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Coffee Pot.
Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "the cover, the jointed parts by means of which the cover is connected to the pot, and the guide through which the part has a sliding movement" (lines 79-83). This novel construction "is to produce a coffee pot in which the cover is made adjustable, so as to be adapted to close over the top of the pot, or to be dropped back out of the way when the condenser is used" (lines 17-21).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector.
Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Saxon, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector.
Patent for a bank-protector that consists of vertically moving shields arranged just within the cashier's and teller's windows and the outer door of the bank, and a mechanism that allows the cashier to drop the shields and sound an alarm. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Saxon, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
Date:
December 17, 1878
Creator:
Piner, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n a working-body churn, the combination, with the churn-body having centrally-disposed turret, and the breaking-frames having their lower ends resting in suitable seats, in the bottom of the churn-body and their upper ends extended into the turret thereof, of the block having sockets and placed on the breaking-frames with its lower side projected above the turret, and the cap or lid, placed on the turret and bearing against the block and securing the same and the breaking-frames in position" (lines 23-34).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
German, Eliza
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Lee, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Royse, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot.
Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design "consists in securing a wire diagonally down the side of the pot, and to which wire is attached the cover of the pot in such a manner that the cover can be dropped down out of the way when the condenser is put on without detaching the cover from the pot" (lines 13-18).
Date:
October 4, 1881
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot.
Patent for "improvements in coffee-pots, and has for its object the provision of an improved coffee-grounds holder, together with a device of improved form for spraying the water thereover, the latter device operating in conjunction with a condenser; and a further object is to provide the pot with an adjustable handle." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.
Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a simple and efficient churn where "the process of churning is rendered easier, the resultant product firmer, and butter obtained in a shorter space of time than heretofore, while at the same time the milk is left in better condition and rendered free from water" (lines 12-17).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Holt, Henry Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Skein.
Patent for an axle-skein. Its purpose is "to improve the construction of axle-skeins, to increase their strength and durability, and to decrease the wear of the same at the bottom thereof" (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Finley, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a pin-and-link car-coupling that allows "cars to be readily coupled and uncoupled without going between them, and by which a link may be readily guided into the mouth of a draw-head without necessitating a person going between the cars" (lines 11-16). It also has a durable link lifting or guiding device.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Orr, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2647, Chapter 636
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to designation of Farm-to-Market Road 68 in Fannin County as Speaker Jimmy Turman Road.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 421, Chapter 277
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the office of criminal district attorney of Fannin County and to the abolition of the office of county attorney of Fannin County.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1059
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 salary of the court reporter of the 6th Judicial District comprised of Fannin and Lamar Counties.
Date:
May 16, 1950
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7116
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 Fannin County authorized to pay claim for expenses incurred by county attorney in engaging court reporter to transcribe testimony given in a felony trial for use in another criminal trial?
Date:
March 29, 1946
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5746
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: Salaries of county officials of Fannin County.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-12
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: Is Fannin County liable to Fannin County Levee Improvement District No. 1 for taxes which accrued on county land after acquisition and use by the county as a poor farm?
Date:
January 24, 1947
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-96
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: Whether or not there is a vacancy in the office of Justice of the Peace of Precinct 2, Fannin County, under the facts submitted.
Date:
March 20, 1947
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Lamar County, Block 13
Parent map for Lamar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Grayson County, Block 31
Parent map for Grayson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:12,500.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Lamar County, Block 17
Parent map for Lamar County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Collin County, Block 6
Parent map for Collin County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:10,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History