Closet-Flushing Mechanism. (open access)

Closet-Flushing Mechanism.

Patent for a water closet flushing mechanism, which prevents the water from standing in the toilet bowl where it is liable to freeze in cold weather.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Parker, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher (open access)

Churn-Dasher

Patent for distributing air through cream while "thoroughly" agitating said cream, with brief instruction and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1904
Creator: Vestal, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Tooth. (open access)

Saw-Tooth.

Patent for a new design for saw-teeth, with illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Fleming, Christopher C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins (open access)

Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins

Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date: December 20, 1892
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c. (open access)

Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c.

Patent for "a combination-tool seeking to provide a single implement so constructed and inscribed as to be useful to architects, draftsmen, millwrights, machinists, and all metal and wood workers, and which shall be light and convenient to carry and may be quickly adjusted to its different positions for use" (lines 8-14).
Date: August 20, 1889
Creator: Meek, Alphonso Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annunciator. (open access)

Annunciator.

Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Fouts, Lambert F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
COTTON AND CORN PLANTER. (open access)

COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.

Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
Date: April 20, 1880
Creator: Faucher, George E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5250 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5250

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: Is there any violation of Article 4727, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes or Article 577, Vernon's Annotated Penal Code, regarding the purchase of certain real estate from the Texas Discount Company by the City National Life Insurance Company, Dallas, Texas, under the facts stated?
Date: April 20, 1943
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-886 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-886

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: Does Senate Bill 178, Acts 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, require that the Dallas County Hospital District be included in the annual independent audit along with the records and books of Dallas County and related questions.
Date: July 20, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop. (open access)

Automatic Train-Stop.

Patent for a more efficient automatic train stop with a mechanism that uses a connection with the block system used on railways to stop a train when it runs into "the tracks of the danger zone or upon the tracks of the block where the train should be stopped." (lines 16-18)
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Gramm, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Table and Chair (open access)

Combined Table and Chair

Patent for combined table and chair that is very durable and simple in construction. This will allow organization and support for either a chair use or table use.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Macon, Alexander W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Adding and Listing Machine. (open access)

Combined Adding and Listing Machine.

Patent for new improvements on combined adding and listing machines simplifying and economizing construction and facilitating, "rapidity of operation" (lines14-15). Improvements include: "causing the keys to act directly as stops for the adding wheel section; to provide novel accumulator mechanism...[with] a novel actuator; to provide a novel construction or sector-control bar; to provide a novel key-bar for operating...; to provide novel means for restoring the accumulator to normal; to provide stop mechanism to permit the carryovers of the accumulator...;to provide novel means for restoring the sectors to normal; to provide improved means for holding the accumulator in operative or inoperative position...; to provide novel means for connecting the accumulator sectors with the type sectors; 5o provide novel means for connecting the accumulator sectors with the type sectors; to provide novel means for actuating the hammer and paper feed mechanism; to provide improved general-error key mechanism; to provide an improved construction and operation of key-bar and sector-control bar; to permit of the operation of elimination" (lines 15-46).
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: McCaleb, Walter F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Appliance for Horses. (open access)

Electric Appliance for Horses.

Patent for an electric appliance for stallions meant to stop the horse from masturbating. It is a box underneath the horse that is secured around the horse. When the horse gets an erection, the penis will touch the lower plate of the box and cause the circuit to close and shocks the animal.
Date: March 20, 1894
Creator: King, George R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Independent School District: Human Resources and Substitute Teacher Program Review, January 2011 (open access)

Dallas Independent School District: Human Resources and Substitute Teacher Program Review, January 2011

This report reviews the management and performance of the Dallas Independent School District's (DISD) student behavior management system.
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: MGT of America, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Cutting Machine (open access)

Meat-Cutting Machine

Patent for a meat-cutting machine that employs a powered knife and saw combination for the slicing of meat.
Date: September 20, 1921
Creator: Creed, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pair of wheels and a main frame mounted loosely thereon, of a shaft journaled therein carrying a pinion and crank-wheel, a hoe adapted to be reciprocated by the crank-wheel, and an operating-lever connected with the shaft and hoe-handle, whereby the shaft is moved laterally and the hoe elevated simultaneously therewith" (lines 41-48).
Date: October 20, 1885
Creator: McGregor, Montague M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2016 (open access)

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Operating Budget: 2016

Proposed budget for University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: August 20, 2015
Creator: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2016 (open access)

University of Texas at Dallas Operating Budget: 2016

Proposed budget for University of Texas at Dallas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: August 20, 2015
Creator: University of Texas at Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motormeter-Anchor. (open access)

Motormeter-Anchor.

Patent for a new Motormeter-Anchor: a device that will "provide a means whereby a motormeter can be anchored securely to the radiator of an automobile, thus making theft of same impossible, or difficult that it will not be attempted" (lines 8-12).
Date: September 20, 1921
Creator: Ashton, William James
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop (open access)

Folding Coop

Patent for folding coops for the shipment of meat products, such as poultry. This invention will ensure greater efficiency in shipment of products.
Date: November 20, 1917
Creator: Randall, John G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet (open access)

Kitchen Cabinet

Patent for a kitchen cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Rosser, Virgil O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizer (open access)

Vaporizer

Patent for a vaporizer. This invention is for use in the medical field.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Beaumont, Godfrey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Classifying Comminuted Material. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Classifying Comminuted Material.

Patent for improving the process of classifying materials in order to reduce rehandling and improve efficiency in sizing materials through the use of screens.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for an adjustable hydrocarbon burner for use in cement kilns.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Dietz, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History