Lemon Squeezer (open access)

Lemon Squeezer

Patent for a lemon squeezing mechanism, designed to be more convenient for convenience store clerks.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Cooper, James A. & Cooper, Joel C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Picking And Separating Cotton from Bolls. (open access)

Process of Picking And Separating Cotton from Bolls.

Patent for a device to remove plant fiber from picked cotton (referred to as "burs" and "bolls"). The device makes the process of cleaning cotton faster and more efficient.
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Meier, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Prints on Metal. (open access)

Process of Producing Prints on Metal.

Patent for a new way to print negatives directly on sensitized metal by dying the print, removing the dye stains, burnishing the "high lights," polishing the dye print and finally lacquering in order to make permanent. This gives the image a bas-relief effect.
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Snow, Philo V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Stand (open access)

Seed-Stand

Patent for a stepped stand having a compartment at each step where seeds may be kept. Illustrations included.
Date: July 13, 1909
Creator: Nicholson, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6662 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6662

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: Method to be employed in making distribution of money in treasury of Dallas County Levee Improvement District No. 6, and related questions.
Date: July 13, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History