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- Achieve!, December 1990
- Periodic newsletter discussing information related to student drop-out rates, relevant legislative issues, and prevention programs. This issue focuses on mentoring and how it can improve student success.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for a planter attachment that is readily controllable by the operator so as to allow rows or spots in the ground to be replanted. This is accomplished by controlling the flow of seeds from a seed box to a spout and by controlling the distance of the spout from the ground.
- Automatic Fan
- Patent for mechanical improvements in "automatic fans intended especially for use on beds, whether in houses or in sleeping-cars" (lines 7-9).
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a baling press, designed so that the feeding and baling of cotton or straw is performed automatically, Illustrations included.
- Barber's Bottle-Holder
- Patent for a bottle holder used for barbers. Illustrations included.
- Body-Bolster
- Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
- Cartridge Crimper.
- Patent for a new and improved cartridge crimper. This design consists of "tweezers having biting-heads, an interposed core and printing-stamp arranged within said core, a shell-holder surrounding the core, and a trimming-knife" (lines 78-82).
- Centrifugal Pump
- Patent for centrifugal pump design meant to improve upon past models in which pieces of the pump wear out over time.
- Chimney-Jacket
- Patent for a chimney jacket construction for naval vessels. Illustrations included.
- Collar.
- Patent for a collar that can be fastened without the need of a button. It is meant to be attached to any shirt and constructed so that it can stay without a button through a tab system.
- Combined Seed-Planter, Harrow, and Plow
- Patent for "a combined seeder or planter, harrow, and plow, and to simplify the parts, so that they can easily be put together and taken apart and manufactured at little expense" (lines 16-20).
- A Comprehensive Field Guide for Reconfiguration of MSE Reinforcement Around Obstructions
- This document provides guidelines for reconfiguration of earth reinforcements to avoid obstructions found within the reinforced fill during Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall construction. The guidance provided herein isintended to assist Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) design engineers, consultants, MSE wallsuppliers, contractors, and TxDOT field inspectors when selecting alternative reinforcement configurationsto resolve conflicts between design reinforcement layouts and obstructions. This Field Guide places special emphasis on the types of obstructions and MSE reinforcementsthat are most commonly encountered in TxDOT MSE wall construction practice
- Concrete Composition
- Patent for a formulation of waterproof concrete that utilizes lava rocks.
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
- Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 12-12, December 2014
- Newsletter of the Texas Credit Union Department containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to credit unions. Information included is publication deadlines, cybersecurity news, money services businesses, and applications recieved.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for an improved cultivator that utilizes wheels and implements adapted for working in adjacent parallel furrows. The cultivator can be used to remove potatoes and similar crops from the earth.
- Fire-Grate.
- Patent for a simple and efficient fire-grate that is meant "to be set in a wall between two rooms and capable of being reversed to enable either room to be directly heated by a fire" (lines 11-13).
- Focus Report, Volume 77, Number 15, December 2001
- Report on the restructuring of the Texas electricity market, allowing competition between vendors rather than company control of a geographic area.
- Gage for Plows.
- Patent for a new type of gage for a running plow, that can be adjusted for a specific depth
- Gas-Generator.
- Patent for a gas generator "which will be entirely automatic in its action so long as the supply of oil is kept up and thereby render the use of weights and winding apparatus unnecessary." (Lines 21-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Hair-Cut Register
- Patent for a haircut register. Illustrations included.
- Hydraulic Swivel
- Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hydraulic swivels.
- Impact Conference Study Guide 1976
- This study guide contains four parts and an Appendix. The first two parts are aimed at acquainting you with why the Advisory Council wanted to hold an "Impact Conference" in your community.
- Improved Apparatus for Fumigating Plants.
- Patent for improvements in fumigating implements.
- Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
- Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
- Improvement in Fruit-Corers.
- Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
- Mail-Bag Catcher.
- Patent for an improvement to devices that receive mail bags from moving locomotion.
- Mail-Pouch Catcher
- Patent for a mail pouch catcher. Illustrations included.
- Meat-Scale.
- Patent for a meat scale "designed for weighing large pieces of meat while the scale is also adjustable subsequent to determining the total weight of the meat" (lines 16-19) including illustrations.
- Metallic Packing for Pistons.
- Patent for metallic packing for pistons, which is composed of three concentric rings and is designed for internal combustion engines. The middle ring is designed to act as a channel for oil or other lubricants.
