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- I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040
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- 78th Texas Legislature, Third Called Session, House Concurrent Resolution 29
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating AAA Texas on opening its new regional headquarters in Irving.
- Aeroplane-Kite.
- Patent for a new aeroplane-kite which can be "readily dismantled and folded for shipping and easily assembled and placed in position for flying without the use of numerous fastenings and detachable parts, thereby making for simplicity and practicability" (lines 12-17). Also includes wind tunnels and a fuselage frame which is so easily assembled that a child can do it.
- Annunciator.
- Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus for Applying Dry Hot Air to the Face
- Patent for a hot air blowing device for blowing on the face that has adjustable temperature settings.
- Apparatus for Forcing Liquids from Barrels.
- Patent for a new and improved device for extracting liquids from sealed containers. This design utilizes a bellows apparatus, and "by simply compressing [it] air is forced into the space in the barrel or vessel above the liquid, when the pressure of this air will exhaust the liquid through the faucet at the bottom under pressure" (lines 65-70).
- Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute
- Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
- Apparatus for Supplying, Heating, and Burning Crude Oil and Air
- Patent for an apparatus for supplying, heating, and burning crude oil and air for use in heating stoves.
- Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
- Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
- Archaeological Monitoring of the Elm Fork Relief Interceptor Pipeline, Irving, Texas
- A report of an archaeological monitoring of the Elm Fork Relief Interceptor sewer pipeline.
- Arrangement and Construction of Self-Service-Store Fixtures
- Patent for new and useful improvements in arrangement and construction of self-service-store fixtures. This invention provides an arrangement of shelving in sections with other parts of store furnture, the shelving being so arranged and constructed that all available space is economically utilized and at the same time permits the goods displayed on the shelves to be visible from a designated point in the store to avoid surreptitious removal of any goods while providing ample room for customers in their entrance, purchasing, and exit to and from the store.
- Automatic Machine for Manufacturing Mops
- Patent for a machine that will automatically pack yarn strands into the mop handle for quick production of a mop.
- Automatic Street-Calling Device
- Patent for an automatic street calling device for streetcars which says the name of the upcoming street/stop and displays it in the street car.
- Automobile-Signal
- Patent for a device to indicate the intention to make a turn in an automobile, with improvements made for nighttime usage, including illustrations.
- Bailing-Press
- Patent for improvements in bailing presses, for baling cotton and other materials and substances. Baling press have strong and durable organization devices and mechanisms for feeding and pressing cotton.
- Bale-Tie Machine.
- Patent to for a machine to make and count bale-ties, "...to manufacture at small cost machines which will be compact, not taking up much space, and which will e simple in construction and durable" (lines 10-13). It includes an extensive explanation and illustrations.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for a manually operated baling press which bales materials more easily than other presses.
- Bracelet
- Patent for a "friendship bracelet" that has the option of adding or detaching links when necessary.
- Buckle.
- Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists "[i]n a harness-buckle, the combination, with the frame, provided with a tongue-bar having two tongues thereon and a tongue-bar having a single tongue thereon, of a clasp-rest and a hinged clasp near opposite ends of the buckle-frame" (lines 77-82).
- Buckle Fastening
- Patent for buckles fastenings. Illustration included.
- Burglar-Alarm
- Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
- Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine.
- Patent for an improvement on machines that create buttonholes and mark buttonholes. Includes illustrations.
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for improvement in car-couplings by using many separate parts to work together to connect cars; and it can be operated without the operator going between the cars. Illustration is included.
- Chair-Dowel for Building Purposes.
- Patent for a chair dowel for constructing chairs, which puts the whole weight of the chair on top of the columns of the chair rather than the sides.
- Check-Book
- Patent for a foldable check book. Illustration is included.
- Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chemical fire extinguishers, including instructions and illustrations.
- 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.
- Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine
- Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
- Combination Muffler and Air-Heating Device
- Patent for improvement for the muffler to silence the explosive exhaust of the internal combustion engines and to heating fresh air in facilitating the carburetion of liquid fuel oil to a combustible gaseous mixture.
