Cloth-Measuring Machine. (open access)

Cloth-Measuring Machine.

Patent for a cloth cleaning machine to "furnish bagging-reels, so constructed that the bagging can be conveniently unwound from the roll, measured automatically, and again wound into a roll" (lines 13-17).
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Dodson, Orson W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1352 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1352

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: Constitutionality of House Bill 584, Acts 52nd Leg., R.S. 1951, regulating the taking and killing of deer in Panola, Rusk, Harrison, Gregg, and Shelby Counties.
Date: November 20, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Seal. (open access)

Car-Door Seal.

Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date: October 20, 1916
Creator: Wright, Memory G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table. (open access)

Ironing-Table.

Patent for an improved folding ironing-table that has "its top pivoted to the longer of two pairs of legs, the shorter pair designed to hold a cross bar which is adapted to support the table top about midway its length, when the table is opened and set up for use" (lines 18-22).
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Coleman, Robert Franklin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Motor (open access)

Water Motor

Patent for a water motor. This is an invention for a type of motor operated by tidal power.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Brooks, Jesse W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shock-Absorber and Axle-Reinforcement. (open access)

Shock-Absorber and Axle-Reinforcement.

Patent for a shock absorber and axle reinforcer designed to protect the axle and spring in motor vehicles with a front transverse spring while driving over rough road.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Teller, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History