Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-460 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-460

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: The authority of the Texas National Guard Armory Board to sell property located at Waco and Houston, Texas.
Date: June 23, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Preserving Compound (open access)

Wood-Preserving Compound

Patent for a new wood preserving compound to protect wood from bugs and prevent decay.
Date: June 23, 1908
Creator: Percival, Herbert Elmer
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners. (open access)

Improvement in Vapor-Burners.

Patent for an improvement in vapor burners used in self-generating gas burners.
Date: June 23, 1874
Creator: Sawyer, Frederick A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double Acting Pump (open access)

Double Acting Pump

Patent for a double action pump. "This invention relates to improvements in double-acting pumps; and its object is to provide a vertical double-acting pump in which provision is made for automatically exhausting the air from the upper portion of the piston-chamber" (line 11-16) illustration included.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Hall, S. N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum. (open access)

Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum.

The production of chewing-gum will become much simpler with the improved patent of chewing-gum.
Date: June 23, 1877
Creator: Cotter, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off Valve. (open access)

Cut-Off Valve.

Patent for a cut-off valve meant to improve shut-off valves with "valve-plugs mechanically actuated by rotary valve-stems provided with cranks or eccentric pins which loosely engage the valve-plugs and serve to shift the latter longitudinally to or from the valve-seats when the stems are rotated" (lines 9-14).
Date: June 23, 1895
Creator: Melvin, Josiah W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History