Automatic Oiler (open access)

Automatic Oiler

Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Adams, Richard Field
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1418 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1418

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does Article 13a, Section 1 of the Charter of Palestine, Texas, prohibit the sale of beer outside the area as zoned by said Section of the Charter?
Date: August 17, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dust Guard for Car Windows. (open access)

Dust Guard for Car Windows.

Patent for a new and improved dust guard for windows. This design consists in "the body . . . which is of concavo-convex form, closed at its upper end by a transverse plate and provided at its lower end with a contracted opening for the discharge of cinders, dust, &c., said body portion being provided with means . . . for affecting its attachment to a window frame" (lines 77-85).
Date: May 17, 1887
Creator: Duzan, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History