CAR - SEAT CLEANER. (open access)

CAR - SEAT CLEANER.

Patent for new and improved car-seat cleaners, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Ridd, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Compound for Eggs. (open access)

Packing Compound for Eggs.

Patent for a mixture of shale dust, gypsum, wood ash, sulfur, borax, saltpeter, and salicylic acid. This compound is to be layered around eggs, fruits, or vegetables for the purpose of preserving them.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pneumatic Lift and Force Pump. (open access)

Combined Pneumatic Lift and Force Pump.

Patent for a combined pneumatic lift and force pump, which is able to reach the inexhaustible supply of water found at the depths of five to forty or more feet in the arid region of Texas and Great Central Valley of Mexico. The machinery perfects the simplicity and economy of construction needed to reach and lift a great volume of water in a short time.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: De Hymel, Franklin Oscar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Soldering-Iron (open access)

Electric Soldering-Iron

Patent for an improved electric soldering iron, "to provide novel means for permitting the flow of solder and for shutting it off" (lines 18-19), including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1913
Creator: Giffen, Frank M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
COTTON CLEANER (open access)

COTTON CLEANER

This is a patent for a Cotton Cleaner. This new cotton cleaner is able to use air to rotate the rotors to then separate the dirty cotton from the clean cotton.
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: Cabrera, Maragarito
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Regulator (open access)

Speed-Regulator

Patent for an inexpensive speed regulator "which can be readily reset manually"(lines 21-22).
Date: May 6, 1919
Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-431 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-431

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: Constitutionality of House Bill 16, relating to appropriation for construction of a building at “HemisFair 1968” in the City of San Antonio.
Date: May 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History