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- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 296, Chapter 793
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the operation of Texas A&M University--San Antonio, including the student enrollment required for operation as an independent general academic teaching institution and supplemental funding of the university.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1853, Chapter 454
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the distribution of assessments charged by Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
- 82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2351, Chapter 524
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the authority of the Bexar County Hospital District to employ physicians.
- 82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2935, Chapter 556
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a court reporter by a criminal law magistrate in Bexar County.
- Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union.
- Patent for an affordable and efficient coupling device for use "on valve rods of internal combustion engines, especially those used in automobiles and aeroplanes or on those motors or engines employing overhead valves and whereby the union or coupling may be readily and securely locked on a valve rod with sufficient resistance to withstand the strain of direct pressure" (lines 14-21).
- Aeroplane
- Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
- Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
- Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
- Artificial Teeth.
- Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
- Attachment for Automobiles
- Patent for a spring motor attachment for automobiles.
- Autographic Register.
- Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
- Automatic Railway Switch Lock
- Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.
- Automatic Telephone-Directory.
- Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.
- Ball-Bearing.
- Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cage or Support for Well-Tubing
- Patent for a well tubing cage which provides support for well tubes so that a second pipe is not required. Illustrations included.
- Combination Tie and Rail-Joint
- Patent for improvement in the safety of tie and rail-joints. Improves the connection so that independent movement of the tie and rail is reduced.
- Composite Lamp-Chimney.
- Patent for a lamp chimney that prevents insects from falling into the chimney and keeps the flame inside the chimney.
- Door Controlled Electric Switch
- Patent for an improved switch attachment that will allow a room, vault, or compartment to be kept lighted when door is open or closed, but may also be shut off when leaving the room.
- East Central Independent School District Academic Excellence Indicators Report: 1993-1994
- Annual report about the overall condition of the East Central Independent School District in San Antonio, providing statistics and assessments for the 1993-1994 school year.
- Economic Opportunities Development Corporation of San Antonio and Bexar County: Planning and Priorities
- A report on the plans and priorities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation of San Antonio and Bexar County based on results from a community survey on October 30, 1970 as part of an application for the Office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program.
- Electrical Testing Device.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in electrical testing devices. The invention provides references to innovative changes that allow for improved high-tension coil and armature testing.
- Electrical Testing Device
- Patent for a device to test electrical circuits for faults which is cheaper to manufacture, easier to use, smaller and more durable.
- Expanding Hub.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in metallic vehicle wheel hubs, including instructions and illustrations.
- Fire Box
- Patent for a fire box. Illustration included.
- Gradometer.
- Patent for a gradometer "which will accurately indicate under the most varying and unstable conditions the inclination and declination at which any moving body is traveling" (lines 10-13). The gradometer is "particularly adapted for use on motor vehicles" (lines 15-16).
- Hoeing-Machine
- Patent for improvements to hoeing machines "as will cause the hoes to cultivate around the particular plant pointed out without it being necessary for the indicator to remain at rest while each plant is being hoed; second, to provide a pair of oscillating disks that cultivate before and behind the plant as they oscillate across the row" (lines 15-21).
- Ice Making and Blocking Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved ice machine. This design consists in "the combination of a non-conductive casing containing a freezing tank having water supply and discharge pipes, a water-tight diaphragm supported in said casing above the bottom of said tank having downwardly-tapered hollows in its upper surface and corresponding upwardly-tapered molds in its under surface, and a refrigerating medium contained within the said casing over said diaphragm and filling the hollows in the latter" (lines 82-91).
- Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Sand-Conveyers.
- Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.
- Lawn-Rocker.
- Patent for a lawn rocker improvement that provides swing and is durable and inexpensive.
- Lock for Automobiles
- Patent for Lock for Automobiles
- Ore Concentrator
- Patent for a "machine for separating ores of precious metals, and particularly to that class of machines known as 'dry concentrators or separators,' used for separating fold ore by means of an air-blast over dry sand, gravel, quartz, etc." (lines 10-15). Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Permutation-Lock.
- Patent for a device of a permutation lock. One of its objects is to improve the permutation mechanism thereof and to provide novel means whereby the combination of the lock may be changed.
- Phonograph-Machine.
- Patent for a new phonograph machine with improvements of sound-box-transversing mechanisms and uniformity of movements, including illustrations.
- Piston Ring
- Patent for improvements to piston rings to reduce leakage through piston grooves, rings, and joints.
- Process of Treating Ores.
- Patent for "an improved method of reducing gold and silver ores and recovering their metals." (Lines 10-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Roller-Distributor.
- Patent for the invention of a roller distributor, or roller cam, that can "provide novel means whereby friction will be reduced" (lines 12-13) through the use of "a novel spring means being employed" (lines 13-14) in certain affordable, widely used vehicles.
- Separator for Secondary Batteries.
- Patent for separators, made of celluloid or similar material, designed to separate secondary or storage batteries in an efficient and affordable way.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0968
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority to use the proceeds of a sales and use tax for a streetcar project in light of certain representations that were made preceding and election to create an advanced transportation district (RQ-1048-GA)
- Thill-Coupling.
- Patent for improvements in thill-couplings by using a combination of forward extension arms, having each near its forward end, circular shoulders, adapted to engage the ends of the shaft-iron; the spring-catch for holding the lever arm in locking position and, for retracting arm when the catch is released. Illustration is included.
- Transplanter
- Patent for a transplanter to move a rooted cotton plant and the soil around it to a different location. Illustrations included.
- Tube-Expander
- Patent for a tube expander for setting boiler tubes in the holes in the tube-sheet, which provides simplicity and improvement of its construction.
- Well-Boring Machine.
- Patent for improved mechanism of well-boring machine in which it “composed of as few parts as possible, which will effectively grip and rotate a drill-rod or pipe containing coupling and reducing - nipples, or composed of length or sections of varying diameters without impeding the end movement or deranging the central position of said drill-rod or pipe, and without delaying the progress of the machine, to adjust or change any part or parts thereof, also to improve the means for gripping the drill-rod or pipe and to eliminate the tendency to split or longitudinally furrow the latter, which would render the same liable to open and twist off when subject to high pressure during the progress of boring.” (Lines 20-34) Illustration is included.