Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-73 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-73

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Maximum salary of District Clerk and County Treasurer of Karnes County, Texas.
Date: March 6, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for an improved model of wrench, designed to work upon the bore of tubes, thimbles, and other forms of pipes. This invention improves on the construction of the wrench, allowing it to be inserted in the end of a tube, and when rotated, be effectively engaged with the tube to turn the same.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Brown, Charley S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for improving baling presses by reconstructing the press to make it more efficient and simple. Also, this improvement allows the plunger to automatically return after the press stroke is finished.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: White, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foot Piece for Cultivators. (open access)

Foot Piece for Cultivators.

Patent for foot pieces of "simple and improved construction whereby the cultivator blade will be held in ground engaging position resiliently with sufficient force to maintain it properly in position in varying conditions of the soil" (lines 10-15). The foot pieces allow for variation in the force with which the blade is maintained in ground, the blade being "quickly and conveniently changed" (lines 24-25).
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Myers, Jim H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safe (open access)

Safe

Patent for a safe. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Smith, Virgil A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History