Carling-Socket for Car-Frames. (open access)

Carling-Socket for Car-Frames.

Patent for improvements to "carlings for the roofs of cars, such as used for transporting live or dead freight," (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1891
Creator: Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for "a dasher that the force required to operate it may be varied and the time necessary to churn the butter be shortened as the force operating the dasher is increased." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1895
Creator: Hudson, Charles H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrecking-Frog. (open access)

Wrecking-Frog.

Patent for "an improved frog for use in placing derailed cars or locomotives upon the rails, exceedingly simple and durable in construction, and formed substantially in one piece - that is, not in sections - and having improved means to lock the frog to the rail." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1891
Creator: Wilmore, William Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life Boat. (open access)

Life Boat.

Patent for a new and improved life boat. This design "consists in providing a steam-launch with a float on each side, secured by suitable strong braces thereto, and to provide said floats with a hand-rail, so that persons can hold onto said rails, and are prevented from being washed off" (lines 17-22).
Date: March 13, 1883
Creator: Dwyer, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Case Bow (open access)

Watch-Case Bow

Patent for improvements in fastenings for bows of watch-cases.
Date: March 19, 1889
Creator: Cooper, Jonathan H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester. (open access)

Spark-Arrester.

Patent for a simple and durable spark arrester for locomotives that has a minimum number of parts and "which will remove arrested sparks to the fire box of the locomotive and will prevent live sparks being thrown out by the locomotive and thereby endanger property adjoining the railroad tracks" (lines 19-23).
Date: March 20, 1894
Creator: O'Donnell, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Pad. (open access)

Harness-Pad.

Patent for "an improved fastening for harness pads or housings which is equally adapted for sweat-pads for horse-collars." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Powell, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1029 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1029

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, under the mandatory provisions of the Harrison County Road Law, the Commissioners' Court of Harrison County, Texas, is required to employ and have in its constant employ a "registered professional" civil engineer?
Date: March 29, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-232 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-232

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 Texas Education Agency should, in determining the economic index and in calculating the amount of local funds to be charged to each school district in Harrison County, remove from the total “value added by manufacture” the value of products manufactured on federally-owned military reservations in Harrison County.
Date: March 30, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Door (open access)

Car Door

Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing for Doors and Like Closures. (open access)

Packing for Doors and Like Closures.

Patent for new packing for closures for air-tight and temperature-regulating containers (i.e. refrigerators), with illustrations included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Carter, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for the improvement and simplification of disk plows. It consists of improvements to interconnection of beam, plow, wheels and axle in their positioning and securing to allow for adjustments of these parts; also includes scrapers for plow-disks. Illustrations of a possible implementation are included.
Date: March 18, 1902
Creator: Schofield, James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Monkey-Wrench. (open access)

Monkey-Wrench.

Patent for a wrench, which can be used as a S wrench or a monkey wrench and is durable.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Post, Parley C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Angle Cock Device (open access)

Angle Cock Device

Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Ellwood, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Measuring and Transfer Tank Pump (open access)

Combination Measuring and Transfer Tank Pump

Patent for a combination measure and transfer tank pump to be used for the transferring of oil from one container to another.
Date: March 18, 1919
Creator: Kirkwood, A. L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History