Automatic Wagon-Brake. (open access)

Automatic Wagon-Brake.

Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bee Feeder. (open access)

Bee Feeder.

Patent for a new and improved bee feeder. This design consists in "the vertically oblong box or case having an opening in one side of its lower end, a trough or basin projecting in front of said lower opening, and lateral attaching flanges or wings" (lines 68-72).
Date: February 8, 1887
Creator: McWilliams, Wright H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clip for Type-Writers. (open access)

Clip for Type-Writers.

Patent for a clip for type-writers for Remington or similar type-writers that holds post-cards, envelopes, and similar short items in place. The invention prevents "the blurring or bad impression which is apt to be made, more particularly in machines having type bars with two types each, when the paper is not held firmly to the roller or platen" (lines 12-16).
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Gibson, Allen J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad. (open access)

Knee-Pad.

Patent for a knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, or gardening. It protects the knee from dampness, stones, roots, etc. The pad goes on the knee, and two wooden braces are on the sides. A strap goes around the user's shoe, and the bolts were the pad is attached to the braces also has string where the operator ties the brace to himself.
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Davis, James Walter & Brown, Elijah Clark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for a plow for use in heavy or wet lands, including illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1879
Creator: Woodward, Lewis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer. (open access)

Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer.

Patent for a storage-condenser and lint-cotton conveyor. It forms lint-cotton into a bat so it can be delivered to a baling machine. with this invention, "a battery or batteries of gins can continuously discharge lint-cotton to a mechanism for conveying the same to a point in juxtaposition to cotton baling or pressing mechanism, and the necessity of stopping the gins during the time the bale is being tied, where a single press-box, or single pressing mechanism is used, is avoided, thus enabling the gins to continuously operate even when a single press-box or single baling or pressing mechanism is employed" (lines 18-28). Lint-cotton discharged from a gin is stored while a bale is being tied or pressed, and the bat the lint-cotton conveyor produces is even so the density of the bale is even. Air can escape from the bat-forming apparatus, eliminating dust from the cotton.
Date: February 25, 1896
Creator: Tennison, John S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Wick. (open access)

Lamp Wick.

Patent for a new and improved wick for oil lamps. This design "consists in forming the lamp-wick of one or more layers of mineral wool inclosed in a textile material, the whole being sewed together by a series of parallel longitudinal stitches" (lines 18-22). Employing textile material represents an improvement in capillarity over previous wicks made with refractory cement.
Date: February 14, 1882
Creator: Bèck, Gebhard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for an improvement in washing-machine by attaching two horizontal "braces" to the supporting legs of the suds-box, and making the supporting legs adjustable both vertically and laterally. This feature would allow the adjustment of the suds-box’s position and to spread the legs for a firmer support of the suds-box. Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1891
Creator: Schrib, Juni
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

Rotary Engine.

Patent for a stably constructed and effective rotary engine in which "the full effect of live steam under a full head can be attained at all times on the drive shaft" (lines 12-14).
Date: February 27, 1894
Creator: Walker, James C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-33 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-33

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: Whether the Commissioners Court of McLennan County can consider a bid for county depository accompanied by a cashier's check, as provided for in Article 2545, V. C. S., and related questions.
Date: February 28, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-387 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-387

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 a person whose driver's license has been suspended under the Safety Responsibility Act (Article 6701h, V. C. S.) must surrender such license to the Department of Public Safety on demand pursuant to Section 32 (4), Article 6687b, V. C. S.
Date: February 4, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool (open access)

Combination Tool

Patent for a combination tool. Illustration included.
Date: February 20, 1906
Creator: Barry, Jefferson D.; Wise, Daniel; Dehn, Frederick D. & Crossland, Mortimer L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator designed so that the plows can be conveniently set to any pitch as needed for deep or shallow plowing. Illustrations included.
Date: February 16, 1909
Creator: Miller, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable-Transplanting Machine. (open access)

Vegetable-Transplanting Machine.

Patent for Vegetable transplanting machine, it describes about new technique of planting a crops with effective irrigation technique
Date: February 10, 1902
Creator: Carroll, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Pipe Joint (open access)

Metal-Pipe Joint

Patent for a metal-pipe joint.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: West, Gustavus Hannibal
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Explosion Engines (open access)

Governor for Explosion Engines

Patent for a governor for explosion engines. Illustration included.
Date: February 14, 1905
Creator: Haydon, Bennie W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow Attachment For Cultivators (open access)

Harrow Attachment For Cultivators

Patent for a harrow attachment for cultivators. Illustrations included.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Horne, Tom & Smith, Denton C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Attachment (open access)

Hame Attachment

Patent for a hame attachment. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1905
Creator: Herbelin, Alfred
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Shoe Sole and Heel. (open access)

Rubber Shoe Sole and Heel.

Patent for a rubber shoe sole and heel which is adapted to be readily attached to the welt of a hand-sewed or Goodyear rubber shoe, including illustrations. The rubber shoe sole and heel is designed to bring the tread surface of the heel-piece in proper alignment with the tread-face of the sole-piece with a flange around it to facilitate connection to the welt of the shoe.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Connor, Frank C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Sharpening Machine. (open access)

Saw-Sharpening Machine.

Patent for improvements in "that class of saw-sharpening machines in which straight-edge-filing devices reciprocally movable are provided and in which ratchet mechanism for feeding the saw is also included" (lines 8-12) including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Phelps, Ruben P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a harrow that cuts weeds at the root and pulls them out without breaking up the sod.
Date: February 14, 1911
Creator: Halvé, Bruno
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Making Machine. (open access)

Mattress-Making Machine.

Patent for a mattress making machine that is more simple but equally-efficient as previous mattress making machines. This patent is an improvement to the inventor's previous patent, No. 679,809.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: White, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint, which can be quickly connected and uses fewer parts than other rail joints.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Krueger, Frederick William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History