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- Claw-Bar for Drawing Railroad-Spikes.
- Patent for "an invention is an improved claw-bar for drawing railroad-spikes, the object of my invention being to provide the bar with a pivoted fulcrum-piece which is adapted to facilitate the engagement of the toe or claw of the bar with the head of a spike, to increase the leverage of the bar in withdrawing the spike, and to provide means to relieve the pivots or trunnions of the fulcrum-piece of stress when the bar is being operated todraw a spike." (Lines 8-17) Illustration is included.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts the stalks with a sliding cut and has multiple blades that are adjustable.
- Center Foot for Cultivators
- Patent for "an improved center foot or standard which is adapted to be readily attached to and detached from a beam or beams of a cultivator adjusted thereon and adapted for the attachment of a shovel, plow, or sweep of any kind required" (lines 8-15).
- Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
- Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
- Bedclothes-Clamp
- Patent for a bed clothes clamp for holding the sheets and blankets over the occupant of the bed.
- Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.
- Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
- Boiler Compound
- Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.
- Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines
- Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
- Bale Tie Buckle
- Patent for bale tie buckle. Illustration included.
- Boiler Feeder
- Patent for boiler feeder. This invention is designed as a gravity feed automatic boiler. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Chopper
- Patent for a cotton chopper that can cut plants in hills or drills.
- Automatic Electric Switch
- Patent for an automatic electric switch. This invention consists of a series of switches and a rotary switch run by electromagnetic key operating motor. Illustration included.
- Apparatus For Threshing and Cleaning Seed Cotton
- Patent for apparatus for threshing and cleaning seed cotton. Illustration included
- Aerodrome
- Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
- Animal-Poke
- Patent for an animal poke that is worn on the head of the animal to prevent it from breaking or going underneath wire fences.
- Automatic Electric Switch
- Patent for an automatic electric switch. Illustration included.
- Auger-Bit
- Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for a new and useful car coupling.
- Cooling Apparatus.
- Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
- Animal Trap
- Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Baling-Presses." (line 6-7) including instructions and illustrations.
- Coin Controlled Vending Machine
- Patent for coin controlled vending machine. Illustration included.
- Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake
- This report began discusses action began "in May of 2010 when Freese and Nichols (FNI) was retained by the City of Terrell, Texas in cooperation with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to assess, alternative uses of New Terrell City Lake (CITY Lake) and perform a dam condition assessment. The City of Terrell no longer uses the water supply from New Terrell City Lake and would like to find alternative uses for this supply." (p. ES-1).
- Car for Pneumatic Railways.
- Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.
- Cotton Cleaner and Feeder.
- Patent for "a machine especially adapted for cleaning cotton and distributing the same to one or more gins; and it has for its object to so construct the machine that it will receive the cotton from the usual suction-pipe or equivalent supply, will clean the cotton, shred or separate the same and deliver it to a carrier, which in its turn will distribute the cotton to the hoppers of one or more gins, the distribution being evenly and expeditiously accomplished; and a further object of the invention is to provide for a steady feed of the cotton at the delivery end of the carrier, said device effectually preventing choking at that point." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Brace for Back and Legs.
- Patent for a new and improved back and leg brace. This design consists in "the combination of the belt, the straps secured to the belt, [other] straps secured to the [same] belt and extending downward V-shaped, the links at the lower ends of the straps, the [other] strap, the pads attached to the lower ends of the straps, and the necessary buckles to secure and adjust the device to the body of the wearer" (lines 54-62).
- Baling-Press
- Patent for improvements in construction of cotton baling-presses.
- Caster.
- Patent for a new and improved caster. This design consists in "the combination of a caster having an elongated stem provided with upper and lower annular supporting-shoulders, a poison-receptacle having a central opening in its bottom to receive the stem and provided with a central vertical tube having a top provided with an opening receiving the stem, said receptacle being supported by the lower shoulder, and a concavo-convex shield supported by the upper shoulder and arranged over the mouth of the receptacle and provided with a filling-orifice and having a pivoted cover" (lines 82-93).
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame or support, the lever-arms, the winch and the ropes connecting the said arms thereto, the follower, the toggle-jointed levers connecting the said follower with the frame, and the rods connecting the joints of the said levers to the lever-arms, with the follower and the fulcrumed levers, having their inner ends connected to the follower and their outer ends connected to [a different] follower whereby the said followers move simultaneously when the winch is turned" (lines 83-94).
- Boot Cleaner.
