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- 80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 24
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, February 21, 2007, and ending on Monday, February 26, 2007.
- Artificial Tooth.
- Patent for an artificial tooth with an improved crown so that "it can be attached to the gold cap that has been made to fit the end of the root that is to be crowned, the manner of attaching being materially facilitated" (lines 15-19).
- Automatic Fire Alarm
- Patent for an automatic fire alarm. Illustration included.
- Bag-Rack
- Patent for a rotating bag rack for use in stores.
- Bale Tie Securing Device
- Patent for device that will replace destroyed bale ties.
- Baling Press
- Patent for a baling press. This is an invention designed for use in baling cotton. Illustrations included.
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
- Bottle Washing Apparatus
- Patent for bottle washing machine.
- Bulletin on Texas State Finance: 1987, Number 5
- Periodic bulletin analyzing issues related to Texas legislation. This issue focuses on property appraisals for Texas.
- Burglar Alarm
- Patent for alarm that is activated upon the closing of a circuit, which will occur when an intruding person enters through the window or door.
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide a . . . car-coupling link which automatically uncouples cars in case one or more of the cars runs off the track" (lines 7-10).
- Car-Coupling.
- Patent for an automatic car-coupler that operates without someone having to go to between the cars. It is simple and compact.
- Car-Seat.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
- Carbureting System for Internal Combustion Engines
- Patent for improved carbureting system for combustion engines.
- Carpet Fastening
- Patent for carpet fastening. Illustrations included.
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for a single piece wire clothes pin. Illustration included.
- Combined Clod Crusher and Sod and Stalk Cutter.
- Patent for a new and improved combined crusher of clods and cutter of sod and stalks. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the slotted beam, of the stalk-gathering device consisting of the bent wires or rods forming eyes, and diverging at their lower ends, and held in place by the plate or washers below the beam, and wedge above the beam . . . [and] of the frame, the slotted cross-bar, and the rollers having cutting-blades" (lines 74-83).
- Combined Rotary Harrow and Stalk Cutter or Roller.
- Patent for a new and improved harrow combine. This design "provide[s] a rotary harrow, to be used in combination with a stalk-cutter or roller, for the purpose of harrowing ground and at the same time cutting off the stalks of the preceding crop, or for harrowing in and rolling seed. [The] invention consists in a [novel] combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 11-18).
- Container.
- Patent for new improved containers adapted for the shipment of eggs, including illustrations.
- Cotton-Elevator And Gin-Feeder.
- Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton elevators and gin feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
- Cotton-Gin Building
- Patent for improvements to cotton gin buildings granted to Benjamin F. Ferguson to reduce the risk of fire and the cost of ginning cotton.
- Cultivator
- Patent for Cultivator.
- Cut-Off.
- Patent for a cut-off for water pipes, which provides a new construction to control the flow of supply of water from a roof.
- Electric Bath Apparatus
- Patent for device that allows an electric bath to be taken despite varying degrees of current intensity.
- Focus Report, Volume 74, Number 6, February 1995
- Report on whether or not the state of Texas should allow home equity loans.
- Gasolene Tank Filler and Gage
- Patent for a means of filling a gasoline tank for a motor vehicle with a sight gage for determining the level of gasoline placed in the tank.
- Hub-Wrench.
- Patent for a new and useful hub wrench, including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Button-Hole Scissors.
- Improved Button Hole scissors, where the scissors may be "adjusted vertically for suitable Cutting Hole length"(pg 2). The scissors have a "v-shaped" button hole cutter that can be adjusted to pierce the fabric at a desired depth and a tracing wheel.
- Improvement in Fire-Place Fenders.
- Patent for "an extensible fender adapted for large or small fire-places" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in fluting-iron
- Patent for an improvement in fluting iron, involving a hollow smoothing and glossing iron.
- Improvement in Hand-Cultivators.
- Patent for "hand-cultivators; and the novelty consists in the improved construction and arrangement of the stock, tongue, and plows; and in the application to the end of the tongue of a shoulder-strap to assist in working the implement." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for the, "improvement in the auxiliary blades attatched to plows...[and] in the improved method of constructing and attaching the blade to a plow, so that it can be shifted and adjusted in different positions" (lines 14-21). Illustrations included.
- Improvement in Reciprocating Churns
- Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
- Patent for, "an improved construction and arrangement of vapor-burner, by which the same is readily lighted, adjusted to a larger or smaller flame, or extinguished" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
- Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, February 27, 2013
- Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the twentieth day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Lock.
- Patent for "locking the control pedals of a motor vehicle from movement in either direction, the said lock being arranged between the pedals and arranged to simultaneously engage and lock both" (lines 9-14).
- Machine For Compressing Baled Hay.
- Patent for a machine for compressing baled hay to a "greater density" (line 16). Can also be used to compress loose hay or other similar materials.
- Manufacture of Aluminum Chlorid
- Patent for method of making aluminum chlorid, where a form of hydrated alumina is combined with coking coal, and then exposed to heat and chlorin/chlorin containing gas.
- Mattress-Making Machine.
- Patent for a mattress making machine that is more simple but equally-efficient as previous mattress making machines. This patent is an improvement to the inventor's previous patent, No. 679,809.
- Music-Leaf Turner.
- Patent for an automatic page turner for an organ or piano. The pages can be turned right or left, and the mechanism is operated using foot pressure.
- Oscillatory Engine.
- Patent for a new and useful oscillatory engine, including instructions and illustrations.
- Pipe Lifting and Lowering Jack.
- Patent for a pipe lifting and lowering jack that will hold pipes at various positions in wells.
- Planting Attachment For Cultivators.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planting attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Plunger.
- Patent for a plunger for use in pumps and air compressors that fits tightly into the cylinders of the machine.
- [Program: Statewide Conference on Technical, Vocational, Adult Education 1980]
- Program for the Statewide Conference on Technical, Vocational. Adult Education held February 12-13, 1980 including schedules, presenter biographies, general information, etc.
- Rotary Engine.
- Patent for a stably constructed and effective rotary engine in which "the full effect of live steam under a full head can be attained at all times on the drive shaft" (lines 12-14).
- Saw-Filing Machine.
- Patent for a saw filing machine that keeps the teeth of saws properly aligned, while they are being sharpened.
- Scraper.
- Patent for a scraper for floors and walls that attaches to a broom handle.
- Silo Chute
- Patent for discharging chute on a silo.
- Skiving Machine
- Patent for a skiving device. This invention is adapted to skive leather straps with intent for use as harness and belting. Illustration included.