Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-494 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-494

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, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Gun Barrel City Economic Development Corporation may use Development Corporation Act of 1979, section 4B sales and use taxes to fund a project that does not promote business development.
Date: April 23, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid or Gaseous Fuel Burner. (open access)

Liquid or Gaseous Fuel Burner.

Patent for a fuel burner with a simple design, which is readily taken apart or assembled, and is manufactured at a comparatively small cost.
Date: April 15, 1913
Creator: Vandaveer, Heber Clark & Stoy, Guy Everett
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Padlock (open access)

Padlock

Patent for a padlock. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Greer, Benjamin J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Arrester. (open access)

Horse-Arrester.

Patent for a wagon tongue for horse-drawn wagons that is equipped with a spring triggered device that can be used to put the whole draft of the wagon on the horses bits to stop them if they are running away.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Lambert, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool. (open access)

Wire-Fence Tool.

Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date: April 3, 1906
Creator: Harris, Edwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with an improved "construction of working body churns, to effect a rapid production of butter, and to enable the temperature of the contents of the churn to be readily controlled and regulated to facilitate churning" (lines 11-15).
Date: April 11, 1893
Creator: Robert, Cumberland M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History