Bed Bottom Spring. (open access)

Bed Bottom Spring.

Patent for new and improved bed springs. Due to this design's construction, "in addition to the support furnished by the top spirals, the platform furnishes a broad level bearing for the mattress and prevents sagging between the springs or injury to the mattress itself. Also, the parallels, being springs in themselves, additional comfort and elasticity are added to the bed, and the springs themselves are more readily adapted to the varying width of the slats of different beds" (lines 25-34).
Date: January 17, 1882
Creator: Jarrett, Joshua V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Legal effects of groundwater conservation district election held in Bosque, Comanche, and Erath counties (RQ-0557-JC)
Date: December 17, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hoe-Handles. (open access)

Improvement in Hoe-Handles.

Patent for the improvement of hoe-handle tightening devices, including illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Littleton, W. R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c. (open access)

Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c.

Patent for improvements in grain conveyers by using a slotted platform with parallel walls on the sides, a conveyer-block having arms and friction-rollers that is moved by an endless chain in between the walls, a lever keyed on a shaft and two gears in constant mesh with each other; all these parts working together to creating a mechanism that drives the conveyers in either direction to accomplish the binding of the grains. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1891
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History