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Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton
Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Brennan, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Railway-Rail
Patent for a compound railway-rail. This invention is a solid open jointed rail whereby two longitudinal section may be brought together without creating open joints. Illustration included.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Stephens, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for "a simple device of this kind which will excel the former traps in depositing the ants within the annular pan and in efficiency for convenient discharge of the trapped insects" (lines 18-22).
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Inman, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a chopper and cultivator with a rod with moveable blades attached that allows for the blades to be changed between different types for planting or cultivating.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Odom, Elbert T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Grain-Measuring Machine.
Patent for automatic grain-measuring machine, with illustrations. The purpose of this automatic grain-measuring machine is to be an improvement to already existing machines.
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Grissom, Abram Jackson.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the standards, the longitudinal bars connecting the same, the driving-shaft journaled on the upper bars, the counter-shaft journaled on the lower bars and provided with a crank-disk at one end, gearing between the driving-shaft and the counter-shaft, the balance-wheel on the counter-shaft, the rock-shaft journaled on the upper bars and provided with the oppositely-extending crank-arms between the said bars, the crank arm depending from the end of the rock-shaft, [and] the pitman" (lines 88-99).
Date:
April 29, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-109
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: Can the County Auditor of Grayson County legally approve a warrant payable to the County Health Officer for services acting in such capacity while at the same time acting as duly elected and qualified Mayor of the City of Sherman, Texas, and receiving a salary therefor? And related questions.
Date:
April 23, 1957
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-30
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 Bureau of Labor Statistics to license a Grayson County resident to operate an employment agency in Jefferson County.
Date:
April 20, 1953
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Rail-Joint.
Patent for improvements in connecting rails without the use of bolts and nuts but instead using two fish-plates.
Date:
April 20, 1915
Creator:
Richardson, Charles I. & Hall, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp Attachment
Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
Date:
April 2, 1918
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 1
Report on the quality and availability of ground water in the cretaceous aquifers of north-central Texas. Includes maps, hydrographs, rainfall data, pumpage, and more.
Date:
April 1982
Creator:
Nordstrom, Phillip L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Windlass
Patent for improved windlass for an automobile that attaches to both rear wheels to prevent idling
Date:
April 20, 1920
Creator:
Davis, Marion A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for improvements to cylinder washing machines.
Date:
April 29, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Shield.
Patent for a tool to cover a portion of barbed wire fence allowing one to cross over or through without harm, composed of three or more telescoping metal tubes.
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Davis, Marion L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to that class of wire stretchers or tighteners which are adapted to be applied upon the strands of wire forming a fence, and are used to tighten or stretch the same by winding the strand about one end of the device and engaging the other end of the latter with the strand" ( lines 11-17).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Irvine, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Leather-Cutting Gages
Patent for improvement in leather cutting-gages in order to negate the need for the set-screw at the end of the gage handle that is needed to hold the rule. The document contains instructions and illustrations of the device.
Date:
April 17, 1877
Creator:
Lindsay, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Wheel
Patent for a trolley wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Neighbour, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicinal Compound.
Patent for an anti-inflammatory compound intended for use on both humans and animals.
Date:
April 10, 1883
Creator:
Bright, Harvey S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protective Carpet-Lining
Patent for a lining to protect carpets from wear and maintain sanitation. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Koll, Louis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Bradshaw, Richard A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Syringe.
Patent for a new and improved syringe. This design consists in "[a] syringe provided with a reservoir at the end of the piston-rod outside of the syringe-barrel, said reservoir communicating through the piston-rod with a fibrous piston-head and adapted to contain a suitable liquid, whereby said piston-head is kept continually moistened" (lines 62-68).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Glasscock, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry Closet
Patent for a dry closet.
Date:
April 14, 1903
Creator:
Davis, Samuel & Hanson, A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspenders
Patent for suspenders. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Scott, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Car Door.
Patent for Grain-Car Door. "The object the present invention is to arrange the door for use in transporting grain without requiring any additional grain door or planking on the inside door opening." (Line 3)
Date:
April 23, 1918
Creator:
Hartough, Edward W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History