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Combined Tent and Bed.
Patent for improvements in the construction of a combined folding bed and tent.
Date:
June 19, 1883
Creator:
Perez, Mitchel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Machine
Patent for "that class of brick-machines usually termed 'dry-press machines,' in which clay is taken from the bank and passed into molds in a revolving wheel" (lines 15-19) and "consists more particularly in the construction of details and combination of parts" (lines 23-25) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1880
Creator:
Johnson, Richard M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriting machines with the aim of providing "a machine of simple and durable construction, capable of use for the ordinary purposes to which type-writers are applied, but especially adapted and designed for typewriting upon blank books, thereby facilitating the making of official records and producing records that are more legible and compact than it is possible to obtain by handwriting" (lines 11-18).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Borden, William J. & Johnson, Jahu W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Forming Cotton-Seed Meal Into Cakes.
Patent for "an organized machine adapted to compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removing to the press which expresses the oil from the meal, and to carry said cakes from the point where they are compressed to a point or points in convenient proximity to the press or presses which express the meal" (lines 8-16).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Price, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design "is to provide a spring-washer of great stiffness and strength, which, when applied to a bolt beneath a nut, serves to prevent the latter from turning, and also acts to firmly hold the parts of a rail-joint after there has been some wear thereof, thus keeping the bolts from becoming loose and rattling from such wear" (lines 13-20).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Campbell, Eli F.; Noble, Laroy C. & Howe, Milton G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signal.
Patent for a new and improved railroad signal. This design consists in "[a] continuous electric conductor extending beside a railroad, a contact-maker borne by a train, an electric galvanic battery, a stationary transmitter, and a train provided with transmitting and receiving instruments on two or more members of the train and connected with the electric circuit in multiple arc . . . whereby a message can be sent to each member simultaneously" (lines 8-17).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Armstrong, James Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow with a convex moldboard and a landside, or shoe, which in combination acts as a turning plow and subsoiler.
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Kennedy, George Finlay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the link out from the end of the draw-head" (lines 7-17).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Appell, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7233
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 Article 827a, Section 8, Texas Penal Code, or Article 1085a, V.A.C.S., Texas, can the City of Houston, based upon an engineering and traffic investigation showing such speed to be reasonable and prudent, legally some such freeway for maximum speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour and related question.
Date:
June 15, 1946
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-55
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, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court to purchase liability insurance covering operation of Harrison County Municipal Airport.
Date:
June 17, 1953
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-458A
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: Whether or not an interest owned by the Federal Land Bank of Houston, in production of oil, is subject to the production tax provided for the Article 7057a, V.C.S. and the regulation pipe line tax provided for by Article 6032, V.C.S.
Date:
June 27, 1958
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1358
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: Whether the Board of Regents of the University of Houston may legally commence, prior to September 1, 1963, to construct a Student Activities Building and related questions under the facts submitted.
Date:
June 21, 1962
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1176
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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May Harris County require performance an payment bonds from contractors doing work on contracts not in excess of $25,000.
Date:
June 7, 1978
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-1177
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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Jurisdiction of Texas Water Commission regarding approval of plans for the construction of drainage facilities in Harris County Flood Control District.
Date:
June 7, 1978
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 709, Chapter 715
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 524; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 886, Chapter 728
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 528; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 960, Chapter 244
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the powers of the Central Harris County Regional Water Authority.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2418, Chapter 321
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the territory, board of directors, and powers of the North Harris County Regional Water Authority.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2670, Chapter 543
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to validating certain acts and proceedings of Harris County Improvement District No. 5 and to the boundaries of the district.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3843, Chapter 862
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to excluding certain territory from the Harris County Road Improvement District No. 2.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3857, Chapter 358
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Near Northside Management District.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3862, Chapter 865
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to temporary directors and the continuation in existence of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 510.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History