Spike Puller (open access)

Spike Puller

Patent for a spike puller. This invention uses a clawed head set on a roller where by a fulcrum can move inward to apply power to pull the spike. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Bradshaw, Richard A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Filing Machine (open access)

Saw Filing Machine

Patent for an improved type of saw filing machine.
Date: March 18, 1919
Creator: Creasy, R. B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing and Gumming Machine (open access)

Saw-Filing and Gumming Machine

Patent for a saw filing and gumming machine for sharpening gin saws.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Creasy, Reuben B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for an inexpensive, durable, easily-operated, and powerful hay press that packs hay and similar materials. It consists of a baling chamber, a power platform, a stub shaft, a grooveless power wheel, a tire on the upper side of the wheel, a roller, and a draft-pole.
Date: March 21, 1893
Creator: Gressett, Lawrence Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gage. (open access)

Saw-Gage.

Patent for saw gages that can be produced at a small cost which can be applied to a standard saw blade. The saw-gage can also grip the saw-blade tightly while also allowing the saw-blade to bend without breaking, and can be adjusted before securing permanently.
Date: March 18, 1919
Creator: Hinkle, Matison E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6464 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6464

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: Whether the Commissioners' Court of Runnels County can legally pay the County Treasurer additional compensation for keeping books for the County Commissioners.
Date: March 5, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Runnels County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Runnels County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Runnels County, Texas.
Date: March 1970
Creator: Wiedenfeld, C. C.; Barnhill, L. J. & Novosad, Clifford J.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History