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Automatic Automobile-Top.

Description: Patent for an improvement on automatic automobile-tops. The primary objective is that when in inoperative positions, the actuated drum neatly appears as a weather proof roll. Another objective is to provide side curtains so that the vehicle may be closed on all sides.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Montroy, Phiip A.

Baggage Check and Clasp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baggage check and clasp. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a check, a direction-plate, and a clasp for securing said parts to an article of baggage" (lines 18-21).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: McLeary, James Harvey

Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.

Description: Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) … more
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morawetz, John

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that part or portion of the mechanism usually termed 'link-lifters;' and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the link can be lifted and caused to enter the draw-head of an approaching car by the operator when standing alongside the stationary car" (lines 7-14).
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Small, Henry

Chiropractic Table

Description: Patent for use by chiropractors in their manipulations of the human body, and has for its object the provision of a table or attachment to a table including simultaneously movable head and abdomen supports. The invention has been designed which embodies a head rest, chest support, and abdomen support all mounted upon a single hinged member which will automatically adjust itself to the patient laying upon the table, spring means being provided for opposing the movement.
Date: November 1, 1921
Creator: Lege, John H.

Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.

Description: Patent for a cotton cleaning and condensing machine for cleaning cotton lint and forming it into bats of standard size. Also equipped with a fire-safety mechanism that immediately turns off the machine.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar

Cotton Retainer or Dog

Description: Patent for improving a tool (dog) used in the operation of processing cotton bales. The (dog) tool does not require the replacement of other tools in cotton processing.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Cameron, Theodore R.

Display-Counter.

Description: Patent for a grocery display counter that has drawers at the back and transparent containers that enable customers to view merchandise from front and side.
Date: September 1, 1914
Creator: Friedrich, Edward

A Financial Model for the Edgewood Independent School District: Volume 1

Description: Report on a study to design a mathematical model reflecting relationships among factors that affect economic planning for schools: "[This] final report presents the results of the critical analysis of data, the mathematical and statistical relationships among the variables, the computer program, the results of the consideration of a limited number of alternatives, and the results of an example scenario" (p. 4).
Date: March 1, 1971
Creator: Prevost, R. John; Benjamin, Arlin J. & Hawkins, Thomas E.

A Financial Model for the Edgewood Independent School District: Volume 2. FIMOD Program Users Manual

Description: Part of a final report regarding a financial model meant to reflect various factors inherent in school system budgeting, generated through the use of a FORTRAN computer program, Financial Model (FIMOD). "This manual is designed to assist the user in the use of FIMOD. It contains comments with respect tot he program characteristics, input procedures, output reports, and program object time diagnostics. A sample problem is also included" (p. 1)
Date: March 1, 1971
Creator: Marshall, Marvin D. & Parr, Van B.

Gearing

Description: Patent for gearing for a flying machine. This gearing will allow for two independent drive shafts to work with tow independent engines to allow both engines to connect to either or both draft shafts.
Date: April 1, 1913
Creator: Herrmann, Ernst W.

Hamper.

Description: Patent for a hamper that transports post, laundry, baked goods, etc. The hamper is compactly collapsible for easy storage.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Hill, Edwyn

Horse Power.

Description: Patent for a new and improved "horse power" (engine). This design "convert[s] the force expended by the horse—in pushing as well as in pulling—into power by the use of a solid shaft turned by the revolving platform and working inside of a sleeve-shaft, which is turned by the lever. . . . by means of which all the force expended by the horse is utilized" (lines 11-18).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: Tumey, Charles Henry

Large woody debris in the lower San Antonio River

Description: This report "investigates the amount and effect of large wood debris (LWD) in the lower San Antonio River by quantifying the wood loading and evaluating the effect LWD might have on bank-full discharge and channel stability. This report describes the study reach, the methods employed, and the results derived for each aspect of the study."
Date: June 1, 2012
Creator: Haschenburger, Judith K.

Mattress-Machine

Description: Patent for "an improved machine for making mattress from lint-cotton and the like materials, which is compressed into a bat, ejected from the press, and in the process of being ejected inserted in the tick" (lines 9-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morgan, John W.
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