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Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper

Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.

Date: March 29, 1910

Creator: Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L., Jr.

Item Type: Patent

Bat-Former

Patent for a cotton bat former that produces a bat of uniform size and weight.

Date: March 21, 1911

Creator: Ball, Samuel M.

Item Type: Patent

Bat-Former

Patent for a cotton bat former for use in cotton gins.

Date: March 28, 1911

Creator: Ball, Samuel M.

Item Type: Patent

Bolt-Jack

Patent for a bolt jack with which bolts may be pulled without bending. Illustrations included.

Date: March 29, 1910

Creator: Smith, Henry H.

Item Type: Patent

Churn

Patent for a churn. Illustrations included.

Date: March 11, 1913

Creator: Brown, Herbert E.

Item Type: Patent

Cistern-Guard.

Patent for a device that guards the water cistern against impure water which drains from the roof of a building to which the cistern appertains.

Date: March 26, 1912

Creator: Johnson, Charles W.

Item Type: Patent

Patent for "coin-banks or toy safes for containing hoarded coin" (lines 8-9). To provide a simple mechanism which "can be manufactured at an extremely low cost, which shall be of marked simplicity in construction, and in which coin will be securely contained..." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.

Date: March 26, 1901

Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.

Item Type: Patent

Ballot-Box

Patent for a ballot box using black and white balls.

Date: March 4, 1902

Creator: Green, Charles D.

Item Type: Patent

Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.

Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.

Date: March 7, 1893

Creator: Fitzgerald, John H.

Item Type: Patent

Churn Power.

Patent for a new and improved churn power. This design "relates to improvements in churn powers; and it consists of a plunger-shaft so connected to a wheel by means of a loose rod as to alternately raise or lower said shaft as the wheel rotates. The object of the invention is to accomplish the up-and-down motion and consequent agitation without the usual amount of labor" (lines 9-16).

Date: March 31, 1885

Creator: Patton, Charles W.

Item Type: Patent

Axle.

Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration.

Date: March 31, 1891

Creator: Stewart, John A.

Item Type: Patent

Car Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved car wheel. This design "consists in the combination, with a railroad-car axle having wheel-bearings of equal diameter throughout their whole lengths, of wheels the peripheries of which are provided with central flanges dividing each into two treads, the said wheels adapted to be pressed on the said bearings aforesaid, and to be removed therefrom, reversed, and again pressed thereon whenever the wear of the first tread shall render the same necessary" (lines 12-21).

Date: March 25, 1884

Creator: Melvin, Josiah W. & Clute, William H.

Item Type: Patent

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1763, Chapter 60

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the Harris County Board of Protective Services for Children and Adults.

Date: 2007-03/2007-05

Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.

Item Type: Legislative Document

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 22

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives congratulating the University of Houston System community and declaring February 20, 2007, University of Houston System Day at the Capitol.

Date: March 10, 2007

Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.

Item Type: Legislative Document

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-39

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Harris County may participate in the design and construction of a toll bridge from Galveston Island to Point Bolivar.

Date: March 13, 2003