79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 111 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 111

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring the silver anniversary of the East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore and the diamond anniversary of the discovery of the East Texas Oil Field.
Date: May 27, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for "a churn dasher to which a rotary movement shall be imparted by the resistance offered by the fluid to the dasher when the latter is given a vertical reciprocating movement in the ordinary manner, the rotary movement being constantly in one direction, irrespective of the direction of the vertical reciprocating movement" (lines 13-21).
Date: May 16, 1893
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roll Box for Cotton Gins. (open access)

Roll Box for Cotton Gins.

Patent for a new and improved roll-box for cotton gins. This design "is to provide for a cleaning of the seed-cotton at its first stage of ginning, and thus prepare the same for a more effectual cleaning at the second stage of the process after the same leaves the saws" (lines 24-28). It consists, "with the gin-ribs and the revolving saws working between said ribs, of an unyielding perforated breast-board arranged in front of said ribs and a supplemental perforated cleaning-board above said ribs opposite said breast-board, forming an inclosed seed-cotton chamber" (lines 73-79).
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Scott, Eugene C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Attachment. (open access)

Cotton-Gin Attachment.

Patent for a cotton gin attachment that cleans and separates the lint before it reaches the machines condenser.
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Scott, Eugene C. & Kelly, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5990 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5990

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the holding of the Court of Criminal Appeals in the case of Adamson V. State 171 S. no. (26) 121, paragraph 14 of this opinion can the Longview Independent School District have its taxes assessed and collected by its own assessor and collector.
Date: May 5, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-630 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-630

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: Authority of the Gregg County Commissioners' Court to least the county hospital.
Date: May 21, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow (open access)

Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow

Patent for a combined grubbing, subsoiling, and turning plow. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1905
Creator: Toler, Henry Wilson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for "means which will rigidly hold the point against independent movement toward the landslide of the plow" (lines 45-47).
Date: May 7, 1901
Creator: Kelly, George Addison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for a rotary engine "that may be made to effectively employ the full expansive force of the steam or other motive fluid in a uniform manner" (lines 12-14). Illustrations included.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Kelly, George A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Exploded Ordnance (open access)

Gas-Exploded Ordnance

Patent for a gas gun. Illustrations included.
Date: May 30, 1911
Creator: Hamilton, Ernest Hubbard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potato Curing Apparatus. (open access)

Potato Curing Apparatus.

Patent for a potato-curing apparatus that includes container that allows air to circulate around inside of it.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Wells, James B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bed. (open access)

Child's Bed.

Patent for a retractable crib and mattress attached to side of bedstead, folding underneath for storage when not in use. When fully extended, allows crib mattress and bedstead mattress to be in the same plane.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Myers, Daniel E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Coating Composition. (open access)

Metal-Coating Composition.

Patent for a metal coating composition to form a protective coating on metals and steel to prevent rust and corrosion.
Date: May 24, 1921
Creator: Ethridge, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History