Apparatus for Separating Cotton from its Seed (open access)

Apparatus for Separating Cotton from its Seed

Patent for an apparatus for separating cotton from its seed that uses heat and air to separate the cotton.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Myers, Absalom G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots. (open access)

Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots.

Patent for "attachment for coffee or tea pots or other receptacles" (lines 5-7) designed to materially improve the construction of the pot or urn, whereby the same will be simple and effective and the process of treating the coffee or tea by the action of the boiling water or steam materially enhanced.
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Darden, George Albion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Barnett, James Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Box for Locomotives. (open access)

Axle Box for Locomotives.

Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design "has relation to self-adjusting wedges for axle or driving boxes for locomotives, and has for its objects to produce a wedge that is controlled by a spring, which can be readily and easily adjusted for removing the pounding and lost motion between the axle-box and pedestal" (lines 11-17).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Carlson, Frank August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1150 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1150

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: Whether the Commissioners Court of Dallas County has the authority to acquire a lien on real estate owned by persons whom the Dallas County Department of Public Welfare has determined to be paupers under the standards approved by the Commissioners Court.
Date: September 21, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bread-Knife. (open access)

Bread-Knife.

Patent for bread knives that consists of a plurality of knives spaced apart to cut the slices of uniform width.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Roberts, Isaac F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIR REGULATING ATTACHMENT (open access)

AIR REGULATING ATTACHMENT

Patent for an Air Regulating Attachment. This new invention for an air regulating attachment builds upon previous advancements to create an inexpensive air regulating attachment system, which will in turn be used to regulate engine carburetors (Oscar Kiessing).
Date: April 21, 1919
Creator: Kiessig, Oscar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2015 (open access)

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2015

Proposed budget for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, for fiscal year 2015.
Date: August 21, 2014
Creator: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2014 (open access)

University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2014

Approved budget for University of Texas at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: August 21, 2013
Creator: University of Texas at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener or Clasp (open access)

Collar Fastener or Clasp

Patent for a collar fastener "which will hold the flaps of a collar properly spaced from each other and insure a secure gripping of the flaps to avoid untidy appearance of the collar" (lines 14-17). Includes illustrations.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Orson, Kelly N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener or Clasp (open access)

Collar Fastener or Clasp

Patent for a fastener to hold the flaps of a collar securely.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Kelly, Orson N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Camp-Cooker. (open access)

Camp-Cooker.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a form of camp cooker, or camp stove and particularly appertains to a folding and demountable cooker" (lines 8-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Hanson, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener or Clasp. (open access)

Collar Fastener or Clasp.

Patent for a collar fastener that will grip the flaps of a collar and maintain the curvature of the collar in a neat manner.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Kelly, Orson N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener or Clasp. (open access)

Collar Fastener or Clasp.

Patent for a collar fastener that grips the opposite edges of a soft fabric collar in a neat and presentable manner.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Kelly, Orson N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attaching-Ring. (open access)

Attaching-Ring.

Patent for an attaching ring to connect a boiler to a water heater jacket that is described in pending application Serial No. 304,041.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Fowles, Alfred T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2014 (open access)

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2014

Operating budget containing information on the proposed appropriations and expenditures of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for fiscal year 2014.
Date: August 21, 2013
Creator: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2015 (open access)

University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2015

Proposed budget for University of Texas at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, during fiscal year 2015.
Date: August 21, 2014
Creator: University of Texas at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Confection. (open access)

Confection.

Patent for confections with an edible packaging. These confections come in the form of a spherically shaped casing, simulating a baseball, which have been secured together and contain an edible filling.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Cressey, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traffic Signal System (open access)

Traffic Signal System

Patent for a Traffic Signal System for universal traffic management, i.e. automobiles, pedestrians, railway, street car, etc. The system has a warning signal to indicate danger and designate a safety zone. This system provides an audible as well as visual signal.
Date: July 21, 1921
Creator: Wetter, R.E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leather-Press (open access)

Leather-Press

Patent for device which can clamp down leather strips while they are being flexed.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Shaw, Fred H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Screen Holder. (open access)

Window Screen Holder.

Patent for a new and improved window-screen holder. This design "consists in the combination, with a window-frame and a window-screen held in the same, of wires secured on the casing of the frame and having bends near their upper ends, and of hook-eyes held on the sides of the screen-frame and surrounding the wires. The invention also consists in a plate pivoted to the under side of the bottom rail of the screen-frame for covering a recess formed in the under edge and inner side of the said rail or piece" (lines 13-23).
Date: April 21, 1885
Creator: Barlow, Henry C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Level. (open access)

Level.

Patent for a level that holds vials in place securely.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Smith, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a valve. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Kinnison, Hallah C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inflatable Tire. (open access)

Inflatable Tire.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in inflatable tires, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 21, 1898
Creator: Heelan, Lawrence W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History