Wire Basket. (open access)

Wire Basket.

Patent for a new and improved wire basket. This design "consists in a wire basket formed of a circular bottom, and a wire frame bent to form a cylinder, in the lower part of which cylinder the circular bottom is held" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 10, 1885
Creator: Elliott, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5813 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5813

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: Under the facts submitted, may the Equalization Board of the Texarkana, Texas, Public Schools evaluate and assess for taxation money and securities of certain estates deposited in the Texarkana National Bank?
Date: February 1, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Table (open access)

Folding Table

Patent for a folding table. Illustration included.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Moore, William Bryant
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Crouch, Jim L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Cart. (open access)

Log-Cart.

Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin log carts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1900
Creator: Bender, Gustave
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine. (open access)

Saw-Filing Machine.

Patent for a saw filing machine that keeps the teeth of saws properly aligned, while they are being sharpened.
Date: February 27, 1912
Creator: Haltom, Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder (open access)

Rein-Holder

Patent for a rein holder for attachment to vehicles that stays securely in place.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Bean, Jesse Alfonso
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Cleaning Cotton

Patent for an improvement to boll breakers and cotton cleaners by performing the tasks of picking, cleaning, beating, and spreading more efficiently and effectively.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Streun, John Arnold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Signals (open access)

Improvement in Signals

Patent for a signal for an exhaust pipe of an automobile. Essentially, this device would quiet exhaust noise leaving an automobile.
Date: February 26, 1919
Creator: Baker, James Slayton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History