Corn-Planter (open access)

Corn-Planter

Patent for improvements in the construction of corn planters.
Date: October 22, 1889
Creator: Williams, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-500 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-500

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Status of Hunt County District Attorney under Senate Bill No. 22, Acts 1969, 61st Leg., 2nd C. S.
Date: October 22, 1969
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0480 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0480

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a deputy sheriff may use a county petrol vehicle to perform off duty security work (RQ-0482-GA).
Date: October 31, 2006
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-513 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-513

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: May the County Commissioners of Hunt County drive and operate motor vehicles owned and maintained by the county in the performance of their duties and also draw the monthly expense allowance authorized under Section 2, Article 2350n, Vernon's Civil Statutes, and related questions.
Date: October 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a new churn, an improvement on the device shown in prior Patent Number 944,129 granted December 21, 1909.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Floyd, Ellis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line. (open access)

Clothes-Line.

Patent for Clothes-Line that is to supply an endless amount of clothesline in order to facilitate easy placement and/or removal of clothing from the line.
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Anderson, Chester A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mortising Machine. (open access)

Mortising Machine.

Patent for a new mortising-machine attachment for lathes or boring mills, designed to securely attach a bracket, hollow chisel, and boring bit to the machine, allowing for adjustable positioning to match the machine's work support.
Date: October 25, 1921
Creator: Andrews, Alluwee C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a fence-wire stretcher with an improved clamping device for holding the wire after it has already been drawn. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Sharpe, Thomas F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twine-Cutter. (open access)

Twine-Cutter.

Patent for improvements in rope-cutters by designing a “cutter having a slotted bracket with a lateral extension or bearing that has a longitudinal slot and a stop,” with a “combination of a lever-handle having a projecting knife-blade, registering with the slot in the bearing.” (Lines 81-86) This enable the rope to be cut in a single operation without sever the fibers. (Lines 74-76) Illustration is included.
Date: October 13, 1891
Creator: Maulden, Chester Doctor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washboard. (open access)

Washboard.

Patent for a washboard, with improvements to the conventional washboard such as "having a scrubbing surface formed of transversely arranged, longitudinally twisted wires, which (...) have their ends cleated to the board which prevent displacement" (lines 15-19), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Butler James. F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for a simple and effective hay-press that consists of a plunger, a spring actuated toggle lever that is connected to the plunger, a toothed segment on the lever, a draft attachment with a toothed section that lines up with the toothed segment on the lever, a tongue, a disk connected to the tongue, a cross bar on the frame, plates attached to the cross bar, a pitman, a brake, and a mechanism that throws the brake into action.
Date: October 24, 1893
Creator: Wilson, Albert G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoof Trimmer (open access)

Hoof Trimmer

Patent for a hoof trimmer. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Polk, Neal R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Fan. (open access)

Fly-Fan.

Patent for improvements in fly fans, is to use the fan in conjunction “with screen doors whereby during the opening and closing of the door the fan will be operated in a direction to direct a current of air outwardly and thereby act as a barrier against the ingress of flies” (lines 16-21). Illustration is included.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Williams, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Rod Handle. (open access)

Fishing-Rod Handle.

Patent for a fishing rod handle that also functions as a pistol.
Date: October 7, 1919
Creator: Key, Henry C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float (open access)

Fishing-Float

Patent for a new type of fishing float with "ferrules or caps" (line 18) on the ends to prevent water from getting into the float, causing it to decay, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: October 23, 1917
Creator: Scott, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carriage (open access)

Cotton-Sack Carriage

Patent for a simply structured carriage that will provide support to cotton sacks varying in different lengths.
Date: October 6, 1914
Creator: Alexander, Eugene E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Paris, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History