Improvement in Washing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Millegan, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling that has a draw-bar attached to the car, a hollow draw-head with a flaring opening that sits horizontally to the draw-bar, a spring that holds the draw-head in the horizontal position, a bar that raises and lowers the forward end of the draw-head against the spring, a coupling-pin that sits in the draw-head, a chain that connects the draw-head to the bell-crank lever, a cam that supports the chain, and a device that turns the cam in either direction in order to tighten the chain.
Date: March 31, 1896
Creator: Epps, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Solutions for Preserving Meats. (open access)

Improvement in Solutions for Preserving Meats.

Patent for preserving perishable foods. The "Texas Meat-Preserving Process." (lines 9-10)
Date: March 26, 1878
Creator: McCulley, Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Galley. (open access)

Printer's Galley.

Patent for a new and improved printer's galley. This design consists of a novel arrangement of the galley parts that "dispenses with the time, labor, and expense incurred in manipulating quoins and side-sticks, mallet, shooting-stick, &c." (lines 60-62).
Date: March 7, 1882
Creator: Rudolph, Elijah K. & Wolfe, Joseph A. L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Scale. (open access)

Grain-Scale.

Patent for “improvements in grain-scales, especially adapted for location at the rear end of a trashing-machine and for receiving therefrom the thrashed grain, weighing and subsequently bagging the same in predetermined quantities” (lines 7-12), includes illustration.
Date: March 17, 1891
Creator: Butts, Alexander W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for an improvement in plows by using a series of spring-tines that are secured above the mold-board, when in operation these independently-moving tines “serve to jar and break the clods, thus not only pulverizing the clods to a certain degree but also insuring the freeing of the tines of all dirt” (lines 90-93), including illustration.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Ball, Alfred Fine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows. (open access)

Attachment for Wheel-Plows.

Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date: December 21, 1878
Creator: Cummins, John Randolph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-521 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-521

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: Maximum compensation of Justices of the Peace in Collin County.
Date: March 15, 1948
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-53 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-53

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: Legality of consumption of alcoholic beverages in dry areas of Collin County .
Date: March 7, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Grinding Disks. (open access)

Machine for Grinding Disks.

Patent for improvements in grinding-machines in which it can “hold the disk rigidly at a desired angle and can be adjusted from or toward a grinding device;” (lines 13-15) by using a “combination of an adjustable gear, a grinding-wheel and means for imparting motion from the grinding-wheel to the gear; of a spring-pressed roller above the gear and adapted to hold a disk thereon in contact with the wheel.” (Page 2, lines 65-70) Illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Shipp, Abijah T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c (open access)

Knee Pad for Cotton Pickers &c

Patent for a knee pad for cotton pickers with a pneumatic cushion.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Herron, William Patrick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Putty-Trowel. (open access)

Putty-Trowel.

Patent for a putty trowel for use in installing windows.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Wright, Sam F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow. Illustrations included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Stanley, Simon K.; Maynard, Willie C. & Maynard, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting-Nippers. (open access)

Cutting-Nippers.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cutting nippers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Love, Robert Hamilton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Hart, Granville M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Hardin Road and White Avenue and Overflow Swale (open access)

Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Hardin Road and White Avenue and Overflow Swale

A report of and archaeological survey of the proposed Hardin Road, White avenue, and 12 acres of overflow swale to be excavated in Wilson Creek's floodplain.
Date: March 5, 2007
Creator: Todd, Jesse
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke Stack Protector (open access)

Smoke Stack Protector

Patent for adjustable smoke stack protector that stays open when in use and covers the opening when not in order to protect from rain, wind, dirt to protect the stack from deteriorating.
Date: March 17, 1914
Creator: French, Elmer C. & Craig, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Gage. (open access)

Saw Gage.

Patent for saw gage "adapted for use in connection with hand saws where the same is to be employed in cutting kerfs." (Lines 10-13)
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Faires, Elisha J. & Stockburger, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pen Point Holder. (open access)

Pen Point Holder.

Patent for a pen point holder, made cheaply with a small number of necessary parts. The pen point holder allows the nib of a pen to be removed from the pen without use of the fingers so that they may remain clean. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: McCombs, Charles C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash Gearing and Lock (open access)

Window-Sash Gearing and Lock

Patent for a window sash mechanism that allows the upper and lower portions of a window to be adjusted and locked independently of each other.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Peaden, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History