Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus

Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Anderson, Henry Clay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-945 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-945

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: If a county wide local option election were held in Grayson County resulting in a dry vote, what effect would such election have on the local option election held by the City of Denison on July 9, 1960?
Date: October 5, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truss (open access)

Truss

Patent for a truss for the use of alleviating abdominal hernias. Illustrations included.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Baker, Littleton Lafayette
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge. (open access)

Suspension-Bridge.

Patent for suspension bridges and a mechanism to overcome the vertical motion in floors of spans of bridges and provides a permanent anchorage for the cables.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Greer, William H. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hog Trough (open access)

Hog Trough

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hog-Troughs" (lines 5-6).
Date: December 5, 1905
Creator: Bookout, Hugh B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Sawing Machine. (open access)

Hand Sawing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved hand sawing-machine. This design "relates to improvements in hand sawing-machines in which a vertically-movable frame-work supporting the driving mechanism operates in conjunction with a horizontally-reciprocating cross-head for carrying the saw; and the object of [the] improvements is to provide a portable hand-power machine for the rapid cutting of stove-wood, and for other light sawing" (lines 8-16).
Date: December 5, 1882
Creator: York, Martin V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie (open access)

Railway Tie

Patent for a railway tie.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: McComas, Charles F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cradle. (open access)

Cradle.

Patent for a new and improved cradle. This design "has for its object to provide a hanging cradle suspended from its [frame] . . . being arranged in such a manner whereby the cradle is capable of being moved . . . in an easy, uniform, and steady motion without the danger of tilting over" (lines 8-16). It consists in "[a] swinging cradle comprising the folding end bars, the cross-bar having a depressed portion and end projections forming the pivotal axes for the bars, the catches pivoted to the end bars and adapted to engage the depressed part of the bar . . . and the spring-suspensions" (lines 12-18).
Date: July 5, 1892
Creator: Meek, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History