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Buckle Fastening
Patent for buckles fastenings. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Chapman, Eleanor Moore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-seed Planter
Patent for a cotton-seed planter that can plant other seeds if necessary, distributing them more evenly, at a lower cost, through an efficiently constructed device.
Date:
February 25, 1901
Creator:
Mills, William Cairill
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators.
Patent for “ore-conveying surface for electrical separators, and particularly to a structure adapted for use with static electricity.” (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1902
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for "...a bicycle-frame so constructed that it is adapted to yield automatically...thereby doing away with the necessity of using pneumatic and puncturable tires..." (lines 10-11, 15-17) including illustrations.
Date:
March 25, 1902
Creator:
Smith, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Makes gas generators more automatic making them less dangerous and less likely to cause an explosion.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Street or Railway Cars.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in brakes for street or railway cars.
Date:
January 25, 1898
Creator:
Hughes, Joel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that compresses "cotton as it is delivered from the gin into convenient shape and size of bundle, for facilitating the transportation thereof" (lines 12-15).
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals Hearing: March 25, 1998
Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals held March 25, 1998 in Dallas, Texas. This hearing includes testimony from judges and an attorney of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on the possible restructuring of the Fifth Circuit.
Date:
March 25, 1998
Creator:
United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-653
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: Whether the National Fashions Association, in supplying models to salesmen, in connection with its operation of the Merchandise Mart in Dallas, Texas, would be required to obtain an employment agency license under Article 5221a-6, Vernon's Civil Statutes, the Texas Private Employment Agency Law.
Date:
June 25, 1959
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-507
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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Highway Commission may temporarily close a portion of the Interstate 35E frontage road in Dallas for the purpose of allowing an intercity "grand prix" race.
Date:
June 25, 1986
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1077
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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Payment by Dallas County of bond premiums for reserve deputy sheriffs and reserve deputy constables.
Date:
October 25, 1977
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Machine.
Patent for for the creation of a mechanism for the cotton chopper machine. The " provision of a cotton chopper machines comprising a wheel supported frame on which is arranged a particular form of revolving and reciprocating hoe mechanism." (lines 12-16)
Date:
November 25, 1913
Creator:
Penn, Joseph R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Crib or Bed.
Patent for improvements in Adjustable Cribs or Beds for children to sit beside the bed of the mother or guardian of the child. Made to be "easily and quickly attachable to or connected with any make of" (lines 17-19) the adult's bed "so that the mattresses of the bed and crib will be perfectly even or flush, without space...between them" (lines 20-22). Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rain-Skirt
Patent for a garment to protect dress skirts and under skirts from all inclement weather conditions. The garment is comprised of two skirts; the outer skirt is made of a water-resistant material and connects at the bottom with the inner skirt which is made of a lighter material.
Date:
July 25, 1911
Creator:
Suddick, Louise F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2012
Proposed budget for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, for fiscal year 2012.
Date:
August 25, 2011
Creator:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2012
Proposed budget for University of Texas at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, during fiscal year 2012.
Date:
August 25, 2011
Creator:
University of Texas at Dallas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Protecting Device.
Patent for combination lock for safes or vaults with added mechanism for dispensing a gas to deter robberies.
Date:
April 25, 1922
Creator:
Bumpass, Leonard E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a new and improved truss. This design consists in "the body-band consisting of a front piece adapted to fit around the abdomen, and a wire attached to each end of said front piece, shaped to conform to the body and spread apart to receive and rest upon the hip-bone, and straps secured to the opposite ends of said wires for fastening the band in place" (lines 43-50).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Davis, Andrew P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel.
Patent for "connecting the wheel shaft with the driving shaft and [...] the provision of a wind wheel having wind collecting faces or pockets extending in vertical planes surrounding a vertical driving shaft as an axis" (lines 25-38), including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Iley, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Water-heaters that can be more manufactured for a lower cost while heating water more quickly and work as a room heater for the bathroom.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “taking seed-cotton from wagons or storehouses through pneumatic tubes and delivering it freed from dust and other extraneous matter to any number of gins. It includes devices for imparting flexibility to the feed-section of the tube for distributing the cotton and for disposing of the surplus when the cotton is supplied faster than it can be ginned.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert Smith; Hardwick, Sauny Warren & Elam, William Erwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer
Patent for a vaporizer. Illustration included.
Date:
April 25, 1905
Creator:
Beaumont, Godfrey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Lock
Patent for a mechanism to be added onto a motor vehicle transmission to prevent unwarranted action on the transmission.
Date:
January 25, 1916
Creator:
McDonald, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History