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- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator, which is chiefly operated by the fall of a gas-bell.
- Automatic Plow-Foot.
- Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
- Beam-Spring Trip for Cultivators, Plows, &c.
- Patent for the improvement of "the construction of spring trips, and to provide a simple and inexpensive spring trip, capable of being constructed of sufficient strength to enable it to be employed on stirring and breaking plows as well as cultivators, planters and the lighter class of agricultural implements" (lines 12-18) including instructions and illustrations.
- Bulletin on Texas State Finance: 1987, Number 11
- Periodic bulletin analyzing issues related to Texas legislation. This issue focuses on a tax increase.
- Check-Valve
- Patent for improved check values in relation to a boiler of locomotives, to better secure priming and increase forcing power of its injector.
- City of Balch Springs Hickory Creek Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report
- Report on the results of a study for creating a flood protection plan for Hickory Creek in the City of Balch Springs, Texas.
- Cotton-Baling Press.
- Patent for "an improved construction of hydraulic baling-presses, whereby it is designed to provide simple and more durable and reliable presses of this kind than any now in use" (lines 8-12).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a combined cotton-chopper and cultivator.
- Cotton Seed Planter.
- Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists in, first, a hopper having its rear side or board extended downward so as to form the standard or furrow-opener; second, the combination of two endwise adjustable castings provided with shoulders or offsets, and which are made adjustable in relation to each other, and by means of which the quantity dropped is regulated . . . [An object] of [the] invention [is] to extend the rear side of the seed-box downward, so as to form a furrow-opener or standard, to attach the combined seed-box and standard to the two iron beams" (lines 13-28).
- Coupling for Connecting Handles to Tools
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Couplings for Connecting Handles to Tools" (lines 5-7) with description and illustration.
- Cover for Pass-Books
- Patent for a cover for a passbook with a transparent cover to view the book.
- Device for Unscrewing and Withdrawing Pipe.
- Patent for a device for unscrewing and withdrawing pipe from wells, mines, or other similar uses. This tool is attached at the end of a drill stem and threaded in the ordinary right hand direction to unscrew and withdraw.
- End Gate Fastener
- Patent for a new End-Gate Fastener, accompanied by several illustrations of form and function. Specific claims to the End-Gate Fastener include: transverse rods designed to mount device for easy removable and replacement of device on wagons, transverse rods designed for sliding to connect rods inside a wagon or door, associated rods which can be used to restrict outward movement of rods in the fastener when placed under tensions, and the combination of the wagon body with the end gate once the fastener as been installed.
- Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus
- Patent for "a more simple, efficient, and convenient arrangement than has hitherto been known" for fire extinguishers (lines 16-17).
- Flour-Separator
- Patent for "a machine of this class by means of which by a single operation the flour may be separated from the middlings and the tine from the coarser grade of middling-s, thus performing at a single operation that which heretofore has required two separate operations to accomplish" (lines 10-16).
- Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
- Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
- Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
- Patent for an improvement to cotton presses, including an illustration.
- Improvement in Farm-Fences.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in fence including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.
- Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
- Ink-Well.
- Patent for an ink well that can be closed with a non-sticking closure when not in use to avoid "evaporation of the ink" (lines 14-15) and includes illustrations.
- Insect or Worm Destroyer.
- Patent for an insect and worm destroyer that is secured to the frame of a gang or cultivator and both cultivates and exterminates insects, worms, and the like as it moves down each row of plants.
- Internal Combustion Engine.
- Patent for a simplified internal combustion engine that is lighter and more efficient than previous models. It also features detachable and removable parts that will decrease time and cost of repairs, includes illustrations.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Second Called Session, July 29, 2013
- Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Texas for the 7th day of the second called session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Second Called Session, Monday, July 29, 2013
- Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the third day of the Second Called session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Laminated Fabric for Tire-Casings.
- Patent for a laminated fabric for tire casings that reinforces motor vehicle tires to reduce heat exposure and risk of damage. This type of laminated fabric is intended to resist wear and prevent tire blow-outs.
- Liquid-Indicator for Tanks.
- Patent for a liquid indicator to determine if the supply of oil has been depleted in the crank case of an automobile's internal combustion engine. Further purposes of this patent include the closing of an electrical circuit when the oil in the crank case becomes low in order to sound an audible noise that alerts the driver that more oil is needed. The patent intends to make the invention durable, easy to use, and inexpensive to manufacture.
- Mechanical Movement
- Patent for the invention of certain improvements in mechanical movements.
- Miner's Lamp.
- Patent for a miner's lamp with a combustion chamber that allows for the regulation and extinguishing of the flame. It is designed to be lightweight and cheap to manufacture.
- Mosquito Bar Frame.
- Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the upright bars having their upper ends reduced . . . and provided with staples, the brackets, having loops at opposite ends and a pintle on its lower branch to enter the staples in the posts, the lateral rods carrying the loop brackets at opposite ends, and sockets . . . to receive the upper ends of the posts, the inner cross-bar arranged in the inner brackets of the lateral rods, the outer cross-bar arranged in the outer brackets of said rods, and the longitudinally-adjustable slide-bar carrying guide-eyes" lines 82-95).
