78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 10 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 10

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to the wrestling team of St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas on its 500th dual meet win.
Date: May 23, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products. (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products.

Patent for a new "method for burning all of the products usually known as "waste products" and to eliminate the fumes and poisonous vapors." (lines 27-30) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Jansen, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing Device (open access)

Automatic Computing Device

Patent for an automatic computing device that can calculate the price of goods and be used to take inventory of stock.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Miracle, Meredith W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Printing Device (open access)

Automatic Printing Device

Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Barradall, Norborne D. & Bradley, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Bed-Rack. (open access)

Automobile Bed-Rack.

Patent for a bed rack (bed roll) located at the rear of a car so that once the car cushions have been placed to form a mattress, the bed roll can be unwound to stretch and cover the cushions providing bedding and covering.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Turner, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle - Nut. (open access)

Axle - Nut.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Collins, Corties
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bank Register and Remittance Sheet (open access)

Bank Register and Remittance Sheet

Patent for a bank register and remittance sheet. Illustration included.
Date: August 23, 1904
Creator: Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing for Player-Pianos. (open access)

Casing for Player-Pianos.

Patent for "new and useful improvements" (lines 9-10) to the casing for player pianos. Improvements include simplifying numerous operations of the piano to be accomplished by one mechanism. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1915
Creator: Terry, Charles R. & Money, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chassis Connection. (open access)

Chassis Connection.

Patent for improvements on chassis connections for fastening a truck body sill on a chassis without boring a hole or weakening the will, while making the connection easier to make as well as more quickly; includes illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Robinson, Robert F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check Book Cover (open access)

Check Book Cover

Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Templeton, David A.; Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus (open access)

Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus

Patent for improvements in apparatus to combined filler and packer for association with cotton press or baling and operations to receive lint cotton.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter. (open access)

Composition of Matter.

Patent for a briquet fuel formula made primarily from lignite and other derived products, which is cheaper to produce than other formulas.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Lohmann, August Samuel Frederic
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Sheller (open access)

Corn Husker and Sheller

Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Whiting, Louis Rossell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Counting Attachment for Type-Writers (open access)

Counting Attachment for Type-Writers

Patent for a counting attachment for type writers that provides signals when various word counts are reached.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Walker, Jack L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dilator. (open access)

Dilator.

Patent for a dilator meant to enlarge the urethral and other canals of the human body. It is meant of "elastic material and capable of distention, or dilation, under the pressure of air, water, or other fluid introduced and to combine with said dilator means whereby its uniform enlargement under internal pressure shall take place without increase of length, thereby avoiding the objection common to all, rubber and similar structures heretofore, that interior pressure produced elongation at the expense of increase in diameter, while any inequality of strength, or thickness, caused unequal expansion" (lines 13-24).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Parker, Elisha J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elbow-Joint for Artificial Arms (open access)

Elbow-Joint for Artificial Arms

Patent for an elbow joint for artificial arms that can be manipulated by the wearer into any desired position.
Date: July 23, 1918
Creator: Corley, Quentin D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fishing Float (open access)

Fishing Float

Patent for a fishing float. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Jones, Daniel M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Picker. (open access)

Fruit Picker.

Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design consists in "two bags or receptacles [which] are secured upon an endless chain or cord, which passes over a pulley at the top of the pole of the picker and under a pulley near the lower end of the pole, so that the weight of one fruit picked and received in the bag will draw the other bag upward ready to receive another fruit, while the fruit in the descended bag may be removed from the said bag, which will thus be ready to ascend, when another fruit is picked" (lines 24-34).
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Arnold, Hudson H. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Furnace. (open access)

Garbage-Furnace.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable garbage-furnace that can be easily operated, the moisture from the garbage completely evaporates, and the material before and after can be easily handled.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Hull, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Loop (open access)

Harness-Loop

Patent for a harness loop for connecting the bands and trace of a harness. Illustrations included.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Padgitt, Jesse D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Sound-Record Tablets. (open access)

Holder for Sound-Record Tablets.

Patent for a holder for square sound record tablets that are 10 or 12 inches.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Moses, Jacob Bernhard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrogenating Oils, Fats, and Fatty Acids, &c. (open access)

Hydrogenating Oils, Fats, and Fatty Acids, &c.

Patent for improvements made to a hydrogenator of saturated oils, including illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kerosene-Burner. (open access)

Kerosene-Burner.

Patent for kerosene fueled burner for use with cooking or heating, includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1915
Creator: Patton, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Tank (open access)

Knockdown Tank

Patent for a sheet metal tank that is created in sections, able to be dismantled or "knocked down" in sections, and able to be transported in sections, including illustration.
Date: July 23, 1901
Creator: Harry, Hugh W. & Harry, Thomas C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History