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- Attachment for Cultivators.
- Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton presses, including instructions and illustrations.
- Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator
- Patent for a steam generator for hydrocarbon burners. Illustrations included.
- Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer.
- Patent for a combined mail crane, catcher, and deliverer for trains, which can both drop off and pick up mail at the same time.
- Burial-Vault
- Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
- Breast Connector
- Patent for a breast connector for horses. Illustration included.
- Bundle-Tie
- Patent for a bundle tie particularly designed for mail packages. Illustrations included.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper, which has rotating blades on the front.
- Combination-Heather.
- Patent for combination-heater in which it can be submerged directly in a body of water contained in any open-top vessel, such as a bath-hub, bucket or other receptacle for the purpose of raising the temperature of the water to a desired degree. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
- Clothes-Pin
- Patent for "a clothes pin or clasp which will have a clamping-spring action and which can be conveniently manipulated to apply or remove it to and from a holding position and one wherein the clamping members mainly he within the same plane" (lines 7-13).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper that can also chop or cut corn, cane, broom-corn, peas, or any similar plants that are planted thick in drills or rows. This particular chopper includes an approved arrangement and adjustment of the chopping-blades that can be set to cut at different angles.
- Attachment for Lifting-Jacks
- Patent for an attachment for lifting jacks.
- Car Brake
- Patent for a rail car brake. Illustration included.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
- Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms.
- Patent for a cleaning rod for rifles, which allows rapid movements in and out and turns a rag easily inside the barrel without tearing the cloth.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Casting-Machine
- Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
- Cotton Seed Separator
- Patent for cotton seed separator. This invention is designed to be a sifting machine for separating cotton seed between sizes. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Picker
- Patent for improvements to cotton pickers providing a wheeled machine that will "remove cotton lint from the plants by mechanical means" (lines 15-16) with added new features to construction and operation, including instructions and illustrations.
- Bicycle-Frame
- Patent for a bicycle frame that can be used on bicycles in general, but is particularly suited for spring frame bicycles including illustrations.
- Cultivator and Planter
- Patent for improvements in combined cultivators and corn/cotton planters to adapt an ordinary cultivator for planting of seeds with adjustable seed-tube and furrow opener to accommodate various character of ground being worked or cultivation being done.
- Cow, Calf and Colt Weaner.
- Patent for a weaner to be worn by cows, calves and colts "reducing inconvenience by the animal" (line 12) and allowing for the administration of medicine or antiseptic.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for Baling-Press designed particularly as a further improvement of the press and eliminate the long operating lever. (lines 12-14).
- Bicycle-Frame.
- Patent for a new and useful bicycle frame, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cultivator-Tooth Adjuster.
- Patent for a cultivator tooth adjuster that can be set to different angles.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Compress
- Patent for "a simple and efficient device and to secure economy in power and in construction" (lines 9-11).
- Corn and Cotton Planter
- Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).
- Clothes-Pounder.
- Patent for improvements in atmospheric clothes pounders: "Dividing the outer section into compartments so that air in escaping is distributed evenly from all sides of the pounder instead of escaping in a body from one side, whenever the pounder strikes a wad or knot of cloths and is tipped sidewise; it also makes the suction better" (lines 49-55).
- Clothes-Pounder.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive clothes pounder that has a conical casing, interior concentric partition, and equal draft and suction. The casing is divided into two compartments, but the divider has openings for air and suds.
- Combination-Lock for Money-Drawers, &c.
- Patent for improvement to a combination lock for money drawers to make it more secure.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for "a simple and inexpensive advertising device adapted to be placed on street corners and other public places and capable of exciting the curiosity and attracting attention, and thereby directing the attention of persons to the advertisement" (lines 11-16).
- Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and Feeder for Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for a "simple and efficient apparatus for conveying seed-cotton from a wagon or other source of supply, to one or more gins or gin feeders, said apparatus being adapted, at the same time, to thoroughly clean the seed-cotton and to deliver it to the gins or feeders in the desired quantities in a uniform manner, and in loose and uncompacted condition" (lines 14-21).
- Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for Combined Elevator, Cleaner, Distributer, and feeder for Seed-Cotton: "provide a simple, cheap and efficient apparatus for taking seed cotton from a wagon, or other source of supply cleaning it, and delivering it in the desired quantity and in a suitable condition for ginning to one or more gins or gin feeders" (lines 13-18).
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator attachment which is designed to be "a guard to protect the young growing crop from being covered by dirt when it is being cultivated." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Combined Car Coupling and Bumper.
- Patent for a combined car coupling and bumper. It has a draw-head with a throat, mouth, recess, and coupling pin hole; the recess has a slot that opens into the front of the draw-head; a lock-block that fits in the slot; a pin-seat that receives the lock-block; a spiral spring that holds in the pin-seat; and a coupling pin in the pin seat and a link.
- Clothes-Pounder.
- Patent for a clothes pounder "which will inclose a body of air and expel the same when it is brought down upon the clothes forcing water through the clothes and filling with water an upper chamber, and which when lifted from the clothes will release a body of water at the top of the pounder and cause water to pass through the clothes" (lines 12-19).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "relates to improvements in cotton-chopping machines in which revolving hoes are attached to plows; and the object of [the] improvement is to afford facilities for chopping out cotton by means of horse-power instead of by hand" (lines 8-13).
- Bridle Bit.
- Patent for a new and improved bridle-bit. This design consists "[i]n a bridle-bit, the combination, with the bit-bar, provided with the loops of the angle-levers mounted on the said bar and having their corresponding arms respectively connected by the curb-chain and provided with rein loops or rings and the studs or pins on the levers engaging the loops" (lines 70-76).
- Corn-Planting Attachment for Plows.
- Patent for improvement in corn planting attachment for plows in which the “attachment can be conveniently attached to any plow or furrow-opener” (lines 11-12) as a seed-dropping device. “This device may be retained in a raised or inoperative position.” (Lines 85-86) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus for Trimming Hooves of Animals.
- Patent for a new and improved hoof trimmer. This design "consists in an upright standard or support having a concaved supporting-recess adapted to receive the animal's hoof, with parallel guide-ways arranged in rear thereof, a trimming implement moving in said guides, and so constructed as to operate upon the hoof without injury to the frog, and means for reciprocating the trimming device from either side of the animal" (lines 16-25).
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for "a cotton-chopper attachment for cultivators... to be applied to the ordinary sulky-cultivator frame... and when so applied to constitute and efficient machine for chopping and thinning cotton." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Caster.
- Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
- Coffee Roaster.
- Patent for a new and improved "culinary utensil primarily intended for use as a coffee roaster, but also . . . of any article which needs to be stirred while upon the fire" (lines 12-16). This design utilizes a crankshaft to stir the beans (or other foods) as they roast.
- Autographic Register.
- Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-45), and prevents dishonesty in fare-collectors.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1622, Chapter 959
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a county court at law in Hill County.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-262
- 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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the State Board of Education has the authority to make an adjustment in the economic index and/or local fund assignment of Hill County, and related question.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-387
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May lateral road construction in Hill County be superintended by a non-graduate engineer?
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7195
- 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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the Hills County School Board, on its own motion. or on request of the Board of Trustees of Independent District "A", consolidate the entire Common School District "B" and parts of Common School Districts "C" and "D" with Independent School District "A"? and a related question.
- 2000 Census County Block Map: Limestone County, Block 2
- Parent map for Limestone County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:24,000.