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Burglar-Alarm
Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Halstead, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chair-Dowel for Building Purposes.
Patent for a chair dowel for constructing chairs, which puts the whole weight of the chair on top of the columns of the chair rather than the sides.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Harvey, Fred Brown
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle Fastening
Patent for buckles fastenings. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Chapman, Eleanor Moore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for a crude oil burner for heating stoves, which heats the oil to a high temperature to provide faster vaporization of the oil.
Date:
October 11, 1910
Creator:
Patton, William D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine
Patent for Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine offers information about the significance of mixing ingredient benefits. The mixing and cleaning machine ease the process for everyday living.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Stacy, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Applying Dry Hot Air to the Face
Patent for a hot air blowing device for blowing on the face that has adjustable temperature settings.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Smith, William Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Supplying, Heating, and Burning Crude Oil and Air
Patent for an apparatus for supplying, heating, and burning crude oil and air for use in heating stoves.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Weaver, Henry Ellis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner used for fuel.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
Seeger, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chemical fire extinguishers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1898
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Street-Calling Device
Patent for an automatic street calling device for streetcars which says the name of the upcoming street/stop and displays it in the street car.
Date:
October 11, 1910
Creator:
McGee, Richmond M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Show-Case.
Patent for new and useful improvements in combination show cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Sanger, Phillip
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Mechanism For Explosive Engines
Patent for cooling mechanism for explosive engines. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1904
Creator:
Reaugh, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine.
Patent for an improvement on machines that create buttonholes and mark buttonholes. Includes illustrations.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Powell, William J.; Vaughn, William H. & Rose, Isaac E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine
Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Knight, Nute B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cuff-Holder.
Patent for an improved cuff-holder that is simple and inexpensive, and is "adapted to serve as a sleeve button and a cuff support, and capable of read adjustment to enable the wearer to arrange his cuffs as desired, and to show them beyond the coat sleeve to a greater or less extent" (lines 12-16).
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Shaw, Wilber S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin made from spring metal that "automatically adapt[s] itself to lines of different thicknesses, and whereby the pin may be used to retain an exceedingly thin article in engagement with the line as effectually as an exceedingly thick article, the pin being capable of holding a bit of lace and likewise a heavy blanket or quilt" (lines 11-18). It is especially designed for use with metal clothes lines.
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Jones, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter.
Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin and flour sifter. This design "has relation to that class of flour-sifters in which the sifting mechanism is secured at the lower end of a bin or receptacle containing the flour or meal; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device in which the bin is divided in two receptacles opening into the sifting mechanism, and having suitable cut-off slides" (lines 21-29).
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Williams, Robert E. & Trammell, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists "[i]n a harness-buckle, the combination, with the frame, provided with a tongue-bar having two tongues thereon and a tongue-bar having a single tongue thereon, of a clasp-rest and a hinged clasp near opposite ends of the buckle-frame" (lines 77-82).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Daniel, Ellison Armistead
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annunciator.
Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Fouts, Lambert F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forcing Liquids from Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved device for extracting liquids from sealed containers. This design utilizes a bellows apparatus, and "by simply compressing [it] air is forced into the space in the barrel or vessel above the liquid, when the pressure of this air will exhaust the liquid through the faucet at the bottom under pressure" (lines 65-70).
Date:
October 16, 1883
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Machine.
Patent to for a machine to make and count bale-ties, "...to manufacture at small cost machines which will be compact, not taking up much space, and which will e simple in construction and durable" (lines 10-13). It includes an extensive explanation and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1896
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Third Called Session, House Concurrent Resolution 29
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating AAA Texas on opening its new regional headquarters in Irving.
Date:
October 4, 2003
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1315
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: Constitutionality of Dallas County Road Law.
Date:
October 12, 1951
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History