Auto-Door Stop (open access)

Auto-Door Stop

Patent for a door stop that is cheap to produce and holds doors firmly.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Hill, Ulysses H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pen and Pencil Rack (open access)

Combined Pen and Pencil Rack

Patent for a pen and pencil rack. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Twaddell, Janie S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0817 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0817

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the El Paso county Attorney may provide legal advice and representation to the El Paso County Ethics Commission(RQ-0847-GA).
Date: November 19, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-342 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-342

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 the Commissioners Court of El Paso County has authority to lease the Coliseum to private individuals for the purpose of conducting a furniture sale.
Date: November 3, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-432 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-432

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: Constitutionality of H.B. 796, Acts 50th Leg., 1947, as it relates to juvenile officers in El Paso County.
Date: November 15, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arch and Instep Support for Boots and Shoes (open access)

Arch and Instep Support for Boots and Shoes

Patent for a removable arch and instep support as part of a shoe or boot.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Rokahr, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Separator. (open access)

Slime-Separator.

Patent for a slime-separator "to provide means for automatically regulating the separate water flow, and discharging the solid proportionally with the settling of the solids in the receptacle" (lines 44-47). The patent includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso Annual Financial Report: 2014 (open access)

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso Annual Financial Report: 2014

Annual financial report of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2014.
Date: November 11, 2014
Creator: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for a windmill that rotates on a vertical and horizontal axis. The blades are mounted to stop in order to prevent damage to the windmill should pressure occur.
Date: November 11, 1919
Creator: Brown, Archie Edwards
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an improvement to the "construction of windmills and to provide means for varying the stroke of a windmill with the velocity or force of the wind, to increase the length of the stroke as the velocity of the wind increases, and to reduce the length of stroke as the force of the wind abates." (lines 10-16)
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Tinney, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Shearing or Cutting Metal (open access)

Machine for Shearing or Cutting Metal

Patent for an improved machine that will shear and cut metals.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Crane, Walter E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator. (open access)

Water Elevator.

Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design "has for its object to provide for the escape of the air initially held in the upper bends of the screw, so as to relieve the same of the pneumatic pressure caused thereby in connection with the ascending water, thus causing less resistance to the rotation of the screw, enabling it to be operated by decreased motive power" (lines 11-18).
Date: November 9, 1886
Creator: Campbell, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Dispensing Apparatus (open access)

Liquid Dispensing Apparatus

Patent for liquid dispensing apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George Edwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Working Barrel. (open access)

Pump Working Barrel.

Patent for a pump working barrel, construction of glass pump cylinder
Date: November 11, 1913
Creator: Kilburn, John Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projection Apparatus (open access)

Projection Apparatus

Patent for projection apparatus to project moving pictures on to screens.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Norte, Francisco
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track Appliance for Automatic Stops (open access)

Track Appliance for Automatic Stops

Patent for a new and improved track appliance for automatic stops in relation to railway trains.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Bulla, Melbern B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Speiss. (open access)

Process of Treating Speiss.

Patent for "a new and improved process for treating speiss to obtain the valuable metals contained therein" (lines 8-10).
Date: November 15, 1892
Creator: Flury, Paul
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Metallic Zinc (open access)

Process of Producing Metallic Zinc

Patent for a process of producing metallic zinc. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Dawson, Oliver B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stamp and Coin Envelop. (open access)

Stamp and Coin Envelop.

Patent for stamp and coin envelope that has "a separate pocket for receiving coin, postage stamps or sundry articles to be transmitted through the mail in such a manner as to be kept separate from the contents of the envelop and also to insure safe delivery" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Zivley, Dennis C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing-Gasket (open access)

Packing-Gasket

Patent for a packing gasket comprising a soft metal sleeve formed to a non-leaking joint between connected pipes.
Date: November 6, 1920
Creator: Allison, Jesse H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press (open access)

Hay-Press

Patent for a hay-press that has an improved plunger.
Date: November 12, 1912
Creator: Wetzig, Ernest L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Form For Concrete Vessels (open access)

Form For Concrete Vessels

Patent for large, concrete vessels, meant as a mold to "be used again and again in building different vessels" (lines 17-18).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Kroeger, Otto P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch. (open access)

Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway switch that can be activated from a moving train and has its moving parts in a casing.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: McCalib, David C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History