- Combination Show-Case.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in combination show cases, including instructions and illustrations.
- Combined envelop, shipping-tag, and index-card
- An identifying tag to be placed on containers meant to be returned to the sender after delivery of goods.
- 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 Plow and Cultivator.
- Patent for combined plow and cultivator "to provide a manually operated mechanism by which the front and rear plows may be simultaneously adjusted up or down, and held in any position of such adjustment" (lines 11-15).
- 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.
- Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine
- Patent for Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine offers information about the significance of mixing ingredient benefits. The mixing and cleaning machine ease the process for everyday living.
- Cooling Mechanism For Explosive Engines
- Patent for cooling mechanism for explosive engines. Illustration included.
- Cotton and Corn Planter
- Patent for "a durable and illexpensive planter which will serve to plant both corn and cotton in a perfect manner, and thus combine the two machines in one" (lines 11-14).
- Cotton Chopper.
- Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pair of wheels and a main frame mounted loosely thereon, of a shaft journaled therein carrying a pinion and crank-wheel, a hoe adapted to be reciprocated by the crank-wheel, and an operating-lever connected with the shaft and hoe-handle, whereby the shaft is moved laterally and the hoe elevated simultaneously therewith" (lines 41-48).
- Cotton-Cleaner
- Patent for a cotton-cleaner with beveled beaters attached to a central shaft. The shape of the beaters and rotation push the cotton outwards and downwards, thus preventing the cotton from clogging or collecting around the central shaft. Patent includes illustrations.
- Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus.
- Patent for a cotton-cleaning apparatus made up of "a stationary foraminous case or drum having an inlet-opening in the upper side of its small end, a rotary shaft extending centrally through the case or drum and having a plurality of spirally-arranged at the large end of the foraminous case and having a discharge-pipe for conveying the cotton to the point where it is to be deposited or discharged - as, for instance, into gins or gin-feeders" (lines 9-19). The cotton goes in one end, the cotton is elevated, beater-arms move the cotton along, and fans drive the cotton to the gins.
- Cotton-Delinter
- Patent for a durable and inexpensive machine that remove cotton seed from lint.
- Cotton-Gin.
- Patent for cotton gin, which includes a huller roller, seed bar, and seed grate to separate and remove seeds from the cotton. Ginning points/pins are used instead of saws. Due to the positioning of the ginning points/pins, the surface of the ginning cylinder in its entirety is available for ginning and there are fewer mechanical friction points.
- Cotton Harvester
- Patent for a cotton harvester. This invention is designed to spare cotton pickers the physical demands from stooping and back pains. The design allows pickers to sit on running boards along small trucks drawn behind the wagon. Illustration included.
- Cotton Stalk Puller
- Patent for a cotton stalk puller. This invention is a "wheeled farm implement that may be drawn by horse power along a row of cotton stalks and will pull the stalks out of the ground as it passes over them" (line 11-14). Illustrations included.
- Covering for Meats.
- Patent for an aromatic asphaltum and paraffin wrap to preserve, protect from air and moisture, and transport meat that will not become brittle under cold temperatures.
- Crude-Oil Burner.
- Patent for a crude oil burner for heating stoves, which heats the oil to a high temperature to provide faster vaporization of the oil.
- Crude-Oil Burner
- Patent for a crude oil burner used for fuel.
- Cuff-Holder.
- Patent for an improved cuff-holder that is simple and inexpensive, and is "adapted to serve as a sleeve button and a cuff support, and capable of read adjustment to enable the wearer to arrange his cuffs as desired, and to show them beyond the coat sleeve to a greater or less extent" (lines 12-16).
- Decapitator.
- Patent for improvements to decapitator handles which "may be very cheaply produced and will present a broad surface for the hand of the operator which will permit him to exert all necessary pressure without any discomfort to himself" (lines 71-75).
- Design for a Nut-Lock Washer.
- Design patent for a nut-lock washer that consists of an annular disk having a depression on the margin of its inner opening and with an incision cut in from the periphery, forming a tongue.