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- Adjustable Headlight For Vehicles.
- Patent for a vertically moving headlight so that the driver can aim light toward the direction in which they are traveling. The headlight is meant to be durable and easy to build.
- Adjustable Tongs
- Patent for adjustable blacksmiths tongs for handling different size objects.
- Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods.
- Patent for a rod sleeve to protect the rod joints from damage or bending. The design also includes rollers to keep the rods centered in the casing to eliminate rubbing.
- Apparatus for Oiling Railway-Tracks.
- Patent for improvements in mechanism for “applying oil to curves and switches of street railway tracks” (lines 6-7) by using an “oil-tank [that] is arranged in the upper position of the hood or shield over the car-wheel. The valve is in the bottom of the oil-space and may be controlled by a lever arranged to turn or lift in the valve, and under the valve is arranged the oiling-wheel, which runs lightly on the track or face of the car-wheel and applied the oil." (Page 2, lines 69-76) Includes illustration.
- Automatic Weighing Machine
- Patent for an automatic weighing machine. Illustration included.
- Bale Forming Apparatus
- Patent for a bale forming apparatus. This invention is designed as an improvement to existing bale-forming apparatus.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for a baling-press used for baling cotton "in which the cotton-bat is wound into a cylindrical form without the use of a metal or similar core" (lines 11-13).
- Baling Press
- Patent for Baling Press
- Blinn College Request for Legislative Appropriations for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017
- Request for funding by legislative appropriations by Blinn College for FY 2016-2017, submitted to the Governor's Office of Budget, Planning and Policy and the Legislative Budget Board.
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017
- Report submitted by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to the 84th regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with supporting documentation.
- Cloth Rack.
- Patent for a new and improved clothes rack. This design "essentially consists in constructing a vertical rectangular revolving frame, each side of which carries a tier of racks. Each of the racks is provided with a support on which the bolt of cloth or similar material may be readily turned, and has pivoted parallel to and in front of said bolt a roller, which retains the same in place, and over which the free edge of the cloth passes from the lower surface of the bolt, and which, in addition, facilitates the unrolling of the cloth" (lines 21-32).
- Combination Rule, Square, and Miter.
- Patent for a combination of devices that contains "attachments for folding rules which will make said rules capable of use as a square, tri-square, and miter" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Ink, Pen, and Penholder Carrier.
- Patent for a combination case for ink, pens, and penholders or pencils. It is "an inkwell and pen-box with tubes parallel with the sides thereof to form a small compact parcel occupying the least possible space" (lines 10-13).
- Cotton Ball Harvester
- Patent for improvements in cotton ball harvesters. The invention "relates to harvesting machinery, and has special reference to a cotton harvester designed to remove the cotton balls from plants," (lines 10-14).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for improvements in cotton choppers in which “when the machine progresses over the field, the plows or cultivators will stir and agitate the soil and the rotary cutting-hoes will chop out the plants, leaving the stands of cotton any desired distance apart, which may be regulated by so arranging the gearing as to cause the chopping-hoes to be rotated more or less rapidly.” (Page 2, lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
- Cotton Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
- Cotton Picker.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton picker. This design has a spring-actuating "mechanism located upon the casing, and a hood for inclosing said mechanism hinged to one of the side walls of the casing and held closed by a fastening device . . . [and] the casing thereof, the endless picker-belt, flanged drums, and the toothed disks contained within said casing . . . and a pulley and belt for winding the spring" (lines 1-12).
- Depurator
- Patent for a depurator. "This invention realtes to an improved vacuum apparatus for medicinal purposes" (line 11-12). Illustrations included.
- Draft Rigging for Railway Cars
- Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
- Egg-Case Fastener.
- Patent for a fastener that is used in "egg-cases and packages of similar character designed for shipping goods and which are required to be returned to the consignor to be again used" (lines 8-11). The top of the case has a plate securing it so that it is "secured by positive means against accidental displacement" (lines 23-24).
- Fastening for Blind Slats.
