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Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Metroplex, September 2011
List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area.
Date:
September 2011
Creator:
Primary Care Case Management
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: The Metroplex Region
Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Metroplex Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date:
September 2002
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Attachment
Patent for improved attachments for cotton gins. Useful amendments include the improvement of the function of "moving and regulating the feeding of cotton to the gin and the ejection of refuse, hulls and chaff." (lines 13-15). This is accomplished with the addition of a mechanism that "at regular intervals, close the feeder, open the gin breast and discharge the hulls and waste and again close the gin and open the feeder." (lines 37-40).
Date:
September 26, 1922
Creator:
Hooton, Claude A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.
Patent for an apparatus that improved the cleaning process for machine-processed boll cotton. The invention made it possible to extract more lint cotton from closed bolls which were typically unharvestable by traditional machine-based cotton gins. The machine also improved success in late fall or winter cotton harvesting by allowing bolls containing hard-to-reach cotton to be processed.
Date:
September 4, 1918
Creator:
Blackmon, Enoch J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display Device for Doors.
Patent for a display case that may be fastened to a door with glass panes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Nunn, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Can Spout.
Patent for an oil can spout that is used as a connection to a dispensing can which serves as a spout and as a stopper. This spout is easily installed and removed when desired, this spout also prevents accidental removal while handling.
Date:
September 9, 1913
Creator:
Melvin, Joe D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss
Patent for a truss for the use of alleviating abdominal hernias. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Baker, Littleton Lafayette
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for an ant trap with a removable bottom which allows the trap to be emptied easily.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Miller, Charles R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Column Turning Lathe
Patent for a wood column turning lathe. Illustration included.
Date:
September 10, 1907
Creator:
Bible, Hunley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Mixing Ingredients
Patent for a process of mixing ingredients. This invention is designed to mix dry state materials to a level moisture to be used for making shale brick. Illustration included.
Date:
September 11, 1906
Creator:
Nash, Alexander Q.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
Shreeves, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Hook
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Hame-Hooks." (lines 5-6). "The object of the invention is to provide a hame-hook which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and by means of which the tug or trace chain may be easily attached to the hame at various heights and be securely retained in position." (lines 12-18)
Date:
September 23, 1902
Creator:
Lindsay, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper that has advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency because it is adapted to operate crosswise with relation to the rows.
Date:
September 16, 1902
Creator:
Fay, Louis Percy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a "new and useful Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid" (lines 5-7) that will aid in the commercially successful production. Patent includes specifications for the composition of matter.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Blum, Sylvain; Eldridge, Hillary; Clark, Daniel J. & Lazarus, Sam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Portable Baling-Press
Patent for a "combined rake and portable baling-press, the objects in view being to provide a machine of the above class of comparatively cheap and simple construction and adapted to rake, elevate, deliver, pack, and bale hay and to apply the binding wires to the bales as formed in one continuous operation" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 7, 1892
Creator:
Shero, Christopher C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge
Patent for a more easily constructible "bridge the pillar or roadway of which is adjustable to different heights, and to meet certain contingencies and while adjustable as a whole is also adjustable at any point whatsoever, whereby the roadway may be maintained level regardless of the yielding of certain portions of the structure" (lines 11-17).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Greer, William Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Building Machine
Patent for providing "for the weaving or construction of a picket fence by means of a simple and inexpensive machine, but one which will insure a proper binding of the pickets between the several strands of supporting-wire" (lines 10-14).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Kline, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design "relates to devices for tightening the wires of a wire fence whether in the act of building the latter or after it has been put up and the wire is stretched thereon; and the invention consists of a metallic lever-arm adapted to be seated and adapted to turn in a hole in the fence-post, and upon whose body the wire is tightened as the arm is revolved" (lines 9-16).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Jinkins, Thomas William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "relates to improvements in motors in which a screw or spiral operates in conjunction with suitable gearing; and the object of my improvement is to convert a vertically-reciprocating motion into a rotary for driving any light machinery" (lines 15-20).
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Chisholm, Toliver Lynn
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design is "to provide a spring-power and suitable gearing for operating the dasher, with a view of rendering the same in a high degree effective, convenient, and especially adapted to the requirements of service; [and], to afford facilities for the proper adjustment of the device to the different sizes of churns, and to provide for the quick and convenient detaching of the churn from the driving mechanism" (lines 12-21).
Date:
September 30, 1884
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design "relates to car-couplings; and it has for its object to provide improved devices whereby the cars may be automatically coupled; and further, to provide improved devices for this purpose which shall be simple in construction and thoroughly effective in operation" (10-16).
Date:
September 23, 1884
Creator:
Reid, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design is for a double buckle, "of such a construction that secure fastenings may be obtained, and the two ends of a strap or the adjacent ends of different straps may be readily secured together in a reliable manner, thus admitting of the speedy manufacture of sets of harnesses" (lines 13-18). This eliminates the need for rivets or stitching the strap(s).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Bills, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tanning Compound.
Patent for a new compound used for tanning hides and skins of all kinds. It lists the ingredients and their proportions. “The principal advantage of the compound is that its action on the hides is speedy” (lines 27-28).
Date:
September 15, 1882
Creator:
Hayden, Charles Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists "[i]n a swinging gate pivoted at its lower inner end and suspended by a diagonal wire, upon which it swings in being opened and closed, the adjustable bar provided with a depending loop or staple for the suspending-wire, the point of suspension by said loop, being between the latch end of the gate and a vertical line drawn through its pivot-pin" (lines 51-58).
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Miller, Wilson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History