Acetylene Gas Torch (open access)

Acetylene Gas Torch

Patent for a acetylene gas torch. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Marsh, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat Roost (open access)

Bat Roost

Patent for a bat roost. Illustration included.
Date: March 1, 1910
Creator: Campbell, Charles A. R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Pump (open access)

Automobile-Pump

Patent for an automobile tire pump that can be used with any size tire.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Goeth, Richard Anton; Rodgers, Robert B. & Dittmar, John Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine. (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in shell-loading machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Handshy, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for a windmill attachment that will increase the pumping capacity of windmills or other lifting pumps.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Engle, Matthew H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper for thinning young cotton plants that is cheaper to make and more efficient than previous models.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Sterling, Rufus Taylor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and useful churn to "provide a simple and inexpensive construction of dasher adapted to supply air to the bottom of a churn-receptacle" (line 7 - 9).
Date: March 29, 1898
Creator: Burke, Henry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Concrete Walls (open access)

Apparatus for Molding Concrete Walls

Patent for an apparatus for molding concrete walls which is easy to assemble and move around and can be used for different size and shape walls.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Cross, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbid Feeding Device (open access)

Carbid Feeding Device

Patent for carbid feeding device. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Sinclair, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs (open access)

Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs

Patent for a molding and printing device for forming hollow backed signs and name plates.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Simmang, Charles Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffin. (open access)

Coffin.

Patent for "a coffin of improved construction and composition, to so construct the same as to render it impervious to the action of water or moisture, and to render said coffin strong and durable and admit of the same being produced in a neat and ornamental form." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 3, 1896
Creator: Handshy, Henry M.
Object Type: Patent
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
Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses (open access)

Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses

Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings by providing "a coupler which will without any adjustment couple two cars whose draw-heads are of different heights.” (lines 17-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Thompson, James A. M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Loading Fire-Arm. (open access)

Breech-Loading Fire-Arm.

Patent for breech-loaded fire-arms, with illustrations. The purpose of the breech-loaded fire-arms was to improve existing fire-arms by allowing for a method to prevent accidental discharge.
Date: March 18, 1884
Creator: Schraud, Franz
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest (open access)

Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest

Patent for a head rest to be used in cars and other places and can be attached to a seat or shawl, including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1879
Creator: McLane, Hiram H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1161 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1161

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: Exemption from ad valorem taxes of Comal Plant, various properties used in connection therewith, and Kuehler Power Station Site, all owned by City of San Antonio.
Date: March 29, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-94 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-94

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: The matter of jurisdiction over felony cases of the District Courts of Bexar County.
Date: March 20, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-103 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-103

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: Under the given facts would the Commissioners' Court of Bexar County have the authority to reallocate certain funds under the Budget Law?
Date: March 25, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-106 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-106

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: Authority of Commissioners' Court of Bexar County to supervise and control a county juvenile detention home for boys.
Date: March 26, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-406 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-406

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of County Auditor to pay $1,443.09 for additional work arising from unexpected difficulties under a contract and $1,238.22 for extra work not included under the contract; application of Article 1659 and Article 2368a to Bexar County.
Date: March 27, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressing Apparatus. (open access)

Air-Compressing Apparatus.

Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boot-Tree Former. (open access)

Boot-Tree Former.

Patent for a boot-tree former, which is used in boot manufacturing to form and stretch the shape of a boot.
Date: March 14, 1914
Creator: Lucchese, Michele
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telltale Switch (open access)

Telltale Switch

Patent for switch that indicates when a vacuum fails. Used for systems in "which it is desired to keep a ... uniform vacuum such as in fruit dryers, creosoting plants, surgace and jet condensing for steam plants and the like" (lines 21-25).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Howland, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History