Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Baggett, Robert A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capsule Filler (open access)

Capsule Filler

Patent for a device that fills capsules with medicine. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Brown, Patrick Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp. (open access)

Clamp.

Patent for a new and useful clamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Hauff, Isaac F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists, [primarily], of certain devices whereby the coupling-pin raised in the draw-head is supported until the draw-heads strike each other in coupling, when the coupling-pin falls by gravity" (lines 17-21).
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Thomason, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6918 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6918

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: County purchasing and leasing photostatic machine. Can the County Clerk and Commissioners' Court legally employ an operator of photostatic machine and pay him on piece-work or page basis, or is it the duty of Clerk and deputies to operate said machine?
Date: November 15, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Water Gage and Recorder (open access)

Combined Water Gage and Recorder

Patent for a combined gage and recorder meant to measure the water used in steam generators.
Date: April 15, 1919
Creator: Holland, J. M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Packing Cotton. (open access)

Device for Packing Cotton.

Patent for an improvement in devices for packing and compressing cotton in press-boxes. This patent is an improvement on the inventor's previous Letters Patent of the United States granted June 26, 1883, No. 280,333.
Date: December 15, 1885
Creator: Summer, Dewitt C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Bar Adjusting Mechanism. (open access)

Tongue Bar Adjusting Mechanism.

Patent for "a new and useful tongue-bar-adjusting mechanism for piano" (line 2) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1900
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design is "to combine a single and double plow so that they may be used either conjointly or independently of each other, and to provide means for the ready adjustment of the plow-beams with relation to each other and for the adjustment of the shovels so as to present the same at different inclinations for penetrating the ground at various depths" (lines 8-16).
Date: July 15, 1890
Creator: Walton, Sam Houston
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Feeder (open access)

Gin Feeder

Patent for a gin feeder. This invention is designed with an automatic stop mechanism to terminate the feeding mechanism whenever the gin becomes choked. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Norris, Michael E. & Norris, Jesse L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Socket Attachment for Harness (open access)

Socket Attachment for Harness

Patent for " harness construction ... whereby one strap of a harness is slidably connected with another strap. the device serving to reinforce that strap through which the slidable strap extends." (lines 9-14). Including illustrations.
Date: February 15, 1915
Creator: Westerman, Augustus H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History