Combined Minnow Bucket and Trap. (open access)

Combined Minnow Bucket and Trap.

Patent for a combined minnow bucket and trap that overcomes past disadvantages, is simple in constructions, inexpensive to manufacture and reliable.
Date: March 27, 1906
Creator: Petmecky, Fred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster. (open access)

Caster.

Patent for a new and improved insect-killing furniture-caster. This design "consists in a cup shaped shell having a bowl or liquid-receptacle at its lower edge and a filling orifice or passage extending through the shell and leading to the bottom of the liquid-receptacle. A socket or inwardly-projecting tube at the top of the shell encircles the shank of the caster and rests upon a shoulder on said shank, which serves to hold the insect guard in position" (lines 17-25).
Date: June 27, 1882
Creator: Tumey, Charles Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Gun Barrels. (open access)

Cleaner for Gun Barrels.

Patent for a new and improved cleaner for gun barrels. This design "consists of a brush or cleaner formed in the main of spring metal, (preferably of brass,) and provided with bristles beveled at their free ends, so set in suitable holding parts as that when unconfined said bristles will move outward from a common axis and bear against the inner surface of a gun barrel when placed within the same" (lines 13-20).
Date: November 27, 1883
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-668 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-668

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; Authority of Wilbarger County Hospital District to pay for the land acquired for the establishment and operation of a community center for mental health and mental retardation services, out of bond proceeds.
Date: April 27, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-669 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-669

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 the 2nd offense of DWI (a felony) is an offense consisting of degrees as provided on Articles 37.08 and 37.09 of the 1966 Code of Criminal Procedure and related questions.
Date: April 27, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-731 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-731

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; Taxability for ad valorem tax purposes of property owned by Radio Church of God and Ambassador College, part of which is used by Imperial School.
Date: July 27, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-287 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-287

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 County Mutual Insurance Companies organized under Chapter 17 of the Texas Insurance Code and qualified to write casualty lines for state wide operation may write all lines of automobile insurance on all motor vehicles in addition to those enumerated in Art. 17.01, Texas Insurance Code.
Date: July 27, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-6 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-6

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether release of census counts subject to possible adjustment constitutes publication of the United States decennial census for purposes of article III, section 28, of the Texas Constitution and related questions (RQ-24)
Date: February 27, 1991
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-7 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-7

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Parker County Committee on Aging is a governmental body under the Open Meetings Act, article 6252-17, V.T.C.S. (RQ-6)
Date: February 27, 1991
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the thirty-second day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: March 27, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0302 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0302

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request for information relating to complaints filed by certain individuals.
Date: January 27, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Signal (open access)

Automobile Signal

Patent for a signal of the nature indicated including a signal arm controlled in novel manner and movable from one position to another, the signal arm being inoperative in one position, and when moved to the other position being visible to other vehicles and pedestrians both in front and in rear, to warn them of the intention of the operator driver to turn.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Deats, O.G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Sign. (open access)

Electric Sign.

Patent for an electric lighted sign, as might be displayed in the window of a business. The sign consists of a box with an inner reflective coating, an interior light source (bulb), and front-facing circular cutouts with translucent coverings, the latter arranged to depict the sign text.
Date: December 27, 1921
Creator: Daughdrill, Kenneth W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Burner (open access)

Vapor Burner

Patent for vapor burner. Illustration included.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Trusses. (open access)

Improvement in Trusses.

Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
Date: September 27, 1870
Creator: Baker, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Barium Chlorate (open access)

Process of Producing Barium Chlorate

Patent for a new process of making substantially pure barium chlorate that will be more expeditious and less costly to carry out than those prior.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Schoch, Eugene P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Silo Chute (open access)

Silo Chute

Patent for discharging chute on a silo.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Frnaklin, Edward A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gin. (open access)

Saw-Gin.

Patent for improvements in cotton-gins by having two compartments, one above the other. “The upper roll-box being especially adapted to raw cotton and the lower one to half-ginned cotton as the lint and seeds are only partially separated in one roll-box and are then delivered into another, where the operation is completed.” (Lines 24-29) This operation used less time to separate the seed and lint. Illustration is included.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Ammonium Ichthyol Sulfonate. (open access)

Process of Making Ammonium Ichthyol Sulfonate.

Patent for "improvment in the process of making ichthyol sulfonate" (lines 10-13).
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: McLaughlin, Andrew Cyrus
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History