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Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine
Patent for convertible mixing and cleaning machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Stacey, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a car coupling that separately joins two train cars together. illustrations included.
Date:
July 6, 1909
Creator:
Dobbs, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Counting Attachment for Type-Writers
Patent for a counting attachment for type writers that provides signals when various word counts are reached.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Walker, Jack L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for Car brake. Improvements in street car brake system which is based on the concept of physical force applied on the fender or apron which in turn forces the shoe on the rim.
Date:
July 15, 1902
Creator:
Brown, Frank O. & Moore, Edward T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Urn
Patent for a coffee urn. Illustration included.
Date:
July 18, 1905
Creator:
Robertson, Cullen Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Switch.
Patent for an electric, switch-operated construction functioning for timer-controlled circuit completions and breaks, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Chappel, James. M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing Device
Patent for an automatic computing device that can calculate the price of goods and be used to take inventory of stock.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Miracle, Meredith W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter.
Patent for a briquet fuel formula made primarily from lignite and other derived products, which is cheaper to produce than other formulas.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Lohmann, August Samuel Frederic
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for "a new and use-ful improvement in churns , and its objects among other things , are to provide a simple device more durable in construction than heretofore and one which is cheap of manufacture, may be readily operated and cleaned, and is adapted to keep contents thereof at a desired temperature" (lines 12-19) including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1900
Creator:
Welke, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine
Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
House, Samuel N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch
Patent for a railway switch that can be opened by a car or engine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 6, 1907
Creator:
McGee, Richmond M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for "useful improvements in combined cotton choppers and cultivators" (lines 10-11) including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Arnold, Willard M. ; W. M. Arnold
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel
Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Thomas, Adelaide M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canning Apparatus
Patent for a boiling receptacle to efficiently boil water while food may be cooked above the boiling water. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 7, 1908
Creator:
Wilson, William Wharton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot
Patent for a coffee pot. Illustration included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Peterman, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Printing Device
Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Barradall, Norborne D. & Bradley, Andrew Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Sheller
Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle Bearing.
Patent for a new and improved car-axle bearing. This design is "compris[ed of] the separable upper and lower sections having the longitudinal grooves on their respective upper and lower sides, the straps fitting in the said groove, and the bolts engaging the said straps and clamping the sections of the box together . . . in combination with the axle having its end fitting within the box, the collar shrunk onto the end of the axle within the box, said collar having the annular flanges, and the block pressing on the collar within the flanges" (lines 73-93).
Date:
July 12, 1887
Creator:
Hawkins, Andrew Jackson & Wilkins, John Walker
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bellows Attachment for Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved bellows attachment for barrels. This design "provide[s] means for securely attaching the bellows to the barrels, so as to exclude the admission of air, except such as is forced in by the bellows; and a further object of the same provides for the shutting off the flow of liquid, as desired" (lines 13-18).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti Friction Journal.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction journal. This design "relates to anti-friction devices adapted especially for hoisting pulleys; and it has for its object to provide a device in which the shaft or axis of the main hoisting-pulley shall be supported or mounted upon the peripheries of wheels of a considerable diameter as compared with that of the hoisting-pulley, whereby the friction may be lessened to the greatest possible extent" (lines 24-32).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Taylor, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved condenser. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a series of condensing-compartments, forming a continuous convoluted condensing-vessel having vertical walls, to be employed in the process of extracting alcohol, essential oils, ether, &c." (lines 18-23).
Date:
July 24, 1883
Creator:
Wilmans, Frederick A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Shading Adjuster.
Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Smith, Earl W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, First Called Session, House Concurrent Resolution 4
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to recognizing October 24, 2003, as Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services Day in Texas.
Date:
July 24, 2003
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-256
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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Dallas County Hospital District, pursuant to Article 4494n, Vernon's Civil Statutes, to expend funds for building and operating a "Crime Lab."
Date:
July 12, 1968
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History