Brooder (open access)

Brooder

Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Becker, August B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7311 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7311

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: Expenditure of funds held by Colorado County as remitted ad valorem taxes, under Chap. 361, Acts 49th Legislature.
Date: November 15, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Walker, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region K (Lower Colorado), 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region K (Lower Colorado), 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region K describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, recommendations for water management for different suppliers and areas, drought response measures, and plan creation activities.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region K (Lower Colorado), 2016, Volume 2. Water Management Strategies and Appendices (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region K (Lower Colorado), 2016, Volume 2. Water Management Strategies and Appendices

Volume two of the water plan for Region K (Lower Colorado) describing water management strategies, drought response plans, the process of creating the plan and appendices with with related reports.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater. (open access)

Water-Heater.

Patent for a portable water heater "in which a circulation of water may be had, whereby the same may become readily heated for use in a bath tub or other receptacle." (lines 12-15)
Date: November 18, 1913
Creator: Ramsey, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stapling Machine (open access)

Stapling Machine

Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Kennedy, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garden Implement (open access)

Garden Implement

This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
Date: November 9, 1912
Creator: Ward, John Swayze
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a new type of plow granted to Anton Schindler.
Date: November 25, 1884
Creator: Schindler, Anton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheeled Stretcher or Litter (open access)

Wheeled Stretcher or Litter

Patent for wheeled stretcher used to transport wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Date: November 21, 1916
Creator: Doole, Thomas P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger. (open access)

Post Hole Digger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).
Date: November 21, 1882
Creator: Armstrong, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History