Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a baling press that has an improved plunger.
Date: September 26, 1911
Creator: Hightower, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake (open access)

Beamless Brake

Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier Iron for Draw Bars. (open access)

Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.

Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1277 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1277

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: Maximum payments which may be made to County Commissioners of Harrison County for traveling expenses.
Date: September 11, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, September 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper East Texas, September 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper East Texas area.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gate-Latches. (open access)

Improvement in Gate-Latches.

Patent for improvements in gate latches: "to provide a self closing latch, simple in its construction and easy f operation" (lines 18-19).
Date: September 26, 1871
Creator: Lee, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shipping-Basket (open access)

Shipping-Basket

Patent for a shipping basket designed to keep contents secure and undamaged.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Pitts, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design is "especially adapted for manipulating pipe-joints, though applicable, also, for use in manipulating nuts, &c.; and it consists in the [novel] detailed construction and combination of operating parts" (lines 24-28).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Weir, Duncan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expansion Reamer (open access)

Expansion Reamer

Patent for expansion reamer provides scope for a better and improved expansion reamer.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Scheuber, William F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch. (open access)

Switch.

Patent for an electric switch that is used in conjunction with a signaling device that allows for lights to be activated synchronously or asynchronously via the use of two levers.
Date: September 6, 1921
Creator: Riggs, Fletcher S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History