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Convertible Table.
Patent for a supporting device for folding tables or benches that is made up of slide-able pieces that can be folded up into a small area and then locked in place when set up.
Date:
April 9, 1907
Creator:
Richter, Franz Albin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher
Patent for distributing air through cream while "thoroughly" agitating said cream, with brief instruction and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1904
Creator:
Vestal, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press for hay which is more efficient at compressing the hay than previous machines.
Date:
April 7, 1908
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Heater and Radiator
Patent for a combined water heater and radiator. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 16, 1912
Creator:
Wheeler, Mary J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a hoe-supported cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 11, 1911
Creator:
Carter, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Caldwell, Mack
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning and Polishing Apparatus.
Patent for a cleaning and polishing apparatus for sand blasting various objects, such as furniture, which does not require an operator to be watching the operation.
Date:
April 27, 1909
Creator:
Carroll, Samuel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Barnett, James Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. Illustration included.
Date:
April 11, 1905
Creator:
Summerfield, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle "wherein a closed frame or box is employed that is formed with a smooth exterior surface to avoid contact with and injury to the animals on which it is used, and prevent the reins from contacting therewith, and dispensing with the use of a guard thereover; and at the same time producing a secure fastening that is applied to straps without the necessity of the employment of stitches or other modes of fastening" (lines 9-18).
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Monday, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Rack.
Patent for a new and improved bag rack. This design "is to provide a new and improved rack adapted to hold a number of paper bags of different sizes, and also adapted to hold samples of groceries, cards, a ball of twine, advertising books, &c.The invention consists of a bag-rack having at one side a case containing a series of shelves and a transparent front, and of the combination therewith of a superposed twine-case having side compartments" (lines 7-16).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Walker.
Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Lawson, Henry William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.
Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Faucher, George E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5250
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: Is there any violation of Article 4727, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes or Article 577, Vernon's Annotated Penal Code, regarding the purchase of certain real estate from the Texas Discount Company by the City National Life Insurance Company, Dallas, Texas, under the facts stated?
Date:
April 20, 1943
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-241
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: Responsibility of the Juvenile Court of Dallas County to grant medical orders for juveniles in certain circumstances, and related questions.
Date:
April 10, 1964
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-86
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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not the monies collected by the Chief Probation Officer of Dallas County, Texas, for child support in divorce cases under orders of the District Court should be deposited with the County Treasurer upon receipt of the same.
Date:
April 5, 1957
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-631
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: Charter for electrical Mechanics Local Union No. 1 of Dallas County.
Date:
April 19, 1939
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-547
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: Precinct delegates to County Democratic Convention in Dallas County, Texas.
Date:
April 15, 1948
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop.
Patent for a more efficient automatic train stop with a mechanism that uses a connection with the block system used on railways to stop a train when it runs into "the tracks of the danger zone or upon the tracks of the block where the train should be stopped." (lines 16-18)
Date:
April 20, 1915
Creator:
Gramm, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Opener and Cleaner.
Patent for cleaning and renovating cotton and other fibrous materials that are found in the lint that falls from the gin in the regular ginning process.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C. & Garner, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Book-Stub Holder.
Patent for a check book stub holder. This device holds back used check stubs in a check book.
Date:
April 10, 1917
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History