Caster. (open access)

Caster.

Patent for a new and useful caster to be "applied to light and heavy furniture" (line 13-14).
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Gluck, Solomon
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Attachment. (open access)

Buggy-Top Attachment.

Patent for a new and useful buggy top attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1899
Creator: Peikert, Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1097 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1097

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: Jurisdiction of the County Court and County Court at Law of Bell County
Date: March 13, 1972
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "[t]he improved valve comprising the casing, having a horizontal passage reduced at its central point . . . and a vertical bore intersecting said reduced portion above the point of intersection to its lower end and being screw-threaded its entire length, a stem having a tapered lower portion, the entire stem being screw-threaded to engage the threads in the bore, and a plug removably inserted in the lower end of the bore" (lines 1-11).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Forniraseo, Domenico
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for "improvements in the water-wheel and in the, mechanism for imparting motion thereto, whereby the washing-liquid is made to flow upward between the sides of an outer and inner pan and downward upon the articles to be washed, which are inclosed in the said inner pan, as will be now described and claimed, and is adapted to wash any articles that may be placed within the said inner pan" (lines 17-26).
Date: May 13, 1890
Creator: McCausland, William, I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack. (open access)

Lifting-Jack.

Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date: August 13, 1895
Creator: Hough, William S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Washing Machine (open access)

Clothes Washing Machine

Patent for improvements to a washing machine.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Perry, Robert J. S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker (open access)

Cotton Picker

Patent for machines that utilizes a plethora of needles to harvest cotton.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Johnson, Billie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photograph-Holder. (open access)

Photograph-Holder.

Patent for a photograph holder made from one piece of wire twisted into hooks for the edge of the photo to be put into, with a bar to support the back of the photo in an upright position.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Stevens, William Herbert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Foot-Warmer (open access)

Electric Foot-Warmer

Patent for a device that uses electricity to provide warmth to a person's feet as well as any other parts of the body. It may be used in and out of a bed, and it may be used as "a light reflector for treating certain diseases by strong rays of light concentrated and applied directly to the body" (lines 17-20).
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Ballard, Silas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Drill Attachment. (open access)

Dental Drill Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved dental-drill attachment. This design consists in "the combination, with the upper pulley and the supporting pully-frame of a drill, of a rod having hinged to its upper end the clip, having the set-screw, and having at its lower end the frame, having the wheel and the side-spools journaled within it" (lines 25-31).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler & Stansell, Jesse Paine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Joyce, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide a device to enable the shovels of the cultivator to yield when they strike an immovable object—such as a stone or stump—and thereby prevent the cultivator-shovels from being broken, and more especially in time-saving in readjusting the shovel for plowing" (lines 14-20).
Date: April 13, 1886
Creator: Eubanks, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History