Gas-Vent for Molds. (open access)

Gas-Vent for Molds.

Patent for a gas-vent for molds. Its object is "to provide a simple and cheap construction whereby free escape of the gas or air is permitted form the mold into which molten metals...are to be poured for the purpose of forming a casting" (lines 12-18). Construction of the vent may vary.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Streetman, Willard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Stanton, James Robertson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrap. (open access)

Wrap.

Patent for a wrap for babies, which encloses the body except for the face that is closed with hooks at the arms, legs and head, which can be opened to free any of those members.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Mercey, Nettie T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lemon Juice Extractor (open access)

Lemon Juice Extractor

Patent for a lemon juice extractor. Illustration included.
Date: May 2, 1905
Creator: Conroy, Eliza D. & Jobe, L. D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter (open access)

Stalk Cutter

Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustration included.
Date: August 2, 1904
Creator: Tally, Richard C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch (open access)

Railway Switch

Patent for railway switch. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Reynolds, John I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Burleson Bicycle Trails (open access)

An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Burleson Bicycle Trails

An archaeological survey of 2.8 miles of bicycle trails in the city of Burleson.
Date: December 2, 2005
Creator: Todd, Jesse
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Fly-Trap. (open access)

Electric Fly-Trap.

Patent for a cheap and simple electric fly trap that operates automatically, including illustrations.
Date: November 2, 1915
Creator: Bass, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Mechanism For Printing Press (open access)

Feeding Mechanism For Printing Press

Patent for "an improved mechanism whereby the paper or other material is automatically fed to the press in web or continuous form and automatically cut off in the desired lengths as it passes from the feeding mechanism" (lines 23-26).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Prescott, Sitwell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4723, Chapter 391 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4723, Chapter 391

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Belmont Municipal Utility District of Johnson County; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Date: June 2, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History