Blotter. (open access)

Blotter.

Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 14, 1891
Creator: Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-635 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-635

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: Whether dependent and neglected child cases are to be filed in the District Court or the Juvenile Court of Galveston County.
Date: May 29, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-59 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-59

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, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the judge of the new special probate court in Galveston County to act on delayed registrations of births and deaths.
Date: June 29, 1953
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6568 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6568

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: House Bill No. 740, Acts, 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945, transferring control of Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital from State Board of Control to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, and related questions.
Date: October 29, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy (open access)

Toy

Patent for a toy particularly adapted for the amusement of small children.
Date: May 29, 1914
Creator: Boyle, Frank J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a wrench that can be adjusted without the use of screws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Thomas, Theodore G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine

Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Clough, George Golden
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph Apparatus. (open access)

Telegraph Apparatus.

Patent for a telegraph apparatus for which a "permanent record may be made" (lines 25-26) with a typewriter. The telegraph apparatus also allows for "positive and minus impulses" (line 40) to be sent over the telegraph line. Illustrations included. Best Available Copy -- some fading of the text on first, third, and fifth pages; third page illegible in some places.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Edwards, Claude M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Miner's Lamp. (open access)

Miner's Lamp.

Patent for a miner's lamp with a combustion chamber that allows for the regulation and extinguishing of the flame. It is designed to be lightweight and cheap to manufacture.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Sallander, Carl G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pocket Hair Brush. (open access)

Pocket Hair Brush.

Patent for useful improvements on the pocket hairbrush in which the bristles are movably mounted in a supporting frame in order to make the brush more compact.
Date: October 29, 1918
Creator: Walbach, James de B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Wheel. (open access)

Spring-Wheel.

Patent for new improvements for Spring-Wheels "in which the springs are rigidly secured to the hub portion and pivotally connected with the rim portion" (lines 10-12) including construction and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Rozankovich, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Street-Car. (open access)

Street-Car.

Patent for improving the construction of street cars which turn upon the truck. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1885
Creator: Cutter, Martin A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shell. (open access)

Shell.

Patent for improvements to explosive projectile shells. Provides a shell adapted to contain gas and high explosives with constructed multi-layered shells with the intent to inflict as much damage as possible.
Date: April 29, 1919
Creator: Aoughsten, Richard G. & Aoughsten, Otto L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Harness Hame. (open access)

Reversible Harness Hame.

Patent for a new and improved hame. This design consists "of wood, properly curved to conform to the configuration of a horse-collar, and having their front and rear sides shaped alike, so that they may be applied interchangeably to the right or left sides to the collar. To accomplish such result [the design] provide[s] each hame with a swiveling trace attachment" (lines 7-14).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Lewis, Lewis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar and Carriage Umbrella. (open access)

Mosquito Bar and Carriage Umbrella.

Patent for a new and improved mosquito bar and carriage umbrella. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a tube adapted to be applied to the head-board of a bed, and having a lateral slot and roller therein, of a set-screw passing into the said tube, a curved tube adjustably supported in the straight tube, a parasol on the end of the curved tube, and a cord passing through the tubes to operate the parasol" (lines 58-65).
Date: November 29, 1887
Creator: Blunt, Walter F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar Frame. (open access)

Mosquito Bar Frame.

Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the upright bars having their upper ends reduced . . . and provided with staples, the brackets, having loops at opposite ends and a pintle on its lower branch to enter the staples in the posts, the lateral rods carrying the loop brackets at opposite ends, and sockets . . . to receive the upper ends of the posts, the inner cross-bar arranged in the inner brackets of the lateral rods, the outer cross-bar arranged in the outer brackets of said rods, and the longitudinally-adjustable slide-bar carrying guide-eyes" lines 82-95).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: Meyers, John Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for an improved rail joint.
Date: August 29, 1911
Creator: Kotlarich, Pete M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Dressing-Cabinet. (open access)

Portable Dressing-Cabinet.

Invention for a portable structure to be used as a dressing-cabinet that is easy to set up and take down, light enough to move on rollers, conveniently accessible, and containing mirrors and folding shelves.
Date: August 29, 1905
Creator: Mistrot, Felix Emile
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Wagon. (open access)

Dumping-Wagon.

Patent for a simple and durable dumping-wagon that "consists principally of a body made in two pivoted parts and a lever fulcrumed on the wagon-frame and adapted to impart a swinging motion to the said parts to the dump of the body" (lines 12-16).
Date: October 29, 1895
Creator: Theobald, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Machine. (open access)

Baling-Machine.

Patent for a "cotton bale provided with a fire-proof covering in the form of a box or casing of sheet metal, and to have the same so applied to the bale in the process of compressing the cotton in forming the bale, that the said covering will of itself form the entire means for holding the bale intact and in its tightly compressed condition, while serving its additional function as a shipping case which will protect the bale of cotton from fire, and from all possible damage incidental to transportation and storage." (Lines 16-27) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 29, 1895
Creator: Hutches, Benjamin F., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History