Device for Making Castings. (open access)

Device for Making Castings.

Patent for "making castings of various kinds, and more especially for making castings for dental use" (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Davison, Hugh M. ; H. M. Davison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake (open access)

Car Brake

Patent for a rail car brake. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Pepple, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting-Machine (open access)

Casting-Machine

Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Cathey, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and Feeder for Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and Feeder for Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a "simple and efficient apparatus for conveying seed-cotton from a wagon or other source of supply, to one or more gins or gin feeders, said apparatus being adapted, at the same time, to thoroughly clean the seed-cotton and to deliver it to the gins or feeders in the desired quantities in a uniform manner, and in loose and uncompacted condition" (lines 14-21).
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Littlefield, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton.

Patent for Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton: "provide a simple, cheap and efficient apparatus for taking seed cotton from a wagon, or other source of supply cleaning it, and delivering it in the desired quantity and in a suitable condition for ginning to one or more gins or gin feeders" (lines 13-18).
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Littlefield, Thomas E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster. (open access)

Caster.

Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: April 19, 1881
Creator: Custer, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7195 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7195

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the Hills County School Board, on its own motion. or on request of the Board of Trustees of Independent District "A", consolidate the entire Common School District "B" and parts of Common School Districts "C" and "D" with Independent School District "A"? and a related question.
Date: April 22, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Generator (open access)

Steam-Generator

Patent for a steam generator for use with hydrocarbon burners.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attatchment (open access)

Plow Attatchment

Patent for "converting walking-plows into riding or sulky plows." (lines 10 & 11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 29, 1905
Creator: Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat. (open access)

Thermostat.

Patent for a thermostat that automatically regulates temperatures and is operated "in conjunction with an electric current or the like" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 28, 1914
Creator: Hinson, Robert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sad Iron Heater. (open access)

Sad Iron Heater.

Patent for a new and improved iron heater. This design "consists of an elliptical iron-receiver adapted to fit within a stove-opening, the upper edge of which is provided with a surrounding flange adapted to rest upon the edge of the opening and thus support the receiver depending below said opening, a pair of openings formed in the top of the receiver, each of said openings being provided at opposite edges with iron handle-receiving pairs of notches, a pin extending from the top of the receiver opposite one of the notches" (lines 90-100).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Thomason, Sue
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter Attachment. (open access)

Seed-Planter Attachment.

Patent for "seed-planter attachments; and it has for its object to provide a new and useful machine of this character adapted to simultaneously plant two rows of corn, cotton, or other seed at any desired distance apart and to also provide means for marking the third row at any width from the planter." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Adkins, Stephen J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ribbon Guide For Type Writers (open access)

Ribbon Guide For Type Writers

Patent for a ribbon guide for type writers. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Dowlen, Connell H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Rake. (open access)

Hay-Rake.

Patent for an improvement on a revolving hay-rake that is simple, economic, and easily manipulated. It can move backwards as well as forward, and the teeth can turn freely. The ground pressure of the teeth can be adjusted.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Lunday, Isaac G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher. (open access)

Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher.

Patent for an improvement in drop-pilots or cow-catchers for street or steam-railways to allow the cow-catcher to stay higher above the track and be dropped in an emergency to catch large objects and prevent them from being trapped under the wheels. The improvement also contains a device for raising and lowering the cow-catcher, a mechanism for operating the brakes and whistle interdependently, and a single lever for the operator to use to control the various mechanisms.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Maxfield, Nelson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History