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- Airship.
- Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
- Amusement Device
- Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
- Archaeological Survey of the Billingsley West Cell
- A report of an archaeological survey of the proposed Billingsley West Cell in Coppell, Texas.
- Automatic Cotton or Corn Planter.
- Patent for an automatic cotton or corn planter that is simple and inexpensive, and is a line of planters that sows in parallel rows that does not need to be guided by hand. The devices are independently adjustable.
- Automatic Railway-Gate.
- Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
- Cabinet
- Patent for a cabinet. Illustration included.
- Car-Door.
- Patent for a door for railroad boxcars, which locks tightly and does not swell.
- Clamp.
- Patent for a new clamp to improve support functionality in household construction, including illustration.
- Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter.
- Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin and flour sifter. This design "has relation to that class of flour-sifters in which the sifting mechanism is secured at the lower end of a bin or receptacle containing the flour or meal; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device in which the bin is divided in two receptacles opening into the sifting mechanism, and having suitable cut-off slides" (lines 21-29).
- Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner
- Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
- Cotton-Feeder.
- Patent for cotton feeders to facilitate the replacement of feed rollers without damage to the cotton feeder and be disposed of efficiently, including illustrations and instructions.
- Cotton-Picking Machine
- Patent for improvements to a cotton picking machine complete with illustrations
- Cotton Reginning Machine
- Patent for machine that improves the grade of harvested
- Dish-Washing Machine.
- Patent for an improved dish-washing machine with removable platforms to hold the dishes to be cleaned and water spraying from both top and bottom of the device, including illustrations.
- Dispensing Liquids
- Patent for device used to dispense liquids such as gasolene or the like.
- Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights
- Patent for an improved electric light control switch design meant to decrease the rate of energy consumption.
- Elevator Controlling Device
- Patent for improvements to the elevator controlling device. These improvements have to do with the main circuit being broken while the elevator doors are open, thus stopping the elevator from moving before the doors are fully closed.
- Float Drive For Cotton Linters
- Patent for a float drive. This invention is for cotton seed linters as a means for imparting rotative movement to the float. Illustration included.
- Fuse-Block.
- Patent for the Fuse Block. Patent is an improvement to the existing Fuse Block. It allows safer working conditions for those who have to replace or install new fuse blocks at night and/or the rain.
- Gin-Saw.
- Patent for a saw toothed drums or cylinders (such as used for gins that denude cotton seeds).
- Hot Pan Lifter.
- Patent for a new and improved potholder. This design is "to provide novel means whereby the various sizes of baking and other pans in the equipment of a kitchen can be conveniently and safely handled without danger of the pan being accidentally disengaged from the implement . . . to provide a novel hot-pan lifter which will in use have a positive toothed engagement with the rim of a hot-pan . . . to provide novel, simple, and efficient means whereby the lifter or implement can be promptly and conveniently released from . . .the pan . . . by the simple pressure of the thumb" (lines 18-31).
- Improvement in Car-Couplings.
- Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
- Lemon Squeezer
- Patent for a lemon squeezing mechanism, designed to be more convenient for convenience store clerks.
- Liquid Fuel Burner
- Patent for a liquid fuel burner. Illustration included.
- Locking Device for Motor Vehicles
- Patent for lock device for motor vehicles
- Machine For Sealing Newspapers, &c.
- Patent for a new and useful machine for sealing newspapers, including instructions and illustrations.
- Mandolin.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in mandolins, including instructions and illustrations.
- Metal Storage-Tank
- Patent for a multi-part/multi-section metal storage tank (also known as a knock-down tank). Parts are secured by a clamp.
- Motor-Driven Surface-Treating Machine.
- Patent for a surface-treating machine propelled by a motor. The design is compact, economic, and more efficient than previous machines.
- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for "nut-locks especially adapted for use in securing nuts upon bolts at the joints of railway-rails." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Oil-Press.
- Patent for a cotton seed oil press, which produces more oil with less workers and less cost and is much safer than previous machines.
- Oiler
- Patent for an oiler. This invention is designed to be attached to a broom for the distribution.
- Planter.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in planters, including instructions and illustrations.
- Planter and Cultivator.
- Patent for a planter and cultivator that plants three, five, seven, or more rows at the same time. The planters are interchangeably connected, and can be used for planting, cultivating, cutting, and other similar activities. It is not difficult for one person to operate.
- Process of Picking And Separating Cotton from Bolls.
- Patent for a device to remove plant fiber from picked cotton (referred to as "burs" and "bolls"). The device makes the process of cleaning cotton faster and more efficient.
- Process of Producing Prints on Metal.
- Patent for a new way to print negatives directly on sensitized metal by dying the print, removing the dye stains, burnishing the "high lights," polishing the dye print and finally lacquering in order to make permanent. This gives the image a bas-relief effect.
- Process of Solidifying Mortar and Concrete Formations
- Patent for a process for making stone structures such as blocks, walls, slabs, etc.
- Rail-Plate.
- Patent for rail-plate joint and fastener support improvement to increase load bearing capabilities, decrease vertical or lateral displacement by reinforced strength to support car wheel springing.
- Refrigerator
- Patent for a refrigerator. This invention uses ice for cooling and designed to provided greater cooling efficiency. Illustration included.
- Roof Anchoring Device
- Patent for a roof anchoring device. Illustration included.
- Seed-Stand
- Patent for a stepped stand having a compartment at each step where seeds may be kept. Illustrations included.
- Shoe-Heel Holder.
- Patent for "the provision of means for removably holding a heel in position for attachment to a shoe...as to hold it against accidental displacement during the operation of securing it to the shoe..." (lines 10-12, 22-24). It also includes an illustration.
- Spraying and Powder Dusting Attachment
- Patent for improved dusting and spraying attachment for cultivators
- Stalk-Cutters.
- Patent for a stalk-cutter that has simple and inexpensive frame with cutting attachments. The attachments are independently adjustable or adjustable as one unit, and can be adjusted and operated from the operator's seat.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6662
- 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: Method to be employed in making distribution of money in treasury of Dallas County Levee Improvement District No. 6, and related questions.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1188
- 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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Necessity for food supplies for the county jail to be purchased by the county purchasing agent.
- Voice Recording and Reproducing Device.
- Patent for a voice recording "attachment for a moving picture camera, which, while a picture is being taken will produce [...] photographic record of sounds that appropriately accompany the picture" (lines 11-16), including illustrations.
- Work Engaging Support for Surface Treating Machines
- Patent for work engaging support for surface treating machines. Intent of patent is to provide support for revolving sections of machinery in order to provide greater stabilization.