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Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1904
Creator:
Scott, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Picker
Patent for a fruit picker. Illustration included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Mosier, Harry L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for a corn and cotton planter that plants seeds in hills of equal distance from one another.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Roy, Henry F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Charm.
Patent for watch charms or badges with "interchangeable emblems" (lines 11-12) to facilitate on-demand charm or badge creation through a separate stock of emblem carriers and the "interchangeable emblems."
Date:
October 31, 1911
Creator:
Friedman, Bernhard Z.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine
Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date:
September 2, 1902
Creator:
Fender, John Brown
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. This invention is an implement lies in supporting the plow feet from the cultivator beams in such a manner in order to adjust the placing of the plow shanks. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 29, 1912
Creator:
Crouch, William V.; Crouch, McElvy S. & Martin, H. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pedaling Brake.
Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Wallerich, Nicholas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Cane Cultivator
Patent for Cotton and Cane Cultivator. Laterally-movable hoe that can be thrown in and out of action.
Date:
October 18, 1902
Creator:
Dodd, John A. & Dodd, J. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Oil-Press.
Patent for a continuous oil press for use in pressing oil from seeds, nuts, and fruits.
Date:
October 31, 1911
Creator:
Blain, Frank A. & Hill, Clyve D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator. This invention is designed to be automatic, use non-freezing fluids, and work on railway trains or ships. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Woodson, Jacob W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Elevator Gate
Patent for an elevator gate that will automatically be raised or lowered upon ascent or descent of the elevator, with illustrations.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
McNaught, Ira S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Out for Electric Circuits.
Patent for a new and improved cut-out for circuits. This design consists in "[a] cut-out for an incandescent lamp embodying, essentially, a magnet or solenoid in derivation from the filament, spring-contacts completing the circuit from the filament to the line on one side, and an armature-lever electrically connected with said magnet adapted to disrupt the circuit between said contacts and maintain the continuity of the circuit through itself" (lines 93-101).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
McDill, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "an automatic car-coupling which may be uncoupled from the sides of the cars, and which will allow of a car on which it is provided being coupled to a car provided with the ordinary link-and-pin coupling" (lines 7-12).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Eddleman, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box-Fastener.
Patent for an improved box-fastener for cases and boxes that hold bottled liquids. The invention allows for the cover to be easily removed, and hangs on the side of the box when not being used. The cover can be used on an ordinary box without altering the box.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Beck, Edwin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Turnpaugh, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for an Advertising-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising banner that has a decorative border around the edge and bangles suspended from the lower edge.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings in which it can be adapted “to the draw-heads of car-couplings that is already in used and that there need not be two similar couplings of this character in order to permit the device to operate successfully.” (Lines 74-78) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
Yates, Junius E. M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1320
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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Present maximum compensation of county officials in Tarrant County.
Date:
October 17, 1951
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1170
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 the Tarrant County Hospital District is authorized to add the functions and duties of the Senior Public Health Nurse under the facts stated.
Date:
October 19, 1961
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for aeroplane with an improved carrying capacity.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Millican, Joel W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cabinets.
Patent for Attachment for Cabinets. An adjustable bracket that attaches to various pieces of cabinetry or furniture for supporting water basins for easy reach.
Date:
October 28, 1913
Creator:
Austin, W. E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine.
Patent for a con-controlled vending-machine that sells stamps and similar products including illustrations. The machine "compels a complete cycle of operation for each coin received and cannot be rendered inoperative through the deposit of a plurality of coins in the chute or while the operation of the machine is in progress." (lines 14-17).
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
William O. Wolford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Demonstrating and Testing Piston Packing Rings
Patent for an apparatus that allows for a more accurate and efficient way to test piston packing rings by measuring ease of movement.
Date:
October 2, 1917
Creator:
Holland, Kirk D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History