Bling Tenon (open access)

Bling Tenon

Patent for a metallic blind tenon. The end of a blind slat to pivot the slat in the frame of the blind. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: Miller, Charles, of Del Rio, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Street Car Sign (open access)

Advertising Street Car Sign

Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: King, Alphonse
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt (open access)

Belt

Patent for an apparel belt. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: Reynolds, Henry J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch

Patent for an improved automatic railway switch based on an earlier model made by the same person. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: McGee, Richard M. & Jones, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Holder (open access)

Coin-Holder

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Holders." (Lines 5-6) illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Wimberly, S. J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder (open access)

Copy Holder

Patent for a copy holder. This device is to hold copy for typewriters, compositors, etc. It also provides a copy holder possessing an adjustable indicating bar. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Newton, Marvin G. & Edwards, J. M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer (open access)

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
Apparatus for Cleaning Bottoms of Ships. (open access)

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
Aparejo (open access)

Aparejo

Patent for more efficient and durable pack-saddle (aparejo) used by United States Army. Casing involves hollow boot-sticks and rubber-encased steel, with better fitting to prevent fatigue of animal.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Keller, John & Titsworth, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Holder. (open access)

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
Car-Replacer. (open access)

Car-Replacer.

Patent for "car-replacers or wrecking-frogs employed for guiding the wheels of a derailed car or locomotive to the rails." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1896
Creator: Hawkins, Robert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears. (open access)

Animal Shears.

Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design consists in "mechanism for imparting a combined reciprocating and edgewise play to the cutting knife or knives in order to cause the teeth of said knife or knives to follow or describe a curved or oval path, and thus insure greater efficiency of operation; to provide for the proper lateral contact of the knives in order to insure their proper action and to regulate the pressure or force with which one knife bears on the other; [and] to provide a peculiar form of cutter-teeth which shall be automatic or self-cleaning" (lines 19-30).
Date: February 11, 1890
Creator: Bechtol, William S. & Bessonette, William T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for "a new and improved car-coupling which is simple and durable in construction and very effective and automatic in operation" (lines 8-11).
Date: February 11, 1890
Creator: Finley, Robert Lee & Harper, Henry Hughes
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 17, Number 11, Pages 1147-1257, February 11, 1992 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 17, Number 11, Pages 1147-1257, February 11, 1992

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 11, 1992
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 6, Pages 685-884, February 11, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 6, Pages 685-884, February 11, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 11, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 11, Pages 989-1070, February 11, 1994 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 11, Pages 989-1070, February 11, 1994

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 11, 1994
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 11, Pages 1549-1693, February 11, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 11, Pages 1549-1693, February 11, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 11, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 12 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 12

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring George Mitchell on the 30th anniversary of the founding of The Woodlands.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 15 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 15

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring the life of U.S. Army Corporal William M. Amundson, Jr., of The Woodlands.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 23 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 23

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring Thomas Clark Brown of Midland on his receipt of the 2004 Permian Basin Petroleum Association Top Hand Award.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 32 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 32

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring the Huff Diary and Wagon Train Project in January 2005.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 38 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 38

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate recognizing January 2005 as National Stalking Awareness Month.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 39 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 39

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring Leonard Reese for his exceptional service to the Texas Legislative Council on the occasion of his retirement as assistant executive director and general counsel with that agency.
Date: February 11, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History