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Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring
Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date:
May 12, 1917
Creator:
Annan, Alfred H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder
Patent for a new "Cotton-Gin Feeder, Drier, and Cleaner" (line 6.) for the purpose of disintegrating "dry, and clean damp and dirty seed-cotton" (lines 10-11).
Date:
May 12, 1900
Creator:
Brown, Charles William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trunk.
Patent for a trunk that is usual except for its multiple trays, "a series of levers connecting the trays, and a second series of levers connecting the first-mentioned series of levers with the trunk-lid" (lines 56-59). The levers raise the trays and move them outward, and they can lock in place.
Date:
May 12, 1896
Creator:
Giraud, Paul
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Feeding Mechanism
Patent for a mechanism designed to cleanse cotton of dust or other foreign particles or objects before being fed. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. This is an improvement over previous gins. The invention uses air blasting methods and dispenses with brush drums. Illustration included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Track Sweeping and Oiling Attachment for Street-Cars.
Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When “the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean.” (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Nesmith, Robert Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4285
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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Are the properties, the title to which passed to the City of Dallas under the Will of Dr. W. W. Samuell, exempt from taxation?
Date:
May 12, 1942
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History