80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1180, Chapter 1317 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1180, Chapter 1317

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of the DeWitt Medical District.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Wagon Tires. (open access)

Coupling for Wagon Tires.

Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the wheel-fellies, one of which has a longitudinal socket, of the overlapping sections secured to the contiguous ends of the tire, and having projecting lugs, an adjusting-bolt carried by one of the lugs and bearing against the other lug, and a protecting-plate having a threaded opening for the passage of the bolt and interposed between the end of the felly in which [a] socket is formed, and the lug adjacent thereto" (lines 80-90).
Date: June 15, 1886
Creator: Simon, Henry Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History