- Patent for a new and improved fastening for blind slats. This design "consists in a device for use with a blind to clamp the slat-rod, and thereby retain the slats more or less open or closed" (lines 7-9).
- Fertilizer-Distributer.
- Patent for improvements in fertilizer distributers by using a combination of a hopper, a detachable drill-chute, two shafts with fingers inside the hopper, and an inclined spring-held and adjustable apron attached at the rear end of the hopper. This adjustable apron allows the shafts to operate effectively and efficiently. Illustration is included.
- Fluid-Fuel Burner.
- Patent for "a simple and efficient device adapted to feed the fuel as required for the support of combustion and avoid flooding and hence the danger of explosion, and, furthermore, to provide a compact arrangement of parts whereby the device may be arranged in the fire-box of an ordinary stove or range." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Flying-Machine.
- Patent for a new flying machine which uses compact, "artificially produced air currents" (lines 11-12), including illustrations.
- Gate.
- Patent for a farm gate, which can be opened from a vehicle and stays open until a second operation is performed to close the gate.
- Gate.
- Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates of that class known as 'tilting and folding' gates, and is designed to produce a gate that will automatically lock itself when down and close the passage by means which will not interfere in the least with the operation of the tilting" (lines 9-15).
- Hand-Support for Writers.
- Patent for "a support especially adapted for the use of those learning to write, and by which the hand may be accustomed to the proper position for writing from the beginning of the study." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Hydrocarbon-Burner.
- Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
- Improvement in Churns.
- Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
- Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
- Patent for "an Improved Cotton-Bale Tie" (line 5) including illustrations.
- Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie
- Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
- Improvements in Steam Engine
- Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
- McLennan Community College Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017
- Report submitted by the McLennan Community College containing summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with supporting documentation.
- Metallic Compound.
- Patent for "the process of making alloys for journal-bearings" (lines 42-43) of more durable quality than those formed with "brass and bronzes" (line 10).
- Milking Apparatus
- Patent for a milking apparatus. This invention is designed to imitate the action of hand milking or a calf's sucking. Illustration included.
- Necktie Fastening.
- Patent for a new and improved tie pin. This design "is to provide a simple and reliable device for fastening neck-ties or cravats, in place of the elastic loop and other means usually employed. To that end, by perforating the collar-button and providing the cravat-shield with a spring-loop, [the design] obtain[s] combined collar-button and cravat-fastener" (lines 7-14).
- Nut Lock
- Patent for a mechanism to lock a nut in place on a bolt that also automatically releases when a wrench is applied to turn the nut.
- Oil Burner
- Patent for Oil Burner
- Pipe
- Patent for pipe. It is designed to insulate against heat and cold for all forms of fluid conveying pipes.
- Pipe or Cigar Holder.
- Patent for a new and useful holder that has a removable nicotine-cup and, it is capable of being used as a cigar or cigarette holder or used as a pipe. Illustration is included.
- Plow
- Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
- Portable Type-Distributer.
- Patent for improvements in portable “type-distributing device which can be comfortably held in the hand and without strain on the wrist, and which is provided with a suitable main receptacle to hold the matter being distributed and also with auxiliary receptacles for leads and spaces, whereby the labor of distributing is greatly facilitated and lessened and the work much more rapidly accomplished.” (Lines 26-34) Includes illustration.
- Railroad-Tie.
- Patent for a railroad tie that locks against cross-plates to stay secure.
- San Antonio Monthly Reports: July 1986
- Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
- San Antonio Monthly Reports: July 1987
- Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.
- Seed-Planter.
- Patent is for a seed planter that plows and seeds at the same time.
- Self-Propelled Truck.
- Patent for a self-propelled truck that has free-turning movement, independent of the truck frame, and has a body that "may be low down and straight from end to end" (lines 29-30). This patent includes illustrations.
- Spirometer
- Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-477
- 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 the First Assistants and Chief Deputies in the various State offices and departments are entitled to reimbursement for their actual meals, lodging and incidental expenses while traveling on official business either in or out of the State of Texas.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-456A
- 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: Clarification of Attorney General’s Opinions No. 456