Tool for Tightening Wheel Tires. (open access)

Tool for Tightening Wheel Tires.

Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a tubular member having having one end beveled and provided with a transverse hole and provided at its other end with an interiorly-arranged annular shoulder, a set-screw passing through the tubular member and arranged near the shoulder, a nut resting on the tubular member and provided with an extension projecting into the same and bearing on the shoulder and provided with an annular groove receiving the set-screw, and a screw passing through the nut into the tubular member" (lines 28-39).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Hamblen, William Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6681 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6681

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: Authority of Texas Prison System to sell to City of Huntsville land for airport as provided by Ch. 242, Acts 49th Legis. , Regular Session, 1945, page 378.
Date: July 19, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History