Cooling Device for Lard-Compounding Machines (open access)

Cooling Device for Lard-Compounding Machines

Patent for a machine that spreads melted lard into thin sheets and freezes it. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Wright, Robert L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Controlled Vending Machine

Patent for coin controlled vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Kreter, Otto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. "This invention is a cattle guard having transverse drainage conduits with overhanging plates and so proportioned that the foot of an animal will be projected into the conduit" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Anderson, Anders Peder
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-078 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-078

Letter opinion 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether a justice of peace may serve as a Bexar County Juvenile law master(ID# 31206)
Date: July 26, 1996
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-262 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-262

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an area of northeastern Bexar County may be disannexed from the Alamo Community College district (RQ-0202-JC).
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-382 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-382

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether it would be constitutionally and statutorily sound for Bexar County Hospital District to admit patients who are neither needy nor indigent, and who are fully able to pay for any medical care rendered by the Hospital District.
Date: January 26, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-240 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-240

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: Authority of Bexar County to pay the City of San Antonio costs of acquiring rights-of-way under the facts submitted.
Date: August 26, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-106 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-106

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Commissioners' Court of Bexar County to supervise and control a county juvenile detention home for boys.
Date: March 26, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Lowe's Development Site, San Antonio, Texas (open access)

An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Lowe's Development Site, San Antonio, Texas

An archaeological survey report of the site of a proposed Lowe's in San Antonio, Texas, performed to determine whether any historic resources were located on the proposed construction sites.
Date: September 26, 2005
Creator: Tood, Jesse & Skinner, S. Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shade-Bracket (open access)

Shade-Bracket

Patent for shade-brackets which connects window shades or blinds to a wall or ceiling
Date: August 26, 1919
Creator: Overman, Benjamin Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Support (open access)

Canopy-Support

Patent for canopy support for the bed where the user can attach mosquito netting. The canopy support can be removed and folded when not in use, and is designed to offer simple and efficient support.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Carroll, Houston M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner (open access)

Burner

Patent for an oil burner, in combination with a gas generating portion of a burner pipe below and provided by a upwardly directed discharge opening, a drip pan secured in place and extending horizontally below said burning pipe.
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel with no extra small parts, a tightener that tightens the whole wheel and is easily reached, and constructed in such a manner that it may be easily taken apart and put back together for repair purposes.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Hadley, William Swain
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator (open access)

Ventilator

Patent for low cost, improved ventilators for Pullman and passenger cars and buildings.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Hedges, Robert S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration. (open access)

Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration.

Patent for a new and improved method of working volatile hydrates for refrigeration. This invention "consists in the continuous circulation through a chamber to be refrigerated of aqueous solution of volatile matter previously cooled by the expansive elimination therefrom of a portion of said volatile matter" (lines 64-68).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Rose, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tooth (open access)

Tooth

Patent for an artificial tooth. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Stallman, George E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace - Fastener (open access)

Trace - Fastener

Patent for improved spring activated trace fastener.
Date: June 26, 1900
Creator: Woods, Washington Green Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press. (open access)

Press.

Patent for a new and improved press for " holding down sauer-kraut, pickles, and other articles in barrels, tubs, or like receptacles" (line 9 -10).
Date: September 26, 1899
Creator: Cross, George Francis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mixer (open access)

Mixer

Patent for an improved mixer for "use in connection with internal combustion engines" (lines 9-10). The invention is designed to simplify and increase the engine's efficiency while also making construction more affordable.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Warren, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moving-Picture Machine. (open access)

Moving-Picture Machine.

Patent for an improved machine to play films (moving-pictures), synchronizing both sound and picture in a single machine. Division of another patent by the same inventor (Serial No. 765,959) for a sound record film, and is intended to be used in conjunction with said patent.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like. (open access)

Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like.

Patent for improvements in the automobile driving mechanism thorough changes in the transmission and transmission gearing.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Allan, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Railroad Appliance (open access)

Safety Railroad Appliance

Patent for a railroad safety appliance, which "may be readily installed in connection with the air brake system of a train and be automatically operated to bleed the air line and effect the applying of the brakes in the event of displacement of the brake beam and thereby avoid possible displacement of the car."
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Kush, John, Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shipping Unit (open access)

Shipping Unit

Patent for "a shipping unit or carrier for the transportation of merchandise as freight, express, or baggage" (lines 8-10).
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Terry, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History