Spring-Motor (open access)

Spring-Motor

Patent for a spring motor for use in operating small devices such as churns.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Dayton, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seat - Action Flushing Apparatus. (open access)

Seat - Action Flushing Apparatus.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seat-action flushing apparatus. This design is to "provide a cistern into which the water is admitted only when the seat is occupied" (line 14-17).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Ackley, George D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Packing. (open access)

Metallic Packing.

Patent for metallic packing for piston rods and valve stems of engines to create a tight joint.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Fulford, Marcus F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness Saddle (open access)

Harness Saddle

Patent is for "improvements in harness saddles" (lines 6-7) that will "not injure animals' backs and which will be automatically adjustable to a back of any size or shape."
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Edelbrock, Frank E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Powder-Ejector. (open access)

Powder-Ejector.

Patent for a powder medicine ejector for discharging medicine into patients body cavities, which allows a dose of the medicine to be discharged from a larger quantity stored in the ejector.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Kline, Charles W. & Long, Harley A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame (open access)

Quilting-Frame

Patent for a new type of quilting frame. The improved Quilting-Frame can be used with a standard sewing machine. The device allows a sewing machine to in seams.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Cribbs, William D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Making Machine. (open access)

Mattress-Making Machine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in mattress making machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1900
Creator: Stewart, Isaac N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Frame (open access)

Plow Frame

Patent for a plow frame "to which may be attached plow bottoms or cultivator beams" (lines 11-12).
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Brown, Bartley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Hanging Wall-Paper. (open access)

Device for Hanging Wall-Paper.

Patent for a device for hanging wall paper that includes a paper holder and paper brush/roller.
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Randle, Millard F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0385 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0385

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request for "information on charge of possession of a controlled substance against Jeremy Rawling."
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rodless Double-Acting Pump (open access)

Rodless Double-Acting Pump

Patent for a Rodless Double-Acting Pump to "...eliminate the pump rods and substitute flexible connections" (lines 11-12).
Date: February 12, 1917
Creator: Schilder, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve for explosive-engines. (open access)

Valve for explosive-engines.

Patent for an improved valve for use in explosive engines which lists the movements of various parts in order to allow air and fuel to mix and explode.
Date: February 2, 1914
Creator: Ray, Albert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Picture Display Machine (open access)

Picture Display Machine

Patent for machines that display advertising machines that will rotate in the advertisements it displays.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Osborne, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Bath Apparatus (open access)

Electric Bath Apparatus

Patent for device that allows an electric bath to be taken despite varying degrees of current intensity.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Lowe, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Filtering Gas Burner (open access)

Air Filtering Gas Burner

Patent for device that helps prevent air from choking burners when used in cooking.
Date: February 6, 1917
Creator: Parks, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Key Tag (open access)

Hotel Key Tag

Patent for key tag.
Date: February 6, 1917
Creator: Rosenfield, Clarence
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard Doors and the Like (open access)

Guard Doors and the Like

Patent for improved guards for doors.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flush-Valve Attachment. (open access)

Flush-Valve Attachment.

Patent for an attachment to a flush valve that will prevent the bowl from overflowing when flushing.
Date: February 3, 1914
Creator: Lupton, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scissors Hanger (open access)

Scissors Hanger

Patent for scissors hangers for sales people in stores that provides a pair of hooks that is "depending from a shank and connected by an arched guard strip" (lines 15-16) that forms a scissors holding element. The scissors hanger will also have a plate metal body that allows the hanger to be attached to the clothing of the wearer.
Date: February 8, 1916
Creator: Walker, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsable Carrying Crate (open access)

Collapsable Carrying Crate

Patent for carrying case that can be folded up to be put away when unused.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Bomar, Thomas B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Razor-Sharpening Machine (open access)

Rotary Razor-Sharpening Machine

Patent for a razor-sharpening device that will be compact and simple to produce.
Date: February 17, 1914
Creator: Herring, Charles M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie Securing Device (open access)

Bale Tie Securing Device

Patent for device that will replace destroyed bale ties.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Level and Water-Quality Data From Observation Wells in Northeast Texas (open access)

Water Level and Water-Quality Data From Observation Wells in Northeast Texas

This Report presents quantitative and qualitative information concerning ground water of Texas, from observations in wells of 20 county areas in Northeast Texas by Texas Water Development Board and U.S Geological Survey.
Date: February 1976
Creator: Taylor, Howard D.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Derailing Block dated October 1, 1918 (open access)

Derailing Block dated October 1, 1918

Patent for new and improved detailing rocks for railroads. What makes this unique is that the clamp can be quickly and effectively clamped to railroad tracks.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Samuel Harvey Garrett & Joseph Owen Staude
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History