Buckle-Making Machine (open access)

Buckle-Making Machine

Patent for a buckle making machine for forming wires into tie buckles for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Frantz, Ezra A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1450 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1450

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: Duty of the County Clerk to record deaths and births occurring in Parker County within or without the City of Weatherford.
Date: April 30, 1952
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Digger. (open access)

Peanut-Digger.

Patent for machine that extracts peanuts while avoiding losing nitrogen from the root in the process. Machine severs plants from the roots and raises the whole plant in order to release loose dirt, then gathers the. plants using a rake-like mechanism.
Date: August 30, 1921
Creator: Smith, Morman J. & Browder, Benjamin F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a "new and useful plow"(line 5). The plow is of "durable construction and adapt the same for a convenient adjustment of the standard, whereby the plow may be adapted to run deep or shallow"(Lines 10-14). Illustration Included.
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Jensen, Ole T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Filler. (open access)

Tire-Filler.

Patent for an improved tire filler "adapted to fit within a tire casing" (lines 5-6, p. 2), including illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Huffman, Orla L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Snuff-Box. (open access)

Snuff-Box.

Patent for a snuff box "in which the snuff may be conveniently packed for shipment and sale; and which is also adapted to carry the brush so that it is kept out of contact with the snuff and with the clothing, and to provide means for ejecting the brush handle when the box is open so that it may be conveniently grasped and used" (lines 20-27).
Date: May 30, 1893
Creator: Powell, Charles L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History