Crate (open access)

Crate

Patent for a shipping crate that has detachable parts and is able to be folded. Illustrations included.
Date: October 5, 1909
Creator: Payne, Don F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Financial Controls Over the Expansion of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (open access)

An Audit Report on Financial Controls Over the Expansion of Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the sufficiency and effectiveness of financial controls over expansion activities at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.
Date: October 1998
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator. (open access)

Axle Lubricator.

Patent for a new and improved axle lubricator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel or reservoir, its piston, and screw of the passage leading up from the top of the barrel-chamber, and the tube passing through the axle-collar and into a cavity of the axle arm" (lines 92-97).
Date: October 7, 1884
Creator: Keller, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Connecting Member. (open access)

Connecting Member.

Patent for connecting members, "which in one form is particularly adapted for repairing chains or linking chains to each other and which may be modified so as to be used as buckles or for a variety of other purposes." (lines 20-24)
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Wallace, Milton M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3957 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3957

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Are probate matters "cases" within the meaning of that term as used in House Bill 1080 with reference to establishment of a county law library in Nueces County.
Date: October 7, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unloading and Feeding Apparatus. (open access)

Unloading and Feeding Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in Unloading and Feeding Apparatus, which improves the handling of fodder in a simple, practical, and cost effective way.
Date: October 14, 1919
Creator: Pierson, Ludvig B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for a resilient wheel, which absorbs shocks.
Date: October 4, 1910
Creator: Pierson, Marion Bunion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Removing Snow from Railway Tracks. (open access)

Device for Removing Snow from Railway Tracks.

Patent for a device that will remove snow from any tube structures using a rotary brush, as well as a suction device to intake displaced snow, and then melt it in a hopper.
Date: October 3, 1916
Creator: Purdin, Nettie J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Plugger. (open access)

Dental Plugger.

Patent for a dental plugger which has a movable cylinder on the interior with a "piston-like mallet working in the cylinder and adapted to strike the same, to impart movement to the dental tool" (lines 93-95).
Date: October 23, 1900
Creator: Blum, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History