Bandage. (open access)

Bandage.

Patent for bandage that prevents and/or reduces the occurrence of "double chin."
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Hardee, Virginia E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-513 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-513

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: Whether House Bill No. 140, 59th Legislature, 1965, authorizes the Commissioners Court of Jefferson County to increase the salary of Criminal District Attorney, Judge of the County Court-at-Law and Judge of the County Court-at-Law No. 2.
Date: September 20, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-30 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-30

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 Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to license a Grayson County resident to operate an employment agency in Jefferson County.
Date: April 20, 1953
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Winding Machine (open access)

Wire-Winding Machine

Patent for a wire winding machine for making well screens.
Date: August 20, 1912
Creator: Eastham, Albert Lindsay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills (open access)

Improvement in Windmills

Patent for the improvement of wind mills, that includes a detailed description as well as labeled figure drawings.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined. (open access)

Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined.

Patent for an invention "to combine a jack-screw or lifting-jack with a clamp, so that they may be interchangeably used." (Lines 19-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.; Jackson, Asberry C. & Watson, Claudius S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum. (open access)

Utilizing Sulfur-Containing Petroleum.

Patent for a method of removing sulfur from Beaumont petroleum and converting it into sulfuric acid.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Robinson, Clarence I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Starting Meachanism for Explosive Engines (open access)

Starting Meachanism for Explosive Engines

Patent for a mechanism for starting internal combustion engines, and particularly that form of starting devices in which a torsion spring is used.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Appleman, Boyd K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Door for Cars (open access)

Grain-Door for Cars

Patent for a door for grain containers. Illustrations included.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Miller, Rudolph Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete Step Mold (open access)

Concrete Step Mold

Patent for concrete that when used multiple times will produce a flight of stairs.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Baldwin, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drawers-Supporter. (open access)

Drawers-Supporter.

Patent for a new and useful drawers supporter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 20, 1898
Creator: James, Thomas S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Rim. (open access)

Collapsible Rim.

Patent for new and useful improvements related to demountable rims that are collapsible. This improvement facilitates the removal of a tire in an easier and expeditious manner.
Date: May 20, 1919
Creator: King, Willis C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book-Holding Device (open access)

Book-Holding Device

Patent for a book-holding device that will keep books open by holding back turned pages, with illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Barry, David Redmond
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History