- Patent for a new and improved boot cleaner. This design "affords facilities for readily and conveniently scraping all parts of the boot or shoe. The heel is scraped on [a] semicircular portion located at the top of the arch, the sides of the sole by the arms, the upper hollow of the foot by the projections, [and] the toe by the lower side of the arch or bow" (lines 38-45).
- Churn.
- Patent for a simple and durable churn that quickly makes butter. The butter is churned by pumping a lever, which is connected to a strap that is wrapped around a rod, the rod goes into the container holding the cream and has hoops attached to it inside the container, and the pumping action makes the hoops quickly move back and forth.
- Cotton Carrier.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton-carrier. This design consists in "the bottom having the ridged portion and the oppositely-inclined portions, said bottom being provided with a hook in front, the upright post in front for holding the lines, the posts upon the sides near the front, to which the mouth of the bag is secured to be held open, and the upright posts on the sides in the rear of the posts for holding the bags when filled" (lines 78-85).
- Car-Brake.
- Patent for a new and more effective brake for trains, with illustrations.
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame and the operating-gearing, of the vertical shaft, supported by the frame and acted on by the operating-gearing, the horizontal plate rigidly secured to the lower end of the shaft and provided with radial grooves, and slots in said grooves, the feet having their upper ends bent at right angles, fitted in said grooves and adjustably secured therein by bolts passing through the radial slots, the lower ends of the feet carrying choppers" (lines 39-49).
- Adjustable Book Support.
- Patent for a new and improved book rest. This design consists "of an upright pivoted in a support or base, a sliding lower supporting cross-bar, an upper sliding supporting-bar, both bars having sockets upon their rear sides sliding upon the upright and provided with set-screws, and leaf-clamps consisting of a piece of spring doubled at one end to form slides sliding upon the arms of the upper cross-bar, forming curved yielding portions, forming transverse eyes at the other ends, having flat blocks hinged at the said eyes, and provided with thumb-pieces" (lines 72-83).
- Churn.
- Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable frame having a fly-wheel mounted in bearings thereof, and a wrist-pin on said fly-wheel, of the lever pivoted to the frame at one end" (lines 95-98). Further, it consists in "carrying a pivoted dasher at its other end, said lever having a slot or opening to receive the wrist-pin, a crank-arm, a treadle pivoted to the frame at one end, and carrying a handle at its other end, and a rod connecting the treadle and crank-arm" (lines 1-6).
- Baling Press.
- Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination of sill having uprights or fulcrums, levers mounted upon the latter, a follow-block connected to the inner ends of said levers by loose joints, a vertically-sliding follower, rods connecting the outer ends of said follower with the outer ends of the levers, and mechanism for operating the follower . . . the follower moving vertically above the sill, levers pivoted to uprights or fulcrums upon the sill, and having inner beveled ends, a follow-block loosely jointed between the inner ends of said levers" (lines 64-77).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the hoe, of a standard, fulcrumed to a hinged adjustable bar, and connected by mechanism[s] with the ground-wheel" (lines 77-80).
- Combination-Wrench.
- Patent for a combination wrench that combines a sliding-jaw wrench with a tallow box, hammer, nail claw, horseshoe-pick, plow-paddle, and screwdriver.
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design has an axle "provided with holes, so that the choppers or cultivators may be adjusted thereon to bring them nearer together or place them farther apart, as may be desired, to change the implement from a chopper to a marker or cultivator" (lines 30-35).
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3547, Chapter 776
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in Kaufman County.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3582, Chapter 779
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the Kingsborough Municipal Utility District Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Kaufman County.
- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3622, Chapter 1299
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the Kingsborough Municipal Utility District No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Kaufman County.
- 80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1942, Chapter 1000
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Gastonia-Scurry Special Utility District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 323, Chapter 497
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Fairfields Municipal Utility District of Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1205, Chapter 545
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of the Kaufman County Municipal Utility District Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
- 80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 401, Chapter 503
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Moore Farm Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 of Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1894, Chapter 1361
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation, powers, management, and boundaries of certain utility districts and a water control and improvement district in Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-516
- 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 Superintendent of Terrell State Hospital may refuse to furnish to a widow of a deceased patient the medical records of the deceased patient who dies shortly after his discharge
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-883
- 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: Maximum tax rate under charter of City of Terrell's authority to pledge net profits of municipal light plant, together with ad valorem taxes to service general obligation bonds of the city; authority under the city charter to levy a tax other than that provided for in Sections 17, 18, 21, and 22, for the payment of street improvement bonds.