Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device. (open access)

Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.

Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hood, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone (open access)

Artificial Stone

Patent for artificial stone.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Steger, Virge
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cement Plaster Kettle (open access)

Cement Plaster Kettle

Patent for a cement plaster kettle. This "invention is an improvement in kettles for cooking gypsum in order to convert the same into cement-plaster" (line 8-10). Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Malone, Charles Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Recutting Files. (open access)

Apparatus for Recutting Files.

Patent for a new and improved file re-cutter. This design consists "[i]n an apparatus for recutting files by electro-chemical action, the dialectric plates and the carbon plates having their upper ends attached to said non-conducting plates, whereby the files to be recut are disposed between the carbon plates when in the solution" (lines 76-82).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Emley, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler. (open access)

Car-Coupler.

Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Williamson, John A., JR.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake. (open access)

Car Brake.

Patent for a new and improved car-brake. This design consists in "brake-shoes [which] are jointed by pivots to brake-blocks of the usual form, which are suspended from the truck-timbers by suitable suspending links or clevises, so that they may have a free longitudinal movement when acted upon by the actuating mechanism, and said blocks and brake-shoes are separated by transverse brake-bars, in order that they may be kept truly in-line with the car-wheels at all times" (lines 16-25).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Greer, John William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 21, Number 25, Pages 2855-3088, April 5, 1996 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 21, Number 25, Pages 2855-3088, April 5, 1996

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 5, 1996
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for "reciprocating churn-dashers with rotary heads." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1891
Creator: Sterling, Isaac F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists "[i]n a trap comprising a well having ingress-openings in diametrically-opposite sides, the combination, with a cage constructed to move vertically in the said well, of plates mounted in ways and constructed to slide past and cover the said openings and having connection with the cage to counterbalance the same" (lines 86-93).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: McLeod, Charlie Mike
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells. (open access)

Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.

Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Brown, Frank O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design utilizes "a draw-head, formed with the usual flaring mouth, and interior cavity. . . . the interior of the draw-head is narrowing from the mouth to the center of the pin, and widening from the latter backward. The object of this construction is, that it directs the entering link to the pin, and increases the power of resistance of the latter to the strain" (lines 23-33).
Date: April 5, 1881
Creator: Nuckols, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 16, Number 26, Pages 1949-2028, April 5, 1991 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 16, Number 26, Pages 1949-2028, April 5, 1991

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 5, 1991
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 25, Pages 2333-2437, April 5, 1994 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 25, Pages 2333-2437, April 5, 1994

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 5, 1994
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 272, Chapter 5 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 272, Chapter 5

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the appointment of bailiffs for the 97th Judicial District.
Date: April 5, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 190, Chapter 4 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 190, Chapter 4

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to sales and use tax information provided by the comptroller of public accounts to certain municipalities.
Date: April 5, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 35 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 35

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives honoring the Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association for enhancing the educational experience of its membership.
Date: April 5, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0314 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0314

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a junior college district's statutorily defined service area is extended when the district provides services outside that area.
Date: April 5, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0315 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0315

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the municipality that limits fees for police-initiated nonconsent tows must comply with Transportation Code section 643.204 (RQ-0281-GA)
Date: April 5, 2005
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1033 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1033

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 seven day waiting period provided by Section 6 of Article 8306, V.C.S., to workmen's compensation insurance on county employees.
Date: April 5, 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1034 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1034

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: Legality of funeral service policy "plan" of the American National Insurance Company.
Date: April 5, 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 8, Number 24, Pages 1101-1148, April 5, 1983 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 8, Number 24, Pages 1101-1148, April 5, 1983

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 5, 1983
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 10, Number 27, Pages 1113-1168, April 5, 1985 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 10, Number 27, Pages 1113-1168, April 5, 1985

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 5, 1985
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0766 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0766

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a city manager of a general-law municipality may simultaneously serve as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district whose boundaries contain the municipality (RQ-0828-GA)
Date: April 5, 2010
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History