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Texas Safety Action Report
Report regarding immediate and future actions to improve safety for Texans related to mass shootings and other attacks, and including explanations of relevant executive orders.
Date:
September 12, 2019
Creator:
Abbott, Greg, 1957-
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch and Signal System
Patent for a switch and signal system to be used for railroad signaling and to prevent trains on different tracks from colliding. (lines 12-22)
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Adams, Edwin J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp.
Patent for guard rail clamps to securely clasp guard rails with the main rail with features such as spikes and braces.
Date:
March 12, 1912
Creator:
Akers, Harry R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cable Reeling and Pulling Truck
Patent for the cable reeling and pulling truck. This invention was made to ease the process of cable reeling and pulling by trucks and for improvements to the safety of this process. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
February 12, 1918
Creator:
Alberts, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for new and useful improvements to the Vehicle-Wheel. Tire may be formed into a disk wheel constructed with nuts, bolts, rivets, and screws to compensate for any regular and irregular pressure stresses a tire may be subjected to on a road. A further improvement is to provide a more resilient disk wheel to have more durability and longer use on the road.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Allan, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.
Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1846
Creator:
Allen, Augustus C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Spout Barrier