- Paris Green Distributer.
- Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a device for distributing insect-powder, of a blower suspended from the saddle in position to be operated by the foot of the rider, a tube leading from the bellows, and a hopper communicating with the tube" (lines 18-23).
- Pen Holder.
- Patent for a new and improved pen holder. This design "is to provide a pen holder of simple construction that may be easily held between the fingers without cramping the same, that will hold the pen in such a position in relation to the eye as to enable the writer to write well, and that will be adapted to hands of various sizes. To this end [the] invention consists of a curved flat holder having a shank projecting from the end thereof, to which a pen may be attached, said shank being nearly parallel with the straight portion of the holder, and in line with the eye when held in position for writing" (lines 9-22).
- Plant-Chopper.
- Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
- Plow
- Patent for "a plow of simple and inexpensive construction capable of being readily and easily changed from an ordinary plow to a ditching-plow, and vice versa" (lines 10-14).
- Process of Treating Roads, &c.
- Patent for Improved Process for Treating Roads, etc., "to provide means for preventing or retarding the formation of dust on roadways, and...to effect the formation of a road or road surface" (lines 8-13).
- Railway-Rail Support and Coupling.
- Patent for improved combined railway rail supports and joints that increases the efficiency and utility of such devices. Eliminates the need of employing additional bolts or other fastening means.
- Railway Right-of-Way-Mowing Device
- Patent for an improved mowing device for the removal of weeds and grass, specifically from railways.
- Sanitary Udder-Protector.
- Patent for udder protectors for milch (dairy) cows. To keep foreign matters from contact and to keep the udders warm for the animals' comfort, including illustrations.
- Saw Tooth.
- Patent for a new and improved saw tooth. This design "relates to saws having attachable and detachable teeth held to their places by locking plates or keys inserted, like the teeth, within recesses in the saw-plate; and it consists in a novel construction of the parts, also in combining with the same a spring-bolt, whereby each tooth and its locking key are securely held in position, with facility for detachment when required, and whereby, also, any drawing action, in cutting of the wood on the tooth, tightens the attachment of the tooth" (lines 8-18).
- Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums
- Patent for a tool to facilitate the cleaning of the interior of asphalt cooking drums in order to prevent clogging, with illustrations.
- Seed-Planter
- Patent for improvements to seed planters including "having a revolving seed distributing drum provided with radial slots in which radially moving plungers are arranged, and so operated that at predetermined points seeds are received in the pockets and subsequently ejected therefrom" (lines 12-17) including instructions and illustrations.
- Sod Cutter.
- Patent for a new and improved sod-cutter. This design consists, "with a sod-cutter comprising the frame, the horizontal blade, the beam, the handle-bars, and the brace-rod connecting the said beam with the outer handle-bar . . . of the upwardly and outwardly curved guide-rods secured to the rear of the said blades, the curved cutting-blades secured to said rods for dividing the cut sod into separate portions, and the fender provided with a forwardly-bent flange at its upper edge and secured to the said brace-rod diagonally of the machine and behind and above the said blades" (lines 76-88).
- Stalk Puller and Chopper.
- Patent for a stalk puller that can pull the stalk from the ground and chop in pieces for feeding for fertilizer.
- Stamping-Machine
- Patent for new stamping device for "quickly and accurately stamping railroad tickets on their faces with the date of issue, the destination and the time limit or number of the train on which the ticket is to be used" (lines 11-15) including instructions and illustrations.
- Stem Winding and Setting Watch.
- Patent for a new and improved watch. This design "has relation particularly to an improvement in mechanism for winding and setting the watch, so that the 'movement' may be rendered interchangeable for application to a case, whether arranged for a hunting-case watch or an open-face watch. In watches as commonly constructed a different arrangement is made for the winding and setting mechanism for a hunting-case watch from that of one having an open face" (lines 12-21).
- Tail-End Light for Automobiles.
- Patent for a tail-end light for automobiles, subway and surface trains, and other motor propelled vehicles which changes color to indicate the speed at which the conveyance is traveling.
- Telegraph Apparatus.
- Patent for a telegraph apparatus for which a "permanent record may be made" (lines 25-26) with a typewriter. The telegraph apparatus also allows for "positive and minus impulses" (line 40) to be sent over the telegraph line. Illustrations included. Best Available Copy -- some fading of the text on first, third, and fifth pages; third page illegible in some places.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-112
- 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 a justice of the peace may conduct his court in a place other than in his precinct, and related question.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-113
- 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: Validity of Article II, Section 28b of House Bill 86, Acts of the 58th Leg., R.S., 1963.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-114
- 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: Duties of the Judge of the Probate Court of Harris County, under the facts states.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-115
- 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 House Bill 395, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, 1963, Chapter 327, page 857, when is effect, will govern the age limits set for parole officers, or whether the provisions of Article 781d, Section 28, Vernon’s Code of Criminal Procedure, will apply as to age limits of such officers.