Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to be adjustable horizontally to operate on crooked rows. Illustrations included.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Burton, George W.; Warwick, Vesper V. & Patton, Deacon O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved car coupling that consists of a hollow drawhead with a pivoting knuckle, a hook on one side of the knuckle, a catch on the other side of the knuckle, a latch pivoted in the drawhead that engages the catch, a spring that presses the latch against the knuckle, a rod attached to the latch, a double crank attached to the rod, hand rods and cranks on either side of the car, and a buffer above the drawbar.
Date: November 28, 1893
Creator: Darrow, Nicholas & Roosevelt, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling which is an improvement on a patent (No. 520,380) previously granted to the inventor. It has two jaws that are used with a combination of other parts to couple cars.
Date: May 28, 1895
Creator: Roosevelt, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Truck Bolster. (open access)

Car-Truck Bolster.

Patent for a car-truck bolster "made of cast steel or malleable iron, cast in one piece, and provided with a plurality of corrugations running longitudinally or in an approximately longitudinal direction along the girders which form the sides of the said bolster" (lines 15-20).
Date: May 28, 1895
Creator: Maher, John N. & Wheless, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-791 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-791

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; Application of Section 19 of Article 3271a, Vernon's Civil Statutes, to public school plant planning and construction and related questions.
Date: December 28, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-792 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-792

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 clarificppation; Whether a county employee may recieve pay for working as an election clerk on holiday, and also recieve his regular salary for that day; and a related question.
Date: December 28, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-303 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-303

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 is would be constitutional for the Legislature to provide that districts created under Article 7880-1 through 7880-147zl could authorize terms of office for the members of the governing bodies of the disctricts for more than two years.
Date: August 28, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1514 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1514

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: Legality of expending funds of Travis County for the purpose of widening and improving the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin.
Date: August 28, 1952
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-845 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-845

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an independent ambulance service employed by Travis County to provide ambulance service in Travis County may use the public streets of the City of Austin without securing a franchise from the City.
Date: April 28, 1971
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-8 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-8

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Duty of Teacher Retirement System to compute the adjusted statewide average maintenance and operations tax rate pursuant to section 825.405(h) of the Government Code (RQ-2162)
Date: February 28, 1991
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

SH 71 Improvements Exhibit

Map depicting SH 71 from FM 2322 / Pedernales River to Silvermine Drive with existing and proposed configurations divided by section including anticipated construction start date.
Date: February 28, 2008
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Chimney Attachment. (open access)

Lamp Chimney Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for oil-lamp chimneys. This design is for a metal piece to be inserted into the top of the glass chimney, resting along the chimney's brim. The piece has an elbow that connects the inserted part to an angled and tapered part, which, when appropriately turned, prevents the wind from extinguishing the lamp's flame.
Date: November 28, 1882
Creator: Illingworth, James O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch. (open access)

Clutch.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the necessity of providing outside collars" (lines 17-27).
Date: April 28, 1896
Creator: Carleton, Ernest WIlliam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer (open access)

Fertilizer

Patent for fertilizer.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Wright, Edward Fondi
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flavoring Compound (open access)

Flavoring Compound

Patent for an improved flavoring compound "especially adapted for flavoring meats and food products, soups, stews, etc., and consists in combining Mexican pepper, spices of cuminum and origanum, salt, garlic, tallow or suet." (Lines 10-14)
Date: January 28, 1908
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter. (open access)

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination [of] a lever, shaft, bars, and ring-plate on a wheel, [and] of the four fixed cams and intermediate detachable cams" (lines 66-69).
Date: June 28, 1881
Creator: Gallway, Richard James.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Awl. (open access)

Sewing-Awl.

Patent for an improvement upon the sewing awl that is designed to work well with leather workers. The sewing awl is made to be "adaptable to work with a break or tension device, capable of restraining a thread holding spool against free rotation to prevent excessive undesirable slack or looseness of the thread" (lines 15-19) as illustrated and described.
Date: November 28, 1911
Creator: Alten, George Philip
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental or Surgical Chair. (open access)

Dental or Surgical Chair.

Patent for a dental or surgical chair that is adjustable, light and portable. The chair can be adjusted "without the employment of a raising device using fluid or any sub-basal mechanism" (lines 57-59), and can be adjusted with little effort. The chair's decent can be monitored. It can be easily assembled and disassembled for transport.
Date: August 28, 1894
Creator: Stiles, Edmund Pease
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History