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- Air-Tight Heating-Stove
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
- Artificial Hand-Grip.
- Patent for an improvement to artificial hand-grips that includes a pair of jaws that attaches to an artificial arm and allows wearers to perform various activities.
- Attachment for Pipes
- Patent for an attachment for pipes. Illustration included.
- Automobile Steering Apparatus.
- Patent for automobile steering apparatus, adding two rear wheels and mounting an enlarged body on the frame which will allow a considerable number of passengers to be carried and many advantages had as a public service vehicle.
- Bustle.
- Patent for a new and improved bustle. This design "consist[s] of a single piece of wire bent in spiral form, said bustle being larger in diameter at its center than at its ends, and eyes or loops formed in said ends, in combination with a spiral spring located within said bustle, the ends of said spring being formed with eyes or loops, and cords or tapes secured to the eyes of the bustle and spring" (lines 52-59).
- Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.
- Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
- Clothes-Pin.
- Patent for a clothes pin made from spring metal that "automatically adapt[s] itself to lines of different thicknesses, and whereby the pin may be used to retain an exceedingly thin article in engagement with the line as effectually as an exceedingly thick article, the pin being capable of holding a bit of lace and likewise a heavy blanket or quilt" (lines 11-18). It is especially designed for use with metal clothes lines.
- Combined Penholder And Eraser
- Patent for a combined penholder and eraser. Illustration included.
- Compound Gas-Engine
- Patent for a compound gas-engine.
- Cotton-Cleaner.
- Patent for an improved cotton cleaner including instructions and illustrations.
- Dental Swaging Apparatus
- Patent for a dental apparatus that produces gold facings and cusps for individual teeth, as well as plate and bridge work.
- Elevator-Door Sill.
- Patent for an elevator sill that bridges the gap between the floor and the bottom of the elevator when the elevator doors are open.
- Garment.
- Patent for a device to keep a coat from sagging or becoming wrinkled as a "garment-stiffening device" [Lines 83-84].
- Improved Method of Feathering the Sails of Vanes of Windmills.
- Patent for a new windmill design with different sails and connections, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Brick-Machines.
- Patent for an improvement in brick-machines by which a new combination of construction materials is contrived.
- Improvement in Traction-Engines.
- Patent for a traction engine "for running on common roads and rails, and to be used for drawing plows, and as a motive power generally" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
- Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks
- Patent for the mechanical cutting and scoring of box blanks with illustrations.
- Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs
- Patent for a "mechanical attachment for pianos and organs whereby and musical composition executed upon the instrument shall be automatically recorded upon a travelling strip or band or, if preferred, on the cylindrical surface of a revolving drum" (lines 10-15).
- Nut-Cracking Mechanism.
- Patent for a nut-cracking mechanism that adjusts automatically to the size of nut with a variable cracking stroke.
- Nut Lock.
- Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consists of a slide or continuous collar or ring, made of lead or other soft or compressible metal or material, having a hole so that it will fit or pass over the end of an ordinary bolt, and adapted to be pressed into the threads of the bolt and against the face of an ordinary nut by a suitable die" (lines 16-23).
- Nutcracker.
- Patent for a nutcracker "of simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, having few parts and which may be conveniently operated." (lines 9-10) including illustration.
- Preheating Means for Vapor-Burners
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in generators for vapor-burners" (line 6-7), including instructions and illustration.
- Process of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil.
- Patent for a process for refining crude Cottonseed oil that produces more soap byproduct than other methods.
- Running Gear for Vehicles.
- Patent for a new and improved running gear for vehicles. This design "has for its object . . . to dispense with the reach or pole, and while doing this to provide for or avoid interference with the normal action of the springs, and to render it applicable to vehicles already in use. To these ends [the] invention consists in the employment of braces adapted to be connected to and permit the springs to have the required movement, and also of additional braces arranged between the body support or frame and axles, having the one a slotted plate and the other a slotted bridge" (lines 15-27).
- Stovepipe-Fastener.
- Patent for a stovepipe fastener for the purpose of securing the end of the stovepipe into a sheet metal thimble and preventing the stovepipe being pulled out of the chimney and into the room.
- Stump-Puller.
- Patent for a simple and effective stump puller that pulls stumps entirely from the ground using a large amount of force. The machine uses a series of pulleys, hooks, levers, and cranks.
- Suspended Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a suspended rail-joint that improves on the anglebar railjoint. The improved design has the minimum amount of bolts, does not use railbolts, has a newly designed fastener, allowance for the rails to expand and contract, and adjustable guards against creeping.
- Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0312
- Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to the City of Dallas received request for information pertaining to Arrest Report No. 0754659-H.
- Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0324
- Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to whether the Dallas, Texas Police Department must release a police report related to a pending investigation.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-72
- 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Dallas City Council may control the use of funds confiscated pursuant to the assest forfeiture law (RQ-114)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-67
- 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: Authority of Constable of Precinct No. 1, Dallas County, to employ more than five (5) deputies.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-341
- 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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not the County of Dallas Child Support Clearing Account Funds and the County of Dallas Juvenile Department, Child Support Division Holding Account Funds are secured under the bond of the County depository banks when deposited with said banks without first passing through the hands of the County Treasurer.
- Weather Strip.
- Patent for a new and improved weather strip. This design "is to provide a new and improved weather-strip, which is raised into a groove in the bottom of the door when the door is open, but is pressed down upon the sill when the door is closed. The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-13).