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- 81st Texas Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolutions 9
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to requesting that the Texas Legislature send a letter of congratulations to President Barack H. Obama.
- 82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 175
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate commemorating the 175th anniversary of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
- 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 60
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating Andrew Anderson of Grand Prairie on attaining the rank of Eagle Scout.
- Advertising Clock
- Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1930
- Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1930, activities, finance, public relations, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
- Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
- Patent for a new and improved ice maker. This design calls for "two or more sheets of galvanized iron or other metal set in a tank of fresh water, one on either side of the evaporation-pipes, and held in a position parallel to each other by anchors or yokes that connect them" (lines 15-20). This eliminates the need for strong (ammoniacal) brine and is a faster, more reliable, and less leaky ice-making process than previous ones that used said brine.
- Attachment for Buggy Tops
- Patent for an attachment for buggy tops. Illustration included.
- Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.
- Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
- Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives
- Patent for an automatically adjustable headlight for locomotives or streetcars which rotates when the vehicle is tilted going around a curve to allow the light to shine around the curve.
- Automobile-Top.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in Automobile-Tops." (lines 5-6) and is related to "tops of automobiles having two or more seats." (lines 9-10) includes illustrations.
- Auxiliary Door-Lock
- Patent for an auxiliary door lock, that may be used with any type of door, and that is portable, with illustrations.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
- Battery Connector
- Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the coupling-box or draw-head and spring-pin, of the block, spring, and plate, united together as described, the plate being of suitable size to enter the bore of the draw-head" (lines 4-8).
- Car Seat Recorder.
- Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus and enables the record to be made by slitting the strip when the seat is depressed" (lines 22-33).
- Coffee Urn
- Patent for a coffee urn. This invention is designed to percolate liquid repeatedly through the grounds to increase the strength of the coffee. Illustration included.
- Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone
- Patent for a Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone that combines all of the previous items into one and can be easily and cheaply mass-produced for commercial sale.
- Cotton-Boll Separator.
- Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
- Crossover
- Patent for cross-overs in railways to prevent collisions of trains traveling on intersecting track ways
- Deep-Well Pump
- Patent for a deep well pump. The pump allows for existing well casing can be adapted to support the pump and valves without being removed.
- Draft-Equalizer
- Patent for a draft-equalizer which is an apparatus adapted to be used for, "three draft animals, one pulling against two animals.
- The ECHO, Vol. 89, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 2017
- Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
- Gate Operating and Locking Means.
- Patent for an "invention that relates to new and useful improvements in gates and particularly that class which swing in a vertical plane." (Lines 12-14)
- Grass Destroyer
- Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
- Harness and Saddle.
- Patent for a saddle and harness in which "several parts are united in a secure but detachable manner and which possesses certain other advantages" (lines 27-31).
- Harvesting Sack Supporter.
- Patent for a new and improved harvesting-sack supporter. This design "relates to improvements in supporting devices for harvesting-sacks, being especially adapted for use in corn-pulling, and by cotton-pickers, and its objects are to provide means whereby the sack may be so attached to the picker that its weight will be distributed proportionately over the body of the wearer, and will not strain and tire the back of the person bearing the same" (lines 16-24).
- Holdback for Vehicle-Thills.
- Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and efficient" (lines 12-13) thill. A portion of the harness usually required is not necessary with this thill, and the horse cannot kick an occupant of the vehicle.
- Horse-Detacher.
- Patent for a horse-detacher "which can be readily applied to any buggy, and one which will be adapted for quick and easy manipulation to effect detachment of the shafts from the buggy." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Horseshoeing Device
- Patent for a horseshoeing device that immobilizes the horse's leg in multiple positions for ease of shoeing.
- Hub.
- Patent for a wheel hub that "provides for preventing circumferential movement of the inner ends of the spokes, for bracing the spoke-engaging spider, and for locking the spoke-tightening device for preventing the accidental loosening thereof." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Cultivators.
- Patent for "Improvements in Combined Plow and Cultivator" (lines 4-5), including illustrations.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 2, 2011
- Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Texas for the twenty-eighth day of the regular session of the 82nd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Knockdown Show-Case.
- Patent for a showcase that may be easily taken apart for transportation or storage. It is also easy to replace broken panes of glass, and the parts "mutually brace and support each other" (lines 20-21).
- Metal Railway Tie
- Patent for metal railway tie. Illustration included.
- Oil-Cake Feeder.
- Patent for new improvements in oil-cake feeders to regulate the feed supply to cattle.
- Overalls
- Patent for overalls. Illustration included.
- Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine
- Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
- Piano-Forte Tuning-Pin Lock.
- Patent for a new and improved lock for forte-piano tuning-pins. This design consists "of an elongated or oblong metal plate provided with a slot in a part of its length and having one of its faces roughened into serrations . . . which, together with . . . correspondingly-toothed hooks bolted to said plate, form a clamp to bind two or more tuning-pins of a piano together, to prevent them from turning as a set or independently" (lines 16-25).
- Plant-Supporting Device
- Patent for a simple form of a plant supporting and sticking device for gardeners and agriculturalists, with illustration (lines 10-15).
- Planter Attachment.
- Patent for a seed planter attachment with an easily adjustable shovel.
- Plow.
- Patent for an improvement to the plow by providing a plastic or plastic-like material to help sticky, thick soil and clay to glide over the surface and decrease frictional resistance, including illustrations.
- Portable Concrete Mixer
- Patent for a portable concrete mixer. Illustration included.
- Printing by Lithography
- Patent for improvements in lithography printing that further help reproduce worn or difficult engravings, as well as transfer and make impressions into engravings with slight loss of effect, while also providing a means in which the engraving or stone can be prepared expeditiously and inexpensively. (lines 10-25)
- Railroad Nut-Wrench.
- Patent for a wrench that is used to fix railroad tracks, including instructions and illustrations.
- Railway Crossing
- Patent for a railway crossing. Illustration included.
- Rivet Setting and Displacing Tool
- Patent for a tool for "setting new rivets and displacing defective rivets from buggy bow-sockets" (line 9-10), and it is aimed to be easy to use with efficiency and reliability. The tool is constructed to be "simple, strong, durable and inexpensive construction" (line 16-18).
- Roller Boring-Drill
- Patent for a roller boring drill in which "the cutting rollers are arranged on the drill in a novel manner." Object of invention is to keep the drill centered in the hole to prevent wobbling.