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Biennial Report to the 79th Texas Legislature: State Office of Risk Management, Revised

Description: Biennial report to the Texas Legislature describing the activities of the State Office of Risk Management (SORM) during fiscal years 2003 and 2004, including information on state agency financing, claims, losses, and expenditures. This copy includes amendments to the first seven pages of the original report.
Date: January 12, 2005
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.

Biennial report to the 87nd Texas legislature

Description: This is the the State Office of Risk Management Biennial Report, as the guidelines for oversight in developing and maintaining effective risk management programs; specialized assistance and training; comprehensive data collection, monitoring, and analysis; and the workers’ compensation program.
Date: January 12, 2021
Creator: Texas. State Office of Risk Management.

Change-Maker.

Description: Patent for "improvements in money-drawers which are designed to separate the coin placed therein according to the various denominations, and at the same time providing means whereby change may be readily had" (lines 8-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Johnson, William W.

Compress.

Description: Patent for "surgical instruments which are used for stopping the flow of blood during an amputation or other similar operation." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Burton, Edwin L.

Cotton Elevator and Distributer.

Description: Patent for cotton elevators and distributors "whereby the cotton and air shall be separated in a simple and efficient manner and the air discharged from the suction-fan with the least possible degree of friction and back pressure." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.

Cotton-Ginning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improvement to cotton gins, allowing them to be constructed from a series of continuous shafts instead of pulleys, belts, and bearings. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1892
Creator: Murray, Stephen Douglas

Door-Lock

Description: Patent for a lock which can be attached to either a right-hand or left-hand door and operated from either side. When locked from the inside, a shutter will prevent the door from being unlocked from the outside until released again from the inside.
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Wilson, Ira W.

Easel

Description: Patent for an easel that has a sliding picture-rest, which is has a "clutch mechanism for holding the sliding rest at any desired elevation" (lines 11-14). It also has a "auxiliary folding rest for holding a model or study while the artist is engaged at work" (lines 20-22), which can be folded up when finished.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Cooper, Harry

Electric Railway.

Description: Patent for an electric railway that has the electric conductor on or under the ground, in a tube. The tube gets electricity to the trains via contact-pieces embedded in the tube, and it collapses whenever the train wheels go over it. The tube and conductor are kept safe in a u-shaped hanger underground.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Lomb, George W. C.

Improved Baling-Press.

Description: Patent for improvements in portable press by dividing the pressing-chamber into two parts, one of which is fixed to the wagon-frame, the other part is movable. “The movable part contains the follower, adapted to be titled with it, and operated by the winding-drum, cords, wheel and the wings, working in the horizontal slots in the sides of these parts.” (Lines 81-85) Illustration is included.
Date: January 12, 1869
Creator: Berkeley, J.

Improvement to Lifting-Jacks

Description: Patent for the improvement of the lifting jack which allows the user to "lower the lifting bar by a step-by-step movement as well as to elevate the lifting bar by such a movement (lines 12-14). Includes instructions and illustration."
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Parker, Charles W. & Wittliff, Theodore H.
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