Automatic Safety-Burner (open access)

Automatic Safety-Burner

Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Splettstosser, Fritz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk-Cabinet (open access)

Desk-Cabinet

Patent for a metal desk cabinet for holding office supplies.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Grogan, Edward W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clip (open access)

Clip

Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Porter, Louis H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses. (open access)

Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.

Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Speight, Winchester Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Poultry-Disinfector (open access)

Automatic Poultry-Disinfector

Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Donathan, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Plows" (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: November 26, 1901
Creator: Sprain, Joseph Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Educational Chart, Drawing Board, and Writing-Desk (open access)

Combined Educational Chart, Drawing Board, and Writing-Desk

Patent for a piece of furniture that can act as an educational chart, drawing board, or a writing desk. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Henderson, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Mechanism (open access)

Car-Door Mechanism

Patent for a sliding car door mechanism.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Gradick, Wiley Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Parsley, Samuel E.
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
Electric Switching Device (open access)

Electric Switching Device

Patent for an electric switch for railways. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Posey, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder. (open access)

Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.

Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date: November 26, 1895
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton

Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter and Water Purifier. (open access)

Filter and Water Purifier.

Patent for a new and improved water filter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a water-pump having upwardly-opening valves, an air-pump having downwardly-opening valves, and two perforated cylinders surrounding the pump-tubes and provided with a packing of filtering material, the water-pump tube opening into the inner cylinder, and the pump-tube passing entirely through both heads of the same" (lines 61-68).
Date: November 26, 1889
Creator: Stiles, Frederick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 18, Number 89, Pages 8715-8825, November 26, 1993 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 18, Number 89, Pages 8715-8825, November 26, 1993

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 26, 1993
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 16, Number 88, Pages 6821-6876, November 26, 1991 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 16, Number 88, Pages 6821-6876, November 26, 1991

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 26, 1991
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 21, Number 88, Pages 11423-11548, November 26, 1996 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 21, Number 88, Pages 11423-11548, November 26, 1996

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 26, 1996
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-457 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-457

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 state indemnification and defense in certain legal actions pursuant to chapter 104 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code is available to a volunteer performing services for a state agency.
Date: November 26, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-458 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-458

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 Family Code section 261.101(a) permits a registered sex-offender-treatment provider discretion to report information regarding possible child abuse.
Date: November 26, 1997
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO90-101 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO90-101

Letter opinion 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.
Date: November 26, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 10, Number 88, Pages 4557-4594, November 26, 1985 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 10, Number 88, Pages 4557-4594, November 26, 1985

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 26, 1985
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 7, Number 88, Pages 4093-4124, November 26, 1982 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 7, Number 88, Pages 4093-4124, November 26, 1982

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 26, 1982
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 1, Number 92, Pages 3329-3350, November 26, 1976 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 1, Number 92, Pages 3329-3350, November 26, 1976

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: November 26, 1976
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-582 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-582

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a lease agreement between Midland County and a museum violates limitations on the use of public funds in article III, section 52 and restrictions on public debt in article XI, section 7 of the Texas Constitution, and related questions (RQ-0543-JC)
Date: November 26, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History