Apparatus for Handling Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Cotton.

Patent for an apparatus for handling seed-cotton. This apparatus is designed to move seed-cotton to gin-feeders, then from the condenser to the press, and also for conveying seeds and motes to an area of deposit.
Date: June 19, 1890
Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2685 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2685

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the circumstances is Victoria County required to reimburse DeWitt County for the jury fees expended in the trial of the mentioned case?
Date: September 9, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, September 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, September 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper South Texas area.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Protector. (open access)

Baby-Protector.

Patent for a protective device designed to keep an infant from sufficiently bending their arms and reaching their mouth, thereby preventing the child from potentially ingesting dangerous foreign articles.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Dodd, Jacob Everette
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Passenger Recorder (open access)

Passenger Recorder

Patent for "automatically auditing the number of passengers and the distance traveled by said passengers while en route on a train or other public conveyance." (lines 9-13)
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Rudolf Brown, of Cuero, Texas.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.

Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
Date: September 5, 1876
Creator: Bunker, Thaddeus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for hydrocarbon-burner "adapted to be used in stoves, both heating and cooking" (lines 17-18). The device "may be attached to any stove" (lines 24-25). The "invention consists in the novel construction of the burner and particularly the cap" (lines 27-28) as well as "other novel features" (lines 29-30).
Date: September 8, 1903
Creator: George, Charles Hentz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener. (open access)

Hame Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "consists of an adjustable regulating fastener for the upper and lower ends of the hames, and this fastener is further provided with a swinging loop, to which the breast-strap may be attached on the lower fastener and the strap on the upper fastener when desired" (lines 19-25).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Hake, Francis A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring (open access)

Spring

Patent for a spring for footwear that helps facilitate foot movement such as walking, running, jumping, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: Backermann, Henry G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History