Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6379 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6379

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: Whether the Comptroller of Public Accounts should pay the salary of the Judge of the 94th Judicial District Court of Nueces County after April 9, 1945 or July 1, 1945, and another question.
Date: January 9, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid and Gaseous Fuel Burner (open access)

Liquid and Gaseous Fuel Burner

Patent for a improvements for liquid and gaseous fuel burner, with a particular emphasis, "to the burner caps of gas stoves."
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Lozano, Antonio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Train Control System (open access)

Train Control System

Patent for an improved train control system that will help to stop train movement when approached b another train or vehicle on tracks within a predetermined or dangerous distance. It is intended to cause a signal that will allow the train engineer to both opportunity and warning in time to apply brakes and stop. The design also enhances the utility and efficiency of the train control system.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Smith, S. G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for improving a plow device that is curved and has open grooves.
Date: September 11, 1875
Creator: Freeman, Irvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed Water Heater. (open access)

Feed Water Heater.

Patent for a new and improved feed-water heater. This design "is to provide a boiler with a feed-water heater which will serve as a spark-arrester, and which will also purify the water and prevent the formation of scale in the water, and whereby, also, the heating surface will be increased and fuel economized. The invention consists of a feed-water heater composed of a series of pipes attached to half-cylindrical heads, placed diagonally in the fire-box of the boiler, and connected with the water-space of the boiler" (lines 8-19).
Date: November 9, 1886
Creator: Green, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Meat-Clamp. (open access)

Sanitary Meat-Clamp.

Patent for a clamp to secure large quantities of meat while being cut, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Rice, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flush-Valve (open access)

Flush-Valve

Patent for a valve for a general flush tank.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Cahill, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History