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Improvement in Baling Press.
Patent for improvement in baling press "for compressing cotton, hay, and other substances for baling" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 20, 1866
Creator:
Gillis, C. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
Patent for a refrigeration apparatus "in which a continuous operation is maintained by means of a current of ether or other volatile fluid which liquefies at a low temperature." (Lines 18-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1871
Creator:
Mühl, A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dining-Tables.
Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddles.
Patent for re-enforcing and strengthening the front of a saddle.
Date:
September 13, 1873
Creator:
McGrath, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banana-Case
Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Aiken, Robert H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Sand and Gravel Washer
Patent for "a combined gravel and sand washing box which shall effectually serve as a means for practically removing all sand and dirt from gravel and stones and all mud and fine dirt from sand" (lines 30-34).
Date:
November 20, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive car-coupling that improves on the pin-and-link car-couplings and "will be capable of coupling automatically and which may be readily uncoupled without going between cars" (lines 13-15). After the car has been separated, this coupling automatically puts its parts in position to be re-coupled. It also enables a "flying kick" to be transmitted to the car.
Date:
November 24, 1896
Creator:
Lee, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pole Tip and Neck Yoke Clamp.
Patent for a new combination wagon-pole tip and neck-yoke clamp. This design "provide[s] a combined wagon-pole tip or socket and neck-yoke clamp of novel construction, which can be easily attached to and detached from the pole or neck-yoke, and which, when in use, will be self-adjusting to the movements of the neck-yoke due to the motion of the team" (lines 9-15).
Date:
November 14, 1882
Creator:
Sibert, Francis William & Hurd, Stephen Porter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Ores.
Patent for "an improved method of reducing gold and silver ores and recovering their metals." (Lines 10-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1896
Creator:
Barbour, Thomas P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Building Concrete Walls.
Patent for a mold to be used in the construction of concrete walls, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone.
Patent for a simple and effective magneto telephone with a newly designed apparatus that allows the telephone to better receive and transmit calls and "will receive its magnetism from the magnets of the magneto call" (lines 21-22).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Serdinko, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved hoeing machine. This design is "first, to provide a joint between the handle and the gage-wheel, and to insure such arrangement of parts as will enable the operator, by raising and lowering one hand, to give the blade an oscillating motion or swing it from right to left with the greatest ease, and without tipping or turning the wheel or changing too much the position of the blade in respect to the surface of the ground; second, to provide a double gage-wheel that will have all the advantages of a leaning gage-wheel and will also stand firmly by itself" (lines 14-26).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Horometer.
Patent for a new and improved electrical horometer. This design consists, in addition to a switch-board with electric circuit terminals, "of a bell-crank lever pivoted to the switch-board and making the connection between said terminals, said lever having at one end a handle and at the other end a detent engaging with the ratchet-wheel when the circuit is opened, the said wheel being mounted upon the extended portion of one of the shafts of a clock or other suitable registering mechanism" (lines 1-8).
Date:
November 29, 1887
Creator:
Hammond, Benjamin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Screw.
Patent for a new and improved wood screw. This design "consists of a screw-head having on the underside . . . cutting-edges alternating with flat and deep interspaces or notches, said notches completely filling the circuit of the screw-head and the notches gradually increasing in width and depth from the screw-shank to the crown of the head, thus enabling the cutters to clear themselves" (lines 12-20).
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
Eckford, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Odorless Dry Outhouse and Apparatus for Use Therewith
Patent for "an outhouse which will be adapted for use in localties where water is scarce, or where it is either or both impracticable or undesirable to use water for flushing or draining" (lines 32-36).
Date:
November 20, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Odorless Dry Outhouse and Refuse-Burner.
Patent for a combined odorless dry outhouse and refuse burner for a cellar or vault in which night-soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time with low expense, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "consists in the combination, with a jaw provided with a pocket having an opening in its bottom, of a pivoted bar having a bead or nipple, which bar is passed through the pocket, and of a spring held in the pocket jaw and resting on the bar" (lines 12-17).
Date:
November 10, 1885
Creator:
Maurer, Adam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress Stay.
Patent for a new and improved dress-stay. This design "is to avoid the use of paste or stitches in connection with the application of the stay, as well as to provide a stay which may be readily detached and reattached in case it be desired to change the location of the seam in order to make the garment either larger or smaller. To this end the invention consists in a stay-body of steel, whalebone, or some other resilient material inclosed within a suitable casing, and wire fasteners passing through said body, through the outer side of said casing, and through the edges of the seam at either side" (lines 10-23).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the employment of a handled shaft hung in suitable bearings or buffers at the end of the car, and having a wheel provided with a series of pins or arms adapted to be automatically projected and retracted, said shaft also having ratchets engaged by holding-pawls" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 14, 1882
Creator:
McLeary, James Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6873
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: Validity of a contract for the collection of delinquent taxes in Bexar County
Date:
November 7, 1945
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4170
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: Whether Bexar County must pay expenses of holding an election to determine whether there shall be created a Junior College District of Bexar County, and related questions.
Date:
November 4, 1941
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5934
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: As neither the original Dallas County Bonds, nor the Refunding Bonds issued in lieu thereof were authorized and issued under authority if either chapter 1 , Title 18, Revised Statutes, 1911, or Chapter 2, Title 22, Revised Statutes 1925, are the Refunding Bonds now redeemable under authority of the decision of the supreme court in Bexas County V. Sellers?
Date:
November 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-728
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 authority of the Commissioners' Court to issue time warrants to finance improvements at Bexar County Agricultural and Livestock Exhibition Building.
Date:
November 30, 1948
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History