Handle for Pans, Tubs, &c. (open access)

Handle for Pans, Tubs, &c.

Patent for a wire handle for pans, tubs, &c that consists of two handles on either side of the tub, which are connected via a wire that fits in the lip of the rim of the receptacle. The handles, when taken out of the receptacle, consist of one single frame.
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: Brown, John Stoddart
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Flooring (open access)

Sanitary Flooring

Patent for sanitary flooring to be used in toilet rooms to protect from unsanitary floors and odors. Illustrations included.
Date: July 6, 1909
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Insect Guard for Furniture (open access)

Design for Insect Guard for Furniture

Design patent for an insect-guard for furniture that is both useful and ornamental.
Date: July 6, 1897
Creator: Collier, John Charlis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for improvement in bale-ties by reducing a series of motions to fasten and unfasten the tie to simply just one single motion. Illustration is included.
Date: June 6, 1876
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Engine-Cut-Out Valve. (open access)

Locomotive-Engine-Cut-Out Valve.

Patent for valves on locomotives that allow the locomotive to continue to operate under specified conditions until it can be repaired or the locomotive has reached its destination, including illustrations.
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Dugan, Samuel Austin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Retort. (open access)

Electrical Retort.

Patent for a new and useful electrical retort.
Date: April 6, 1898
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredge For Hard Or Soft Mud. (open access)

Dredge For Hard Or Soft Mud.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dredges for hard or soft mud, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1899
Creator: Ford, James Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Baling Cotton. (open access)

Method of Baling Cotton.

Patent for a method of baling cotton. The cotton is taken direct from the gin, condensed, compressed progressively into a thin sheet of suitable density, and baled, the bale being formed previous to the expansion of the fiber.
Date: November 5, 1890
Creator: Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shape-Retaining Device for Felt Hats. (open access)

Shape-Retaining Device for Felt Hats.

Patent for a device that retains the shape of felt hats and restores felt hats that have lost their original form, illustrations included.
Date: August 6, 1918
Creator: Hausinger, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turpentine-Stills. (open access)

Improvement in Turpentine-Stills.

Patent for improvement in turpentine distillation and purification with bleaching and refinement.
Date: May 6, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waiterless Restaurant (open access)

Waiterless Restaurant

Patent for a waiterless restaurant design with electrically operated waiters.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Paul, Charles P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH. (open access)

CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.

Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 6, 1880
Creator: Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator. (open access)

Station-Indicator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 6, 1898
Creator: Rogers, Alexander Hunter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-50 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-50

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County of Galveston may expend flood control funds derived from the collection of taxes under the provisions of Article 7048a, V. C. S., for the maintenance of seawalls constructed and financed under the provisions of Article 6830, V. C. S.
Date: April 6, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Guard for Railway-Trucks. (open access)

Safety-Guard for Railway-Trucks.

Patent for a new design of a guard-rail to make train wheels move more safely, with illustrations.
Date: September 6, 1887
Creator: Tull, Francis Shalis.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History