Tire-Armor. (open access)

Tire-Armor.

Patent for "a flexible protector adapted to be applied to a tire" (lines 8-9).
Date: September 25, 1917
Creator: Oatman, Duke
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage - Shears (open access)

Gage - Shears

Patent for a new and useful improvements in shears. This design "consists of the details of construction and arrangement of the several parts"(line 16-19).
Date: January 25, 1898
Creator: Steen, Emma L. Nevada
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter (open access)

Stalk Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustration included.
Date: September 25, 1906
Creator: Stevenson, William Crook
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Singer (open access)

Hair-Singer

Patent for a hair singer that contains the odor and smoke produced by singed hair.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Eldridge, Edward H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-820 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-820

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: Can the District Clerk of Nueces County charge a fee to another county for the furnishing of certified copies of papers in criminal cases which have been tried in Nueces County, such instruments to be used in a trial in the requesting county?
Date: March 25, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop. (open access)

Blind Stop.

Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design consists "[i]n blind-stops, the rod, consisting of two parts connected by a thin piece of metal, in combination with a blind provided with a median open-slotted tapering screw and thumb-nut" (lines 49-53).
Date: December 25, 1888
Creator: Warren, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History