Resource Type
Collection
Counties
Decade
Month
67 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Results:
1 - 24 of
67
next
Improved Side-Saddle.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 26, 1870
Creator:
Smith, Fenwick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Tooth
Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
Date:
July 12, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps.
Patent for an improvement in postage or revenue stamps. Patent for postage or revenue stamp "composed of two superposed sheets or layers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back". Patent for postage and revenue stamps that cannot be re-used.
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Beaumont, David G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy for Folding Beds.
Patent for a new and improved canopy for folding beds. This design "will automatically fold up within the bed when the same is closed, and will similarly open out with the opening of the bed without any other attention than the proper arrangement of the folds of the mosquito or fly netting" (lines 21-25). It consists in "an automatically raising and lowering canopy consisting of a raising-frame having vertical bars pivoted to the bed at the bottom and a horizontal connecting-bar at the top, a canopy-top frame pivoted to the bed-casing, having side bars and a horizontal connecting-bar, and couplings" (lines 13-19).
Date:
July 19, 1892
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and efficient car coupling that easily couples by impact, and can uncouple without going between cars.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder.
Patent for a new and improved book holder. This design "consists in the peculiar construction of the main frame or case provided at or near one end with a slot or opening to expose a portion of the blank paper, and a clamping device to hold the copy-slips, and at its opposite end with a tubular instrument and pen-wiper receptacle" (lines 21-27).
Date:
July 24, 1883
Creator:
Gerard, Alonzo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Gun
Patent for an improvement in a "battery of guns, and has for its object the operating of any one of the guns by the recoil of another and in succession as long as may be deemed necessary" (lines 7-11).
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Greer, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "relates to improvements in the class of washing-machines commonly known as 'cylinder washing-machines,' and has for its object the production of a machine which will operate thoroughly and expeditiously, and without injury to the fabric, while at the same time it is light and inexpensive in construction and simple in operation; and with these ends in view the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-20).
Date:
July 7, 1885
Creator:
Ekman, Axel F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Eyeglasses.
Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
Date:
July 9, 1878
Creator:
Hawkes, Albert K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Hydralic Cement
Patent for invention is to utilize in rejected hydraulic matter such as decomposed limestone.
Date:
July 7, 1885
Creator:
Dimelow, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nail Driving Tool.
Patent for a new and improved nail-driving tool. This design consists, "with the shell of the tool formed with recesses and a guide-groove . . . the driving-bar provided with notch, die, and roller, spline guided in the groove of the shell, and the returning-spring, of the levers having toes, the former of said levers bearing normally upon the roller, the spring secured to said shell, bearing by its ends upon the ends of the said levers, and the magazine obliquely attached to the shell, provided with an opening and a spring-closing device" (lines 32-43).
Date:
July 15, 1890
Creator:
Brady, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stem Winding and Setting Watch.
Patent for a new and improved watch. This design "has relation particularly to an improvement in mechanism for winding and setting the watch, so that the 'movement' may be rendered interchangeable for application to a case, whether arranged for a hunting-case watch or an open-face watch. In watches as commonly constructed a different arrangement is made for the winding and setting mechanism for a hunting-case watch from that of one having an open face" (lines 12-21).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Heidbrink, Bernard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie.
Patent for a new and improved railway-tie. This design "is to produce a simple and inexpensive tie which may be easily secured in a road-bed and to which the rails may be solidly and conveniently fastened and which is also adapted to be used in connection with wooden sleepers, being constructed so that it may be easily placed in position between wooden sleepers without tearing up the rails" (lines 9-16).
Date:
July 26, 1892
Creator:
Budington, Albert G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Steam Engine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary steam engine. This design "first, provide[s] a novel form of valve for regulating the induction and eduction of steam to and from the cylinder; second, [it] provide[s] novel devices for reversing the movements of the rotating pistons; and, third, [it] provide[s] novel combinations of the parts of which the engine is composed"
Date:
July 19, 1881
Creator:
Cross, David L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Register for Barber's Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved barber's chair. This design relates to certain improvements in registering devices for barber-chairs, and has for its object to provide means whereby a correct tally can be kept of the persons shaved and the number of hair-cuts which have been performed during the day, week, or month. . . . [The] invention is only applicable to the style of barber-chairs that have a tilting motion backward and forward, for the purpose of more conveniently placing the person when being shaved or having his [or her] hair cut" (lines 10-21).
Date:
July 31, 1883
Creator:
Lane, Fernando G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved fan attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the sewing-machine table and the upright of the fan-supporting frame, of the triangular base provided with a rubber-covered base hinged to a sleeve adjustably fitted upon said upright" (lines 111-115).
Date:
July 2, 1889
Creator:
McComas, Arthur W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan for Rocking Furniture.
Patent for a new and improved fan for rocking furniture. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the fan-supporting frame . . . the fan adjustably journaled to the bar, and the holding forks pivoted to uprights of the fan pivoted to the ends of the horizontal arms of the frame, all arranged to form a set of fans for front and rear service" (lines 94-100).
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grubber.
Patent for a simple and durable grubber that has "a frame preferably carrying a caster-wheel at front, guiding-handles at rear, vertical cutting knives or shares at its sides, penetrating shares or points at the lower ends of said knives, and a transverse or horizontal knife or share at rear of said points, preferably in substantially the same plane therewith, and adjustable mounted to be tilted or inclined out of the horizontal and adjusting handles for the transverse share" (lines 20-30).
Date:
July 16, 1895
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door check. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheel provided with annular offsets and journaled in a movable bearing, the brake, and the spring, of the sheath provided with vertical grooves for the U-shaped bearing" (lines 54-58).
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Rigging for Railway-Cars.
Patent for a draft-rigging for railway-cars that consists of a metal plate in an inverted U-shape, with its legs doubled upward and attached to the middle sills of the car, and the option of attaching a coupler to the plate. The plate legs can receive a king bolt ransom.
Date:
July 2, 1895
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4695
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: Commissioners' Court of Travis County has no authority to construct cattle guards on public roads, and related matter.
Date:
July 11, 1942
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-325
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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Comptroller to pay a University of Texas professor who holds, at the same time, a teaching position in the Austin Public Schools.
Date:
July 31, 1947
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-725
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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a family relationship is necessary in order to claim a homestead exemption from the ad valorem tax, and related question.
Date:
July 19, 1966
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History