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- Base Ball Game.
- Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a simple and reliable car-coupling that embodies "novel features of construction that adapt[s] said coupling for an automatic coupled engagement with a similar coupling, and that may be safely uncoupled from the side of the car whereon the improvement is secured" (lines 11-16).
- Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator
- Patent for improvements to a Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator used for ore and gravel.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper with two independently operated plows on the front.
- Ditching-Machine.
- Patent for a certain new, useful, and valuable improvement in ditching machines for cutting ditches.
- Door Check.
- Patent for a new and improved door check. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheel provided with annular offsets and journaled in a movable bearing, the brake, and the spring, of the sheath provided with vertical grooves for the U-shaped bearing" (lines 54-58).
- Generating Oil-Burner.
- Patent for improvements in “generating oil-burners” by connecting a combination of tubes, pipes and casings to direct and regulate the oil flows to the burner. It can also control the amount of steam to be discharged to properly effect the burning of the oil. Illustration is included.
- Head or Tail Light for Automobiles.
- Patent for head or tail light for automobiles with adaptations of optical signaling and lighting devices used to make the vehicle and its intended change of drive direction and other traffic signals visible at night. This design also includes indicia, or specific distinguishing marks noting right and left turns.
- Heating or Cooking Stove
- Patent for a heating or cooking stove.
- Identification-Tag
- Patent for metal identification tags with imprinted indicia to keep records of something. The tags are used on bale ties and will replace paper tags due to flammability.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, Tuesday, May 3, 2011
- Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Texas for the 67th day of the regular session of the 82nd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, Tuesday, May 3, 2011 [Continued]
- Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Texas for the 66th day of the regular session of the 82nd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the thirty-fourth day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Oil-Cup
- Patent for the improvement in oil cups adapted for jewelers' use.
- Stringed Instrument
- Patent for "an instrument that may be conveniently supported upon the lap of the player without any supporting-bands, that is of unique and handsome appearance, that is strong and durable, not liable to be injured by ordinary falls, in which the bridge is secure, the neck properly braced, and to give to the body such shape as will increase its resonance, while at the same time preserving the musical sweetness inherent in instruments of this class" (lines 13-22).
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-734
- 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; Appointment of retired judges of apellate courts to active duty on Courts of Civil Appeals.
- Tire-Protector.
- Patent for a flexible metallic tire protector, insuring a tire against injury from tacks, nails, glass, or similar objects which can cut or damage an unprotected tire, designed to be durable, efficient, and easy to construct.
- Tobacco-Pipe.
- Patent for a new tobacco pipe capable of trapping nicotine in a removable bowl to facilitate the cleaning process. The pipe also includes a trap for saliva that prevents any saliva from returning to the smoker's mouth regardless of pipe angle. The pipe is manufactured with minimal parts reducing need for repair.
- Trolley-Pole.
- Patent for a trolley pole, which is extendable and contractible.
- Windmill.
- Patent for windmills by making them self-regulating and "it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices whereby the force of the wind is made to move the wind-wheel and crank-shift backward and turn the vane, and also in the devices for turning the vane at will" (lines 14-18).