San Antonio Monthly Reports: October 1991 [Part 1] (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: October 1991 [Part 1]

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: October 30, 1991
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing-Press Gripper. (open access)

Printing-Press Gripper.

Patent for a device to grip paper being carried between the type bed, rotary platen, and delivery belts of a printing press.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Sadovsky, Nathan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch-Locking Device. (open access)

Railway-Switch-Locking Device.

Patent for "a switch-locking device comprising a lock contained within the switch-lever of the switch-stand, by the use of which the switch may be more quickly and positively manipulated and finally locked in position" (lines 3-7).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Sulfer, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Lace Fastener. (open access)

Shoe-Lace Fastener.

Patent for a barbed metal clasp designed to hold a shoelace knot together.
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Kroeninger, Augusta E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "a car-coupler which will be automatic in its operation in coupling the cars as they come together on the track, and at the same time to provide a positive uncoupling device which may be operated on any part of any of the cars, as well as by an engineer, when it is desired to uncouple the cars or a car from the engine" (lines 14-21).
Date: October 30, 1888
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P. & Lee, Patrick H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History