Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Seeder. (open access)

Cultivator and Seeder.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator and seeder. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame and plows, the hopper supported on the frame, and the oscillating agitator or stirrer in the bottom of the hopper, having a gear of the wheel-axle having an eccentric, the ring or strap embracing the eccentric and having a rod, and the rocking segment having a tubular arm receiving the rod to be oscillated thereby" (lines 73-81).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for an improvement in the construction and design of baling presses.
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree. (open access)

Whiffletree.

Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a whiffletree formed of a single metal plate having the perforations and bent to form a hollow tree, the hooks and ring having the enlarged perforated ends, and the rivets" (lines 91-95).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Fastenings. (open access)

Improvement in Hame-Fastenings.

Patent for improvements in economical and durable hame-fastening.
Date: July 30, 1878
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3847 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3847

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: May the Commission recognize a consolidation of leases made prior to June 5, 1941, in the Pittsburg Field, Camp County, Texas, and grant a tolerance allowable to said consolidated tract or is it precluded from doing so because of its order of June 5, 1941, forbidding the combination of leases in order to obtain tolerance?
Date: July 20, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. This invention is designed to destroy boll weevils by using blowers and agitators that send the boll weevils to receptacles filled with liquid. Illustration included.
Date: July 7, 1908
Creator: Vickers, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tripod. (open access)

Tripod.

Patent for a tripod, which when folded up can be used as a walking stick.
Date: July 12, 1910
Creator: Boyd, John D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: Upper East Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Upper East Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: July 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History