Controlling Device for Water Heaters. (open access)

Controlling Device for Water Heaters.

Patent for a device that controls the gas supply valve for water heaters. Patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Cochran, Harry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Mowers (open access)

Attachment for Mowers

Patent for a dividing and feeding mower attachment to guide grain into the cutters of the mowers in an upright position.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Mosely, Jimmie E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indicating Apparatus for the Spark Plugs of Hydrocarbon Engines. (open access)

Indicating Apparatus for the Spark Plugs of Hydrocarbon Engines.

Patent for an indicating apparatus for the spark-plugs of hydrocarbon-engines. The apparatus allows the motor vehicle driver to determine "which spark plug is connected in circuit with the timer" (lines 20-21). The patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Remmert, Otto H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Burner. (open access)

Gas-Burner.

Patent for improved gas-burning water heaters. Improvements are meant to "insure complete and economical combustion of gas and to "prevent water of condensation accumulating on the exterior of the coil of the water heater from dropping into the flame opening of the burner and casing injury to the screen thereof" (Lines 20-24).
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Cochran, Harry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the twenty-sixth day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: March 13, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold. (open access)

Mold.

Patent for a mold for viscous materials that are meant to be hardened in the mold or afterward. It is designed to be easily removed from the cast without damaging it.
Date: August 13, 1901
Creator: Parker, William Sink
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap. (open access)

Fly-Trap.

Patent for a fly trap that is simple to make and use.
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Wallace, William Simpson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Blanco County, Index

Index map for Blanco County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:92,115.
Date: December 13, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Blanco County, Block 4

Parent map for Blanco County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 13, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Blanco County, Block 8

Parent map for Blanco County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 13, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-708 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-708

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; When, under section 2(b) of Article 2688L, Vernon's Civil Statutes, the abolishment of the office of County Superintendent becomes effective, do Articles 2701 and 3888, Vernon's Civil Statutes, apply: 1. To constitute the County Judge as ex-officio County Superintendent and related questions.
Date: June 13, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-790 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-790

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the counties located within the Kickapoo Watershed have the authority to pay for the maintenance cost of dams erected in the watershed under the particular facts stated.
Date: December 13, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-482 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-482

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Commissioners Court of El Paso County has the authority to grant an easement for construction of a natural gas underground pipeline across Ascarate Park, a county-established park, under the facts stated.
Date: August 13, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-162 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-162

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 Livestock Sanitary Commission of Texas change the location of its headquarters from Fort Worth, Texas, to Austin, Texas, should it so desire, in order to have better accommodations and at less cost, if possible?
Date: June 13, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts. (open access)

Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts.

Patent for a new and improved nut cleaner, polisher, and sorter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the nut-cleaning cylinder having the longitudinal door and transversely-arranged wire cylinders having doors, of the intermediate hopper, arranged lengthwise of the cylinder, as well as under it, and having apertures over the doors of the wire cylinders . . . and a series of sieves, successively increasing in mesh, of a perforated floor, an end plate terminating in [an] eccentric, an elevator, and a delivery spout" (lines 28-34).
Date: September 13, 1881
Creator: Koerber, Rudolph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Saddle. (open access)

Harness-Saddle.

Patent for a harness saddle that has a metallic frame that is hinged with straps, pads, guide straps that are secured to the pads and slide along straps, plates connected to a curved plate in the saddle, plates pivotally connected to the aforementioned plates, cylindrical lugs that are attached to plates, and cylindrical apertures that slip over the lugs.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Miller, John A. & Warmoth, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "will serve to cut and pulverize the soil and at the same time will act as a guide to the plow, whereby it may be steadied and caused to run more evenly" (lines 17-20). It consists, "with the beam, the standards provided with shovels, and the brace-rod, of the backwardly-extending arm pivoted to standards and having its free end formed into a knife-edge, the vertical bar secured to said arm intermediate of its ends and provided with a series of holes and the pin passing through the beam and through said holes" (lines 65-73).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Stuard, Charles Decatur
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Elevators. (open access)

Improvement in Elevators.

Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 13, 1871
Creator: Bishop, Josiah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Link. (open access)

Chain-Link.

Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
Date: November 13, 1860
Creator: Kirk, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History