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
Apparatus for Cooling Milk. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Milk.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Porter, Louis H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-209 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-209

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: Validity of the Milam County Special Tax Contract.
Date: January 26, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Conveyor (open access)

Aerial Conveyor

Patent for an aerial conveyor, specifically one that relates to "an aerial suspension car for aiding linemen in traveling along a suspended cable" (lines 9-11). It's primary function is to allow a wheeled car to be mounted on a cable and used to transport a person.
Date: August 26, 1919
Creator: Moore, Richard S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for a lifting jack that releases automatically when the lever is pulled down, is easy to operate, and is powerful.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Yeager, Ernest Curtis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starting Device. (open access)

Engine-Starting Device.

Patent for an engine starting device that does not require the use of a battery.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Huebner, Ferdinand P., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Slide (open access)

Plow Slide

Patent for a plow slide. Illustration included.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Schroeder, George L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earth Auger. (open access)

Earth Auger.

Patent for a new and improved auger. This design "relates to a new and improved earth-auger made funnel shaped, with side cutting-edges, and adapted to be inverted for emptying the auger; and the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-12).
Date: May 26, 1885
Creator: Porter, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History