Engineering Study of the Rodessa Oil Field in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas (open access)

Engineering Study of the Rodessa Oil Field in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over drilling operations in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Results of the operations are discussed. This report includes maps, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: August 1943
Creator: Hill, Harry Blackburn & Guthrie, R. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Box-Car-Door Fastener (open access)

Box-Car-Door Fastener

Patent for a box car door fastener.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Hooton, Pinkie D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in animal traps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1899
Creator: Griffin, Walter R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a wire clothes pin that is attached to the clothesline and is easily opened or closed to attach or remove clothes.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Burleson, Pleasant Wright
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Operating Mechanism. (open access)

Churn-Operating Mechanism.

Patent for a churn operating mechanism, which can be attached to a wall.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Wiley, Alvin Herbert; Lathem, Diah Walter & Lathem, Mariand Wiendfield
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap (open access)

Animal Trap

Patent for an animal trap, particularly desgned for rodents and birds, which is able to trap animals without having to be manually reset each time. Illustrations included.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Barron, Nathan J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Wiley, Alvin Herbert & Banger, John Edward Armenious
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Rail. (open access)

Compound Rail.

Patent for a compound rail that's joints are as strong as the rest of the rail and prevent jolting when a train passes over the joint.
Date: October 27, 1908
Creator: Cromer, Thomas S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: April 6, 1909
Creator: Everett, Edgar B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling. (open access)

Car - Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1898
Creator: Oden, Joshua K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in a lever pivoted in the front of the top of the draw-head and provided at its outer end with an aperture, through which the coupling-pin is passed into the aperture in the draw-head, below which lever another lever is pivoted, hanging vertically across the front-opening of the draw-head, and provided at the upper part of its inner edge with a projection, so that when the coupling-link pushes the lower lever inward the upper lever and the pin are raised, and drop as soon as the link has passed into the draw-head" (lines 10-21).
Date: January 31, 1882
Creator: Griffin, James Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to a car-coupling constructed with draw-heads having stationary hooks and recesses in their sides, and provided with pivoted hooks held in place by springs, and provided with a trip plate and lever, and with chains and a lever, whereby the cars will couple themselves when run together, can be readily uncoupled, will uncouple themselves when thrown from the track, and can be prevented from coupling when run together" (lines 23-32).
Date: May 5, 1885
Creator: Griffin, James Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design's "objects are, first, to couple cars of various altitudes; second, to couple the cars automatically; third, to uncouple from the top or side of the car; [and] fourth, to dispense with pins" (lines 16-20). It consists in a "draw-head [that] is provided with an elastic cover having a link-lifting arm secured thereto, a lever for oscillating said cover, performing the duplex function of disengaging the link and permitting its egress, a sloping projection from the base of said draw-head engaging the link on contact, and the bent link" (lines 51-58).
Date: November 11, 1890
Creator: Burns, John Calvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a device by which cotton can be easily, quickly and accurately chopped, "leaving cotton stands the distance apart for future cultivation and to insure the most rapid and satisfactory growth," (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Henderson, Neely Trimmier & Smith, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm. (open access)

Burglar Alarm.

Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design "consists in the combination of the lock-frame with a pivoted plate which is connected to it at one end, and which plate carries the nipple to receive the catch, and is provided with sharp points to catch in the jamb of the door, with a sidewise-moving trigger, which is operated by the door, and a set-screw for securing the lock-plate in position upon the door" (lines 13-21).
Date: June 26, 1883
Creator: Wright, William Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton, Corn,and Pea Planter and Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Combined Cotton, Corn,and Pea Planter and Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Combined Mowers and Seed Planter"(lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1883
Creator: Nelson, John B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "consists in the combination of a front pair of scraping-wings attached to a central furrow-opener, a revolving biconical wheel for pressing open the furrow and operating a toothed or spiked seed stirring and distributing shaft, and a rear covering-roller having a concave periphery" (lines 18-24).
Date: April 5, 1881
Creator: Crow, John Alexander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupler. (open access)

Car Coupler.

Patent for a new and improver coupler for railroad cars. This design "consists, first, in a transversely-arranged bar supported by suitable hangers secured to the end of the car a suitable distance above the draw-bar, each end of said transverse bar being provided with hand-wheels having a notch on their outer periphery, with which engage weighed pawls suitably pivoted to the side of the car; secondly, in an arm extending from said transverse bar for supporting the link" (lines 22-31).
Date: July 12, 1881
Creator: Farnam, Stephen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie. (open access)

Bale Tie.

Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design is of a metal band with several slots, so that the accompanying metal button can pass through any two overlapping slots, securing the bale within the band.
Date: July 19, 1881
Creator: Griffin, James Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1500, Chapter 868 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1500, Chapter 868

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the composition of the Cass County Juvenile Board.
Date: 2007-05/2007-06
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 524, Chapter 16 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 524, Chapter 16

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of a county court at law in Cass County.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-419 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-419

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 County Court of Cass County has jurisdiction of eminent domain matters.
Date: April 12, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6783 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6783

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Has the County Court of Cass County authority to require the State Registrar to issue a certified copy of a birth or death certificate wherein a child or an adult is stated to be illegitimate.
Date: August 15, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Marion and Cass Counties, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Marion and Cass Counties, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Marion and Cass Counties, Texas.
Date: 2009
Creator: Griffith, Kirby
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History