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Clock Attachment. (open access)

Clock Attachment.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto. (open access)

Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto.

Patent for new and useful improvements in composition railroad ties and means for securing rails thereto, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie (open access)

Bale Tie

Patent for "a new and useful bale tie" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: May 14, 1900
Creator: Walker, Millard Fillmore
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling. (open access)

Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.

Patent for "coupling devices for connecting the air-brake hose of railway-cars" (lines 9-10) automatically, including illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Simecek, Vaclav
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Cementing Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: April 11, 1905
Creator: Kruse, William & Vanderwerth, Theodor M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for "a simple, light, and durable press, which may be conveniently manipulated in either a vertical or horizontal position and readily transported in a field from stack to stack of hay. . .wherein the hay may be expeditiously and effectively baled by two persons" (lines 9-16).
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: Freytag, Anton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a "press as simple in construction and operation as possible, of sufficient power to do the work effectively, and arranged to be readily moved from place to place at pleasure" (lines 12-16).
Date: February 19, 1889
Creator: Hillman, William & Ripple, Joseph F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "of the base-plate, the casing made in two trough-shaped sections . . . one of which is hinged to the base-plate the bifurcated uprights, the operating-levers on each side hinged to the uprights, the compressing-beam extending across the baling-chamber and through the uprights, and connections between the compressing-beam and the levers" (lines 92-100).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Hillman, William & Ripple, Joseph F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Motor. (open access)

Air Motor.

Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
Date: July 21, 1885
Creator: Koniakowsky, Alois M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter. (open access)

Corn-Planter.

Patent for improvement of corn-planters, with illustrations. The purpose of this corn-planters patent was to improve existing corn-planters through, "peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (lines 9-12).
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Koepke, William. Wm. Koepke.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a four-sided baling box/chamber with supporting-upright doors arranged at the top, at the front and one of the sides of the box. These doors can be hinged at diagonally-opposite corners of the box; locking-bolts are pivoted at the free end of the each door, the top door with locking-bar sliding through apertures in the uprights and the lever for operating the top door. Illustration is included.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Klockmann, Henry G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements to a machine that compresses bolts of cloth or waste into compact bales for shipment.
Date: March 18, 1884
Creator: Reagan, Edgar U. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Press. (open access)

Cotton-Baling Press.

Patent for "an improved construction of hydraulic baling-presses, whereby it is designed to provide simple and more durable and reliable presses of this kind than any now in use" (lines 8-12).
Date: July 29, 1884
Creator: Baumgarten, Christian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Apparatus. (open access)

Cotton-Baling Apparatus.

Patent for the "improvements in cotton-baling apparatus or compresses of that type in which the cotton is received directly from the gin or gins" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Melcher, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 93 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 93

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating Schulenburg the Official Home of the Painted Churches of Texas.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Report: 2011 (open access)

Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Report: 2011

Annual report for the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) describing developments and updates on organizational programs.
Date: 2011~
Creator: Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-78 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-78

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether “working interests” owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority in oil and gas wells in Fayette County are subject to ad valorem taxation (RQ-2163)
Date: January 28, 1992
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6859 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6859

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May a Commissioner of Fayette County lease a truck from a private individual for county use and pay to said owner the difference between the earnings of the truck and the cost of repairs, labor and gasoline, while paying the amount of said bills to other individuals?
Date: 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6234 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6234

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Salary of the County Auditor of Fayette County.
Date: 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6238 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6238

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the given facts, if Fayette County legally authorized to pay the claim of the Warden of the Texas Prison System?
Date: October 6, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2978 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2978

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Liability of County for cost of removing electric poles along state highway.
Date: January 30, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-326 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-326

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Applicability to Fayette County of H.B. 257, 50th Legislature, relative to County Juvenile Boards.
Date: August 5, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6480 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6480

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Term or person appointed to fill vacancy in membership of the Board of Trustees of La Grange Independent School District.
Date: March 27, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History