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- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 10
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to the wrestling team of St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas on its 500th dual meet win.
- 82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1889, Chapter 155
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of municipal courts of record in the city of Mesquite.
- 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4300, Chapter 17
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Dallas County Hospital District.
- 86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2326, Chapter 194
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the continuation of a health care provider participation program by the Dallas County Hospital District.
- Account Book
- Patent for an account book that is to be used "to receive in condensed form the dates and other particulars when sums are due to and from a person or firm are payable" (p. 2).
- Adjustable Lamp-Shade.
- Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
- Air-Regulating Attachment.
- Patent for a new attachment in a carburetor that regulates air through suction and has a valve to release pressure from an engine, including illustrations.
- Air-Tight Heating-Stove
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
- Amusement Device.
- Patent for an invention relating to the amusement device. Advantages and illustrations of the invention and amusement device are included.
- Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton
- Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
- Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots.
- Patent for "attachment for coffee or tea pots or other receptacles" (lines 5-7) designed to materially improve the construction of the pot or urn, whereby the same will be simple and effective and the process of treating the coffee or tea by the action of the boiling water or steam materially enhanced.
- Automatic Filling-Machine
- Patent for a filling machine. Illustrations included.
- Automatic Track Sweeping and Oiling Attachment for Street-Cars.
- Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When “the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean.” (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included.
- AUTOMOBILE-TOOL.
- Patent for an automobile tool for the Ford make of automobiles that "will hold the springs away from the bands and allow the bands to be removed and replaced or adjusted, when necessary" (lines 29-32) including instructions and illustrations.
- Axle Box for Locomotives.
- Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design "has relation to self-adjusting wedges for axle or driving boxes for locomotives, and has for its objects to produce a wedge that is controlled by a spring, which can be readily and easily adjusted for removing the pounding and lost motion between the axle-box and pedestal" (lines 11-17).
- Bed Spring.
- Patent for a new and improved bed-spring. This design consists in "the adjustable tie that connects the springs beneath the slats. This device is simple, cheap, convenient, and durable. It is adjustable to slats placed at different distances apart, and will remain in position when placed upon the slats, holding the diagonal rows of springs in a straight line, causing the springs to remain uniform all over the bed" (lines 72-80).
- Book-Support and Writing-Table.
- Patent for book support and writing table that adjusts to the item being used by the person. The tray is able to hold the item either a book or writing materials while adjusting to the user's needs. The book support and writing table can be folded to occupy little space.
- Camp-Cooker.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a form of camp cooker, or camp stove and particularly appertains to a folding and demountable cooker" (lines 8-11), including instructions and illustrations.
- Car Wheel and Axle.
- Patent for a car wheel and axle made up of a built-up metallic wheel with dished side-plates that have flanged and riveted rims, hub-nuts, a lock-plate, hollow screw-threaded ends, hexagonal offsets, tubular journals, a tubular journal, and a radial lubricating feed-tube with a cross-head and a collar.
- Check Book Cover
- Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
- Child's Seat for Vehicles.
- Patent for a removable child's seat for buggies, phaetons, carriages, sleighs, and similar vehicles that folds up so it can be stored under the seat when not in use. The chair sits next to the dash, and is locked into place so the child is safe.
- Churn.
- Patent for a churning receptacle for improvement in ease of operation, efficiency, and sanitation.
- Circuit-Breaker for Storage Batteries
- Patent for a circuit-breaker for storage batteries "whereby the circuit is automatically broken when the storage battery has become fully charged. (line 11-13)
- Cistern
- Patent for the "class of cisterns used to catch rain-water from the roofs of houses or other places" (lines 9-11); including illustration and instructions
- Coffee Roaster.
- Patent for a coffee roaster, with key features such as electric heat and agitation of coffee beans during roasting, including illustrations.
- Combination Key and Automatic Stop Cock
- Patent for "new and improved Combination Key and Automatic Stop-Cock" (lines 6-7) for the purpose of providing "an automatic arrangement for cutting off the water-supply in hydrants and like appliances when the weather becomes so cold as to endanger the freezing of the water" (lines 11-14).
- Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.
- Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple planter that is "adapted to plant either corn or cotton and that at predetermined distances; to so construct the machine as to adapt it readily for change from one form of planter to the other; and to improve the manner of securing the furrow-opening shovel-carrying standard and the seed tube, whereby the former and latter are prevented from breaking or becoming injured should they contact with a stone, stump, or other obstacle of sufficient size and firmness to injure them" (lines 10-21).
- Combined Penholder And Eraser
- Patent for a combined penholder and eraser. Illustration included.
- Combined Pump and Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved pump and motor. This design "is to produce a simple apparatus which may be connected with a main water or service pipe and which will operate by the fluctuation of pressure in said main or pipe so as to operate the pump. The device is especially advantageous in raising water from a well or cistern to a tank placed at a higher elevation, or it may be placed on a pump in place of an air-chamber and used as a feed-pump for a boiler or on a hydraulic ram as an auxiliary pump" (lines 9-18).
- Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring
- Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
- Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
- Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for a cotton cleaner with beater arms attached to the shaft of the machine.
- Cotton Cleaning and Feeding Mechanism
- Patent for a mechanism designed to cleanse cotton of dust or other foreign particles or objects before being fed. Illustrations included.
- Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.
- Patent for improvements in cotton conveying and cleaning apparatus by using the combination of “a rearwardly-open feeder and a conveyer in position to receive cotton discharge at the rear of the feeder” (lines 103-105), as a result when a conveyer bring “cotton to the feeder, it would provide a branch in position to take up the cotton delivered by the conveyer” (lines 106-108) thus preventing undue accumulation of excess cotton and continuous movement of the cotton in all the parts. Illustration is included.
- Cotton-Cultivator.
- Patent for an improved cultivator used for tillage when the plows are not in the ground. The cultivator can also lighten the heaviness felt by the operator while the plow is being used.
- Cotton-Elevator and Gin-Feeder.
- Patent for an inexpensive cotton-elevator and gin-feeder that is easy to assemble and have removable screens and suspended chutes and feeders. Suction draws the cotton through the distributing trunk, and gravity drops the cotton into a gin. These concepts are also outlined in the inventor's previous patents, Nos 472,607 and 488,446.
- Cotton Elevator, Cleaner, and Feeder.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton elevators, cleaners, and feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
- Cotton Gin
- Patent for a cotton gin. This is an improvement over previous gins. The invention uses air blasting methods and dispenses with brush drums. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Gin Brush
- Patent for "a cheap, durable, efficient, and simple brush adapted for use in cotton-gins, the parts of which may readily be assembled or detached for purposes of construction, renewal, replacement, or repair" (lines 9-14).
- Cotton-Gin Feeder
- Patent for a new "Cotton-Gin Feeder, Drier, and Cleaner" (line 6.) for the purpose of disintegrating "dry, and clean damp and dirty seed-cotton" (lines 10-11).
- Cotton Press
- Patent for a cotton press. Illustration included.
- Crate.
- Patent for a crate for eggs which allows the eggs to be suspended in individual compartments for shipping. The crate will be lined with flexible material that will cushion the egg absorbing shock, including illustrations.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for getting a good knowledge on how to use a cultivator, detailed instructions are provided.
- Cutting and Stepping Machine
- Patent for a cutting and stepping machine meant to replace a human cutter.
- Design for a Nut Cracker.
- Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
- Dielectric Separator
- Patent for an apparatus that "separates substances of different dielectric capacities" (lines 12-13). Illustrations included.
- Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights
- Patent for an improved electric light control switch design meant to decrease the rate of energy consumption.
- Doffer.
- Patent for a doffer for removing cotton lint from gin saw blades, which does not harm the saws and is very sturdy.
- Draft-Equalizer.
- Patent for a "draft even or equalizer...for various cultivators, and particularly for disk plows" (lines 10-12).