Johnson, S. T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Riding-Horse. (open access)

Mechanical Riding-Horse.

Patent for mechanical riding horse that is designed for children to use. It's purpose is a toy that can be ridden and travelled on as a tricycle.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: Finley, David Guy
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Railway Conduit. (open access)

Electric-Railway Conduit.

Patent for an electric railway conduit that is more efficient and durable. It has "guides for the traveling switch, one of said guides being a continuous one and the other a sectional one, one being insulated from the conduit and the other guide-strip (lines 16-20). The traveling switch moves in the conduit and on the sides of the guides. Only one section of the conduit is live at once, the one that a car is passing over.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Hull, William Sharkey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Escapement for Watches (open access)

Escapement for Watches

Patent for escapement for watches that allows connecting pieces to adjust more easily, this includes fixed jewels, palettes, levers, etc.
Date: July 25, 1916
Creator: De Long, Charles E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Emergency-Tire. (open access)

Emergency-Tire.

Patent for a spare automobile tire with improvements to the design which allow it be easily applied on the road in case of emergency.
Date: December 25, 1917
Creator: Poe, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History