- Pipe Wrench.
- Patent for a new and improved pipe-wrench. This design consists in "the handle having the integral L-shaped foot at its end forming the rigid jaw of the wrench, said foot or jaw having its inner face curved, so as to receive and provide a bearing for the pipe, and its outer face at right angles to the handle, and said face being serrated, combined with the C-shaped swinging jaw pivoted at one end to the handle by a single bolt, and having its entire inner face serrated from the pivot-point to the outer end, and the teeth along the outer edge of the handle in close proximity to the rigid foot" (lines 12-24).
- Plow.
- Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the beam, the parallel horizontal arms pivoted to the top and bottom of the beam and projecting beyond the sides of the same, the vertically-slotted brackets secured between the beams at the ends of the same, the cultivator-beams arranged between the upper and lower horizontal arms, and the securing bolts inserted transversely through the beams and the slots of the brackets" (lines 59-68).
- Propeller-Wheel.
- Patent for a propeller-wheel for steam and other vessels. This invention is meant "to provide a propeller by which a maximum speed may be obtained without a proportionate increase in toe motive power employed" (lines 15-18). It doesn't have a lateral resistance of water and does not diffuse water in all directions.
- Railway Rail Tie.
- Patent for a new and improved railway-rail tie. This design consists "of a railway-rail tie provided with a transverse recess, projection, the transverse slots, and the apertures leading from the recesses to the slots, the retaining-blocks fitting in the apertures, and keys working in the slots and adapted to press the retaining-blocks against the flange and web of the rail" (lines 71-78).
- Record-Book.
- Patent for a record book using primary and secondary indexing tabs for improving classification of documents.
- Register-Operating Device for Massage Treatments
- Patent for a device made to deliver massage treatment materials to a barber. Illustrations included.
- Saw Set
- Patent for saw sets that allow for a smoother cut and includes adjustments.
- Saw Set
- Patent for a saw set. This invention is designed to align cutting teeth in a uniform length. Illustration included.
- Screen-Operating Mechanism for WIndow-Screens.
- Patent for a screen-operating mechanism for window-screens. It is meant to hide the mechanism from view and to improve the way the screen is raised and lowered. It also moves the "upper sash in one direction moves the screen in the reverse direction, the construction being such that the motion-transmitting gearing does not in any manner interfere with the use of ordinary window-sashes balanced by weights or springs, or the use of sashes of which the upper one only is movable" (lines 24-30).
- Shave-Register-Operating Device
- Patent for a shave register operating device, designed for barbers to keep a record of customers desiring a shave. Illustrations included.
- Signal.
- Patent for a railroad-signal that "moves automatically with the semaphore in an improved, simple and efficient manner" (lines 17-19).
- Sulfur-Mining
- Patent for improvement on sulfur mining by which "sulfur is fused by a heated fluid forced down into the well to the vicinity of the sulfur deposit and when so fused the sulfur is forced to the surface of the ground through a return pipe" (lines 14-18).
- Sulphur-Mining Apparatus.
- Patent for a thermal solvent based sulfur mining apparatus that is placed in a sulfur mining well. Utilizing thermodynamics, the apparatus has a new way to introduce air or steam into the various parts of the apparatus. It is designed with "simplicity and durability of construction" (lines 49-50).
- Suspended Rotary Fan
- Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in Suspended Rotary Fans." (Lines 6-7) including instructions.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-194
- 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: Review of Attorney General’s Opinion No. V-1049 (1950) in light of Section 46 of the Texas Probate Code as amended by the 57th Legislature and related questions.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-363
- 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 the Legislature may authorize the Water Development Board to extend loans to political subdivisions of the State for conserving and developing underground water or may guarantee bond issues of political subdivisions of the State issued to provide funds for use in developing and conserving underground waters.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-276
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county’s single-employer, self-funded medical benefit plan is subject to certain provisions of the Insurance Code, and related questions (RQ-508)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-460
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of the El Paso County Juvenile Probation Board to enter into contracts or authorize expenditures without the commissioners court's approval (RQ-939)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1
- 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: Legal effects of groundwater conservation district election held in Bosque, Comanche, and Erath counties (RQ-0557-JC)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-2
- 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; Determination of a bail bondsman's bonding capacity with regard to persons held in his county jail on charges from another county (RQ-0560-JC)