Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant rap designed to catch ants and burrowing insects that are destructive to vegetation. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Fly, Nathaniel D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1165 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1165

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether consultant to private corporation that contracts with the state receives compensation "directly or indirectly" from state funds within article XVI, section 40, of the Texas Constitution (RQ-1872)
Date: April 24, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-52 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-52

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: Whether, in view of the prohibitions, restrictions are reverters in H.B. 6, Chapter 68, 36th Leg.; H.B. 164, Chapter 40, 47th Leg.; and H.B. 492, Chapter 253, 49th Leg., the Glasscock Fill Area, located in Corpus Christi Bay, has reverted to the State and related questions.
Date: April 4, 1963
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shock-Absorber and Brace. (open access)

Combined Shock-Absorber and Brace.

Patent for an improved connection between the shock absorber and brace to "reduce the strain on the front springs of a motor vehicle and to control the rebound incident to the front wheels [...] so that the machine may at all times be under proper control of the steering mechanism" (lines 34-41), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: More, David
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1995 (open access)

Around the Bend, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1995

Quarterly newsletter discussing news and events related to the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program, as well as research and information related to the bays, estuaries, and bayous in the Copano, Aransas, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Baffin and upper Laguna Madre bay systems.
Date: April 1995
Creator: Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Seat. (open access)

Wagon-Seat.

Patent for "a detachable spring or resilient support for wagon seats [...] which may be adjusted for positioning the seat at various elevations" (lines 14-22), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Winslow, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock Stitch Ripper. (open access)

Lock Stitch Ripper.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "relates to an improved combination tool or implement designed to be used in connection with sewing-machines, and combining in a convenient form several instruments which operators on sewing-machines should always have ready at hand" (lines 9-14).
Date: April 8, 1884
Creator: Wheeler, Elijah Harvey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Killing Composition (open access)

Weed-Killing Composition

Patent for "new and useful composition of matter designed for killing and preventing the growth of weeds and noxious grasses, and is particularly designed for killing and preventing the growth of Bermuda and Johnson grasses." (lines 9-14)
Date: April 24, 1912
Creator: Owen, Hillery O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Vine-Rakes (open access)

Improvements In Vine-Rakes

Patent for new and improved Vine-Rakes to use in everyday farming. Uses includes pulling fines from crops and preparing the ground for plowing or digging before planting crops.
Date: April 20, 1875
Creator: Dunn, Joseph W
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Chimney Holder. (open access)

Lamp-Chimney Holder.

Patent for an "improved lamp chimney holder" (lines 12-13) designed to allow a hinged member to light the wick and extinguish the light "instead of raising or removing the chimney" (lines 19-20), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Emmert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Bottom Camp-Bed (open access)

Spring-Bottom Camp-Bed

Patent for an improved, less expensive, and easier to use camp bed granted to William Green Holden.
Date: April 1, 1884
Creator: Holden, William Green
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surgical and Bathing Apparatus. (open access)

Surgical and Bathing Apparatus.

Patent for improvements to surgical and bathing apparatus.
Date: April 23, 1918
Creator: Scroggin, Jethro W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flush-Valve (open access)

Flush-Valve

Patent for a valve for a general flush tank.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Cahill, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scale Alarm (open access)

Scale Alarm

Patent for an improved scale alarm that automatically alerts the user to scales that are not balanced and is unaffected by temperature changes, including illustrations.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Rice, William Jasper
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reamer. (open access)

Reamer.

Patent for a reamer with a hexagonal shaped body and shell, central hub, a series of plates, springs, and metal dogs. Used for reaming well drilling tubes, which are used to drill artesian wells and deep water, and for cleaning out the reamer's own interior.
Date: April 24, 1911
Creator: Sly, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Disk Harrow. (open access)

Disk Harrow.

Patent for novel construction of a Disk Harrow consisting of a wheel-mounted frame which raises and lowers opposite sides independently and frame attached pivotally carrying a gang of harrow disks.
Date: April 7, 1914
Creator: Emmert, Albert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History