Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp. (open access)

Bedclothes-Clamp.

Patent for new clamping device that holds the mattress and bedding of a folding bed in place, is adjustable, and is not in the way when the bed is in use.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: Baley, Katie
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Attachment (open access)

Balancing Attachment

Patent for a balancing attachment. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Coons, Charles E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Lewis, Nathan D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Inkstand and Pen-Rack. (open access)

Combined Inkstand and Pen-Rack.

Patent for a inkstand with a magnetized pen-rack. If the pen or pencil isn't metal, a metal sleeve is provided to put around the utensil so it can sit on the rack. There is a space for ink-wells, pen-boxes, and a space for advertisements. It is meant for customers to use in lobbies.
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Moyer, Herman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-422 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-422

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the office of Justice of the Peace in Tarrant County has the same authority to conduct inquests and order autopsies now, as it did prior January 1, 1965, and related questions.
Date: March 14, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wise County, Block 23

Parent map for Wise County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Parker County, Block 12

Parent map for Parker County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wise County, Index

Index map for Wise County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:86,998.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine. (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine.

Patent for an automatic weighing machine.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Ball, Andrew J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3642, Chapter 1183 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3642, Chapter 1183

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the jurisdiction of a county court at law in Tarrant County.
Date: June 14, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for improvement in regular car-seating (not baby car-seat) by enabling the seat to recline “like an ordinary sleeping-coach without the necessity of the upper berths required in a sleeping-coach.” (Lines 45-48) Illustration is included.
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wise County, Inset J01

Inset map for Wise County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:3,724.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Parker County, Block 8

Parent map for Parker County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Parker County, Block 16

Parent map for Parker County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Support (open access)

Mirror Support

Patent for improvements in mirror supports are primarily adapted by travelers. The mirror can also be supported by an electric bulb and can also be turned at varying desired angles.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Reavis, Jesse O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Parker County, Index

Index map for Parker County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:86,998.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wise County, Block 22

Parent map for Wise County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Parker County, Block 4

Parent map for Parker County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,000.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive number Plate and Holder Therefor (open access)

Locomotive number Plate and Holder Therefor

Patent for a locomotive number plate and holder therefor. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Lape, John K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for valves which are of a better construction to prevent leakage.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Bird, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Instep Bearing Or Guard For Stirrups. (open access)

Instep Bearing Or Guard For Stirrups.

Patent for a new and improved instep bearing or guard for stirrups, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Kellner, Charles J. E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Throwing Mechanism for Railway-Cars. (open access)

Switch-Throwing Mechanism for Railway-Cars.

Patent for improvements in switch-throwing mechanism for railway-cars in which the motor operator can throw a switch without stopping the car and it will be accurate. Illustration is included.
Date: October 14, 1913
Creator: Slate, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History