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Combined Filtering and Heating Device
Patent for a combined filtering and heating device for water that is attached to a dentist chair.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Gambati, Olympio F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door
Patent for a car door. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Pearce, Joseph E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing Mechanism
Patent for a casing mechanism for placing in oil wells to block water flow.
Date:
February 14, 1911
Creator:
Stewart, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Structure
Patent for building frame structures with interlocking timbers that allows for easy movement of the timbers to provide ventilation when needed.
Date:
February 19, 1907
Creator:
Yoakum, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Fastening
Patent for a bale band fastening. Illustration included.
Date:
February 28, 1905
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Heater and Filter
Patent for a combined heater and filter. This invention is used in a dentists office to regulate the water supply for at the dentists chair. Illustration included.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Gambati, Olympio F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp Headlight
Patent for an electric arc headlight for trains, cars, or boats which produces a steady light and lasts long enough to allow travel over long distances.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Lacy, Benjamin B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer
Patent for a conveyer system in use with threshing machines. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy.
Patent for a canopy for beds and sofas to keep out insects.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Swanwick, Harry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Bottoms of Ships.
Patent for apparatus for cleaning the bottom of ships "to provide a simple and practical apparatus for removing barnacles, seaweed, mud, and other adhesions from the sides and bottom of a ship" (line 10).
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Culpepper, Robert Smith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank for Making Perforated Tubing
Patent for a blank for the manufacturing of well tubing used in water and oil wells.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for combining both cotton choppers and cultivators. This will create a more easily operated piece of machinery.
Date:
February 4, 1902
Creator:
Bass, James Milton, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Holder.
Patent for a bicycle-holder that holds the bicycle upright. It consists of "a pair of plates clamped upon a portion of the frame of a bicycle, two pairs of ears formed integral with and depending from said plates, one pair of ears being formed convcavo-convex to form a socket between them and constructed with semicircular notches in their lower edges, a rod having a ball or spherical body on its upper end that is located and held for movement in the so formed socket, a lug formed integral with the lower end of one of the remaining pair of ears, and an arm pivoted between said remaining pair of ears, said arm having a bifurcated lower end that engages the rim or tire of the front wheel of the bicycle" (lines 40-54).
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
McKanna, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel for Forcing Molasses, &c.
Patent for a new and improved funnel. This design "relates to improvements in funnels for transferring molasses and other thick liquid and substances from one receptacle into bottles, jars, and other vessels; and the objects of [the] improvements are to provide a funnel with means for securing it to a table, counter, &c.; to provide said funnel with means for forcing a liquid therethrough and the forcing apparatus with a detachable spout thereunder" (lines 10-19).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Henke, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Lee, Jacob M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for the "construction of a spark-arrester adapted to the smoke-stack of any locomotive" (lines 12-13) detailing a new and better combination and arrangement of plates and screens.
Date:
February 10, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1012
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: The applicability of State inspection fees to a fertilizer sold by the City of Houston.
Date:
February 21, 1950
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-21
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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Tax status of building owned by the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Roman Catholic Church.
Date:
February 9, 1967
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-3
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, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Duty of Criminal District Attorney of Harris County generally in civil matters and to represent Harris County Flood Control District.
Date:
February 9, 1953
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3049
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: Accrual of tax levied by Article 7047(41.a), Vernon's Annotated Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, upon the sale of cement to contractor under a "cost-plus-affixed-fee" contract with the War Department for the construction of a Total and Explosive plant at Baytown, Texas.
Date:
February 21, 1941
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Container.
Patent for new improved containers adapted for the shipment of eggs, including illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1917
Creator:
Hall, Cyrus M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel Buffer
Patent for an improved construction for a vehicle-wheel buffer which eliminates deterioration of its components found in ordinary type buffer. This invention implements an anti-friction mounting which allows the buffer to rotate freely.
Date:
February 25, 1915
Creator:
Kettler, Martin F.; M. F. Kettler
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Swing and Couch.
Patent for a piece of swinging furniture for infants and small children which can be converted between a seat and a couch. This device is designed to be collapsed and folded for easy storage, as well as to be cheap and easy to manufacture. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 10, 1920
Creator:
McDevitt, Leslie I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Air-Compressor.
Patent for an improved Compound Air-Compressor by having four cylinders, in pairings of a high pressure and a low pressure cylinders. The air from the low pressure cylinder will be fed to the high pressure cylinder. The pistons will work in succession rather than simultaneously.
Date:
February 17, 1920
Creator:
Jones, Oceola
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History