Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder. (open access)

Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: Bellah, William Newton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Rack. (open access)

Cloth Rack.

Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, facilitates the unrolling of the cloth" (lines 21-32).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Palmer, William Washington
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridge. (open access)

Bridge.

Patent for "improvements in bridges of that class which are used for crossing streams or country roads, and for such other purposes as a bridge may be desired" (lines 15-18), with instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 16, 1887
Creator: Mitchell, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Iron Saddle-Tree Forks (open access)

Improvement in Iron Saddle-Tree Forks

Patent for an improvement in iron saddle-tree forks that are cheaper to construct as well as light and durable. Includes illustration and description.
Date: August 26, 1879
Creator: Wood, John McLane & Bellah, William Newton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Conveyer for Unloading Cotton. (open access)

Pneumatic Conveyer for Unloading Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved pneumatic conveyer. This design "relates to improvements in pneumatic conveyers of that class or style adapted for unloading cotton from a wagon and depositing it on the gin-stand or other place; and the object is to provide a machine whereby cotton may be readily, conveniently, and expeditiously taken from the wagon or other vehicle or dumping-platform and carried or conveyed through a pneumatic tube and deposited on the gin-stand or similar floor for ginning" (lines 9-19).
Date: August 23, 1892
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch (open access)

Railway-Switch

Patent for "automatic switches wherein the operative devices are under the control of the engineer, brake-man, or other authorized person on the train or a portion thereof" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Robberson, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3803 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3803

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the Stoneburg School District tax the city of Bowie and the persons that own club houses surrounding the lake belonging to the city of Bowie?
Date: August 21, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel (open access)

Wheel

Patent for a wheel. Illustration included.
Date: August 30, 1904
Creator: White, James Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor and Steam Burner (open access)

Vapor and Steam Burner

Patent for a vapor and steam burner. Illustrations included.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Stafford, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Dasher Churn. (open access)

Double-Dasher Churn.

Patent for a double dasher churn with adjustable speed dashers.
Date: August 30, 1910
Creator: Melton, Ode E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History