Combined Blacking Brush and Blacking Box Holder. (open access)

Combined Blacking Brush and Blacking Box Holder.

Patent for a new and improved combination blacking brush and blacking box holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a blacking brush, of a swinging frame held on the back of the brush, and of devices for holding a blacking-box loosely, so as to be adapted to be rotated in the said swinging frame" (lines 82-86).
Date: April 3, 1883
Creator: Wood, Edmund Lorenzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2981 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2981

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: Application of Article 326q, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, establishing office of Criminal District Attorney, to Eastland County; and related questions.
Date: April 7, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Simons, Silas C.; Clark, Samuel H. & Clark, Louther M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration inlcuded.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Montgomery, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poultry and Animal Fumigating Device. (open access)

Poultry and Animal Fumigating Device.

Patent for a poultry and animal fumigating device that spreads the fumigating substance throughout the animals cage.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Graeffe, Ernst Frederich
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hobble-Arch for Cultivators. (open access)

Hobble-Arch for Cultivators.

Patent for a new hobble arch that laterally adjusts shovel beams of cultivators without stripping shaft threads.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Rutledge, Robert P.; Boland, Randsome G. & Devault, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soldering-Iron (open access)

Soldering-Iron

Patent for a soldering-iron, which is used to feed a "molten solder directly to the point of the iron," and to keep the flow steady.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Rodger, Don E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Planter. (open access)

Peanut Planter.

Patent for improvements to peanut-planters in order to plant peanuts without removing or crushing the hulls.
Date: April 10, 1917
Creator: Little, Thomas Dewitt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Harvester. (open access)

Peanut Harvester.

Patent for a "new and useful peanut harvester" (lines 9-10), with illustrations.
Date: April 27, 1915
Creator: Erwin, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut-Harvester. (open access)

Peanut-Harvester.

Patent for a new, mobile harvesting machine designed to uproot, clean, and pile agricultural products that grow underground, including illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: Green, Zedekiah W., Sr. & Green, Zedekiah W., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History