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- Buckle
- Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
- Toboggan-Slide.
- Patent for a toboggan slide for use in amusement parks that is easily taken up and down and includes guard rails and ant-friction devices to help guide the toboggan down the slide. It also provides a method of easily moving toboggans from one slide to another.
- Locking Device for Lubricating-Cups.
- Patent for a locking device for lubricating cups that prevents the plug from coming out of the cup.
- A Cultural Resources Survey of a Portion of the Proposed Oncor Electric Delivery Killeen Switch to Fort Hood Tap 138 kV Transmission Line Rebuild, Bell County, Texas
- A report on the findings of an archaeological survey of the proposed site of the Oncor Electeric Delivery Killeen Switch to Fort Hood Tap 138kV Transmission Line rebuilding project in Bell County, Texas to determine whether there were any cultural resources in the area.
- Combination-Tool
- Patent for a multi-purpose tool to open barrels and similar closed items, to remove staples and nails in construction, including illustrations.
- Knife
- Patent for a knife used for cutting grass and shrubbery. Illustrations included.
- Vegetable-Cutter.
- Patent for a vegetable cutter that cuts cleanly, rapidly, and with force.
- Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas
- Report studying the central Texas region's water resources, with notes that there has been rapid decline and contamination in the area. The aquifer is also being used faster than it can naturally replenish.
- Bath-Cabinet
- Patent for improvements in hot air bath cabinets in which it can employ for a foot or body bath, and be able to control or regulate the hot air current. (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
- Electric Foot-Warmer
- Patent for a device that uses electricity to provide warmth to a person's feet as well as any other parts of the body. It may be used in and out of a bed, and it may be used as "a light reflector for treating certain diseases by strong rays of light concentrated and applied directly to the body" (lines 17-20).
- Automatic Circuit-Control Apparatus
- Patent for an automatic circuit control that uses electro-magnetics. The invention is primarily used for making or breaking circuits.
- Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer
- Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
- Fish-Grapple
- Patent for a fish-grapple device with parts "embodying prongs or hooks which will engage the fish and prevent its escape" (lines 16-17).
- Automatic gas-lighter
- Patent for automatic gas lighter, designed for igniting the headlights of auto vehicle, the principle object was to attach a simple automatic lighter to any automobile which is cheaper and reliable.
- Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
- Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
- Time-Indicator.
- Patent for time indicators wherein the time noting figures are carried upon rotary disks that are constructed and arranged as to expose the proper time in hours, minutes, and seconds to a face plate.
- Cotton or Hay Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[a] duplex cotton or other press comprising connected pressing-boxes, each having a loose lower platen and platen-supports on its sides, devices . . . for raising said lower platens, a truck for supporting said boxes, traveling wheels or rollers journaled to said truck and having bevel or V-shaped treads or peripheries, a track mounted upon suitable supports and having a V-shaped or recessed top face to receive and guide said wheels or rollers during the reciprocatory movements of said truck and the thereto-connected boxes" (lines 15-27).
- Cotton-Compress.
- Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).
- Cotton-Baling Machine.
- Patent for a cotton-baling machine that compresses cotton between two pressure-rolls and rolls it around a core. This invention improves "the mode of applying pressure to the pressure rolls, and [improves] the manner of mounting the core-roll in position within the compress, and for facilitating the removal of said core-roll; and the elevation therefrom of the compress-roll" (lines 15-21).
- Cotton-Press
- Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).
- Design for a Sprayer Attachment for Washing-Machines.
- Design patent for a sprayer attachment for washing machines that includes a conical base-plate with a circular spout projection at its apex.
- Lock-Hinge.
- Patent for a combined lock and door hinge for a door where it "is automatically locked or held in a set position without special adjustment or manipulation, and by which, by the adjustment of a member provided for that purpose, the door may be locked permanently in any desired position" (lines 12-17). It is especially meant for screen doors, coach doors in railway cars, shutters, &c.
- Wheel Cultivator and Planter Attachment Therefor.
- Patent for an improved wheel cultivator, which includes a planter attachment, a hopper, a seed-dropping and fertilizer distributing mechanism, and covering plows.
- Clothes Line
- Patent for a clothes line. Illustration included.
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
- Casing-Elevator.
- Patent for a casing elevator used to remove casings of various diameters from wells. The main specialty of this invention is the use of hinged sections containing pivoted jaws to clamp around the casings.
- Airship
- Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
- Pump.
- Patent for improvements in pumps especially adapted for deep wells by using different approaches to construct and arrange the strainer, the working barrel, the conical valve seat and other parts to pump the water upward. Illustration is included.
- Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan
- Water plan for Region G (Brazos) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water supply plans for each county and city, recommended water management strategies, drought response plans, and the plan creation process.
- Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume II. Identification, Evaluation, and Selection of Water Management Strategies
- Volume II of the Water plan for Region G (Brazos) including water management strategies, water conservation methods, wastewater reuse, new reservoirs, expansion of use of certain water sources, and water supply recommendations and projects.
- Animal-Trap
- Patent for an animal trap which is to be sprung by the animal when the bait is touched. It is constructed in such a manner that the animal will be instantly killed. The metal parts of the trap are to create a strong and durable trap and to be manufactured at a small expense.
- Powder-Dividing Machine
- Patent for a machine used primarily by pharmacists to divide medicinal powders. Illustrations included.
- Capsule Filler
- Patent for a device that fills capsules with medicine. Illustration included.
- Capsule-Filler
- Patent for a capsule filler which allows a prescriptionist to simultaneously fill multiple capsules with medication. Illustrations included.
- Mode of and Means for Baling Fibrous Materials.
- Patent for a mode of and means for baling fibrous materials, especially materials that can be made into a lap or web. The invention doesn't have the issues that other balers have and uses a core, supported by the base, to wind the material around. The bale it forms is square so it can be easily shipped and the risk of fire is decreased. Caps for the bale are secured before the bale leaves the compress.
- Swing.
- Patent for an improved and inexpensive swing that is foot-operated. The swing is built into a frame, and connects to the frame on two points on each end of the swing.
- Refrigerator or Cooler.
- Patent for a refrigerator that has an "arrangement of parts whereby the articles to be cooled are protected from moisture while the space in which said articles are arranged is inclosed by a film of moisture, which is designed to cool the inclosed atmosphere by evaporation" (lines 11-16). The covering is absorbent and the shelves inside are perforated.
- Finger-Guard for Children.
- Patent for a finger guard to keep children from sucking on their fingers. The device is also easy to construct and inexpensive to manufacture.
- Door Check.
- Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "consists in a disk pivoted on a plate and provided with a notch for receiving the corner of the door, and with a series of teeth with which a pawl engages for locking the disk in place after it has been adjusted" (lines 11-15).
- Soil Survey of Bell County, Texas
- Text describing climate, agriculture, and soils of Bell County, Texas. Accompanied by soil map.
- Thill-Tug.
- Patent for a simple thill-tug that can be easily connected and disconnected, and is strong and durable. It does not use spring latches, and the device attaches to the harness.
- Central Texas College Budget: 2012
- Consolidated budget containing information on the proposed appropriations and expenditures of the Central Texas College for fiscal year 2012, outlined in sections for tuition and fees, consolidated revenue and expenditures, and account details.
- Central Texas College Salary Schedule: 2012
- Salary schedule for Central Texas College during fiscal year 2012 including pay scales for faculty; Europe, PFEC, C&I and Navy staff; exempt professional employees; and non-exempt classified employees, as well as specific salaries broken down by classification.
- Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
- Patent for a new mechanism by which corn planters may be converted into a machine for planting cotton.
- Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.
- Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
- Harvester-Platform and Carrier.
- Patent for a harvester-platform and carrier that carries forward and elevates the grain. It has toothed bars, a framed, a crank-shaft that is connected to the toothed bars, a cross-rod loosely connected to the crank-shaft, and it is pivotally mounted on grain.
- Cotton Cleaner and Feeder
- Patent for an invention to feed cotton into a cleaner. Illustrations included.