Automatic Air-Brake Coupling. (open access)

Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.

Patent for "a new and useful improvements in automatic air-brake couplers to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, the invention also relates to improvements in automatic air-brake couplings in cars". (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1900
Creator: Cary, Lewis C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined System of Electric Signaling and Switch Setting for Railroads (open access)

Combined System of Electric Signaling and Switch Setting for Railroads

Patent for improved system of electric signaling and opening and closing rail systems.
Date: April 17, 1906
Creator: Wagner, Bruno Otto
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Punch. (open access)

Check-Punch.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact check-punch that can be operated by one hand and doesn't take much power to operate. The machine consists of two movable members, "one of which carries all of the male and the other all of the female dies, said members being so related that when moved relatively to each other in one direction all the male dies move as a single member...and enter the female dies, and when moved in the opposite direction all of said male dies are withdrawn" (lines 12-20).
Date: March 17, 1896
Creator: Woodworth, Charles H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3475, Chapter 662 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3475, Chapter 662

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the statutory probate courts of El Paso County.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7370 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7370

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: Is the ten dollar membership fee made by the Southwestern Dance Association of El Paso taxable under Article 7047a-19, V.A.C.S.?
Date: October 17, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3462, Chapter 841 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3462, Chapter 841

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the board of hospital managers of the El Paso County Hospital District.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1383, Chapter 268 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1383, Chapter 268

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the territory of the El Paso County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed. (open access)

Bed.

Patent for a bed, specifically the joints of a bedframe. The side rails for a bedframe are joined by tapered connectors.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Hellweg, Rudolph F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for an internal combustion engine for multi-cylinder engines, which has automatically opening valves powered by the exhaust gas.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Thomas, Percy Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tatting-Shuttle. (open access)

Tatting-Shuttle.

Patent for an improvement in shuttles for making tatting which both winds the thread and uses spring tension to prevent it from unwinding, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Houseman, George Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading and Ditching Machine (open access)

Grading and Ditching Machine

Patent for a grading and ditching machine. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Baker, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Pulp Thickener. (open access)

Slime-Pulp Thickener.

Patent for a machine used in the wet milling process. It allows proportionate distribution of liquids to aide during the thickening process.
Date: April 17, 1923
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toupee and Wig Retainer (open access)

Toupee and Wig Retainer

A patent for a single-sided adhesive that holds a toupee or wig in place on the scalp without causing built-up residue to adhere to the wig.
Date: May 17, 1921
Creator: Tapscott, John Christoper
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Pulp Thickener (open access)

Slime-Pulp Thickener

Patent for a device for thickening slime or pulp in the treating of ores wet milling. The device controls the disbursement of slim pulp in the thickener, producing a better solid to liquid ratios.
Date: August 17, 1920
Creator: Allen, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Packing for Pistons. (open access)

Metallic Packing for Pistons.

Patent for metallic packing for pistons, which is composed of three concentric rings and is designed for internal combustion engines. The middle ring is designed to act as a channel for oil or other lubricants.
Date: December 17, 1918
Creator: Williams, Nolan S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pulverizer. (open access)

Pulverizer.

Patent for pulverizer that reduces solid or liquid fuel while simultaneously mixing the finely divided material with an oxidizing agent and holding the mixture in suspension, producing a highly combustible mechanical mixture for use in furnaces, gas producers, and other similar apparatus that is more desireable to use finely divided fuel.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry House and Pen (open access)

Poultry House and Pen

Patent for an improvement over Patent No. 1,070,819 for the construction of a poultry house and pen to raise young chickens, poultry, game, birds, and pet stocks.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Laidlaw, Peter B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires. (open access)

Method of and Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Methods of an Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires," (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Anthony, Daniel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Producer (open access)

Gas Producer

Patent for a gas producer from a continuous stream of combustibles with air.
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Hirt, Jules H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dehydrator. (open access)

Dehydrator.

Patent for a continuous dehydrator that has specific use for gold and silver ores, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1917
Creator: Biesel, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History