Bed and Cylinder Printing-Machine. (open access)

Bed and Cylinder Printing-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed and cylinder printing machines for "operating and controlling the motion of the bed-plate thereof" (line 11 - 13).
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Murray, George T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus. (open access)

Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.

Patent for a rotary expansion bit for use with well-drilling apparatuses. The bit can be adjusted without removing the well tubing, and can drill a hole large than the tubing in order to insert casing sections.
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Sloan, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Articulating Plate (open access)

Articulating Plate

Patent for "new and useful articulating plate" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: April 11, 1900
Creator: Driskill, T. F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Press and Feeder (open access)

Automatic Cotton Press and Feeder

Patent for an automatic cotton press and feeder operated by fluid pressure. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick Bernard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Buckle and Hook (open access)

Combined Buckle and Hook

Patent for a combined buckle and hook. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Green, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuse for Shells. (open access)

Fuse for Shells.

Patent for a new and improved shell fuse. This design "relates to that type of percussion-fuses wherein a fuse-tube is secured in the point or end of a shell and contains a plunged connected with a friction-wire embedded in the fulminate in such manner that when the flight of the shell is suddenly arrested the friction-wire is drawn forward by the plunger, thereby igniting the fulminate and setting fire to the powder-charge for bursting the shell. The objects of [the] invention are to . . . provide novel means which not only insure bursting of the shell, but avoid premature bursting at the muzzle of the gun" (lines 8-48).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Phillips, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed Trough. (open access)

Feed Trough.

Patent for a new and improved feed trough. This design "is to provide a portable feed rack and trough adapted to hold a quantity of feed and to discharge the same as is found necessary" (lines 10-13). It consists in "a platform mounted on runners and provided at its sides with troughs, bins arranged at the ends of the platforms and provided at the lower ends of their sides with openings" (lines 99-102). It further consists in "slides arranged in . . . recesses and adapted to vary the size of said openings, strips arranged on the outer edges of the inclined bars, and set-screws connecting the strips" (lines 3-7).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Anderson, John Stow
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1039 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1039

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: Under the facts stated, whether the Corsicana Independent School District is entitled to the 1959 taxes collected by the County Tax Assessor-Collector on the territory added to it by the County Board on August 28, 1959, and related questions.
Date: April 12, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-595 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-595

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 Navarro County can spend tax money to maintain dams constructed in Navarro County by the Navarro-Hill Soil Conservation District.
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-557 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-557

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: The applicability of the designation "employees of the Government of the United States" to employees of Navarro County Rural Electrification Authority.
Date: April 28, 1948
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Header. (open access)

Header.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Headers," including illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1917
Creator: Pritchett, William V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
COTTON CHOPPER (open access)

COTTON CHOPPER

Patent for a new type of cotton chopper that has the ability to be adjusted in the vertical to make for faster cotton cutting. This is a simpler design making it cheaper to make and easier to repair.
Date: April 23, 1914
Creator: Fultz, Deck B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Producer. (open access)

Gas Producer.

Patent for improvements to gas producers of the type in which combustible gases are evolved from coal, lignite, etc., during the incomplete combustion thereof.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket (open access)

Well Bucket

Patent for Improvements in well buckets. The bucket has an inlet valve at the bottom and an air escape valve at the top that permits air to escape freely while preventing the entrance of dirt and extraneous matter to the interior of the bucket.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Reese, Samuel L. & Reese, Samuel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Occurrence, Availability and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 1 (open access)

Occurrence, Availability and Chemical Quality of Ground Water in the Cretaceous Aquifers of North-Central Texas: Volume 1

Report on the quality and availability of ground water in the cretaceous aquifers of north-central Texas. Includes maps, hydrographs, rainfall data, pumpage, and more.
Date: April 1982
Creator: Nordstrom, Phillip L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Apparatus (open access)

Well Drilling Apparatus

Patent for a well drilling apparatus. This invention applies to the drilling of oil wells. Illustration included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Milliron, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine. (open access)

Type-Writing Machine.

Patent for a type-writing machine that allows the spacing mechanism to operate in conjunction with other parts so that the paper-carriage releases and return the paper automatically at the end of the line. The springs automatically release and return to action with each release.
Date: April 16, 1895
Creator: Butler, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Index and Trial-Balance. (open access)

Index and Trial-Balance.

Patent for improvement in indexes and trial-balances by using removable spring-strips to hold all the papers together in one place and can be easily remove when needed. Illustration is included.
Date: April 2, 1901
Creator: Templeton, Allison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Rail-Lubricators (open access)

Improvements in Rail-Lubricators

Patent for "a lubricating apparatus for use on street and other cars for lubricating the track when the car rounds a curve" (lines 8-11) including list of parts and illustrations.
Date: April 27, 1910
Creator: Freeman, Frank S. & Doke, Fred L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vest and Drawers Holder (open access)

Vest and Drawers Holder

Patent for a vest and drawers holder. Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Lustig, Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Well-Drilling Machines (open access)

Coupling for Well-Drilling Machines

Patent for coupling for well-drilling machines.
Date: April 14, 1903
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Crossing. (open access)

Railroad-Crossing.

Patent for a railroad crossing that has tracks, which make less noise when it is crossed by a train than previous models.
Date: April 25, 1911
Creator: Blankinship, William Asbury & Copeland, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Attachment (open access)

Rotary Attachment

Patent for an attachment for rotary well drilling machinery meant to "provide means for automatically gripping a pipe when being raised to prevent such pipe from slipping back while the lifting tools are being lowered for such lifting" (lines 13-17)
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History