Bedstead (open access)

Bedstead

Patent for a bedstead. Illustration included.
Date: October 31, 1905
Creator: Davis, Augustus H.; Hummel, George F. & Gray, J. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sediment Transport Modeling of Channel Scale Geomorphic Processes (open access)

Sediment Transport Modeling of Channel Scale Geomorphic Processes

This report investigated the use of two-dimensional (2D) modeling strategy to predict channel adjustment in the lower San Antonio River in response to a range of flood magnitudes.
Date: July 31, 2012
Creator: Haschenburger, Judith K.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Horse-Detacher and Brake. (open access)

Combined Horse-Detacher and Brake.

Patent for a simple and durable combined horse-detacher and brake that stops the car after releasing the animal. This patent simplifies a previous patent application (Serial No. 565,581). Both the horse-detacher and brake are activated at the same time by pulling one lever. The brake sits under the car and can hardly be seen.
Date: March 31, 1896
Creator: Friedlander, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6728 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6728

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether S. B. 246 or H. B. 849, Acts 49th Legislature, Regular Session, 1945, applies to Bexar County.
Date: January 31, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Driving Mechanism. (open access)

Automobile Driving Mechanism.

Patent for a driving mechanism for an automobile to dispense with the usual form of transmission gearing and differential, to substitute mechanisms power devices through the medium of a suitable liquid [preferably oil], maintained at a predetermined volume, and to provide a noiseless operating mechanism.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Allan, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: March 1984 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: March 1984

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for March 1984.
Date: March 31, 1984
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: October 1982 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: October 1982

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
Date: October 31, 1982
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0323 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0323

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to whether the San Antonio Housing Authority must release information from seventeen different categories in a request it considers to broad and the requester has refused to narrow.
Date: January 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Project Summary: Safety Impact of Texas Travel Information Centers (open access)

Project Summary: Safety Impact of Texas Travel Information Centers

Summary sheet describing research performed by the University of Texas at San Antonio regarding safety impact of Texas travel information centers.
Date: 2014-10-31~
Creator: University of Texas at San Antonio
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: July 1982 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: July 1982

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for July 1982.
Date: July 31, 1982
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1990 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1990

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities. This set of reports includes information about permits and the Board of Adjustment & Historic Preservation for January 1990.
Date: January 31, 1990
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1981 (open access)

San Antonio Monthly Reports: January 1981

Monthly reports documenting San Antonio municipal board activities and city permitting for January 1981.
Date: January 31, 1981
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio Health Facilities Development Corporation Financial Report: June 7, 1982 to September 30, 1983 (open access)

San Antonio Health Facilities Development Corporation Financial Report: June 7, 1982 to September 30, 1983

Financial report of the San Antonio Health Facilities Development Corporation for its initial fiscal period from June 7, 1982 through September 30, 1983.
Date: October 31, 1983
Creator: San Antonio (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Tire. (open access)

Pneumatic Tire.

Patent for improved pneumatic tires for motor vehicles that will prevent deflation when punctured.
Date: May 31, 1921
Creator: Williams, Harry S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuse carrier. (open access)

Fuse carrier.

Patent for a fuse "holder which carries a number of fuses, capable of being brought into proper position to provide a fresh fuse in the event of the burning or blowing out of one of the fuses" (lines 9-13). The carrier inside the holder is removable (line 15); as carried in this holder, the fuses are "held under strong tension," with a mechanism allowing easy retrieval of a "fresh fuse" if necessary (line 18).
Date: January 31, 1922
Creator: Burton, Frank M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireless Break-Key (open access)

Wireless Break-Key

Patent for a wireless break key that allows a station to just have one aerial line and prevents burn out of the machinery and injury to operators while transmitting messages faster than other wireless devices.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Mobley, Grier P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking-Bolt for Guards to Openings. (open access)

Locking-Bolt for Guards to Openings.

Patent for a locking mechanism for windows, which cannot be unlocked from the outside.
Date: March 31, 1908
Creator: McNeil, Clarence W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Line-Holder and Cylindrical Type-Chase (open access)

Line-Holder and Cylindrical Type-Chase

Patent for a "combined line holder and cylindrical type chase" (p. 1, lines 10-11) to allow typesetting by unskilled workers.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Line Holder and Type Chase (open access)

Line Holder and Type Chase

Patent for a line-holder and type-chase, intended to make possible rapid and easy setting of type by unskilled people.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel (open access)

Vehicle Wheel

Patent for improved wheel that utilizes spring components in order to disperse the weight of the vehicle evenly.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Allan, William N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for nut locks that "as for its object to provide simple means for locking the nut against accidental displacement, at the same time allowing it to be removed by the proper application of force, and, furthermore, to permit the permanent locking of the nut at a pre-determined point." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Millen, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flash-Light System. (open access)

Flash-Light System.

Patent for new and useful flash light system where the "plurality of lights or series of lights are alternately cut into and then out of the lighting-circuit, so there are a series of flashes " (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Wright, Martin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice Machine. (open access)

Ice Machine.

Patent for a new and improved ice machine. This design consists in "[a]n oil-trap for compression ice-machines, consisting of cylinders provided with inclined diaphragms, and having extensions provided with water-chambers and pipes extending down through the same" (lines 96-100). Said pipes are "to communicate with the cylinders, one of said pipes communicating with the extension of one of the cylinders and the other pipe leading from the ammonia-pump, said cylinders having a suitable arrangement of pipes and valves" (lines 1-6).
Date: August 31, 1886
Creator: Diener, Frederic
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw. (open access)

Saw.

Patent for a saw with a blade that can efficiently cut through wood and metal materials. Illustration included.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Caruthers, John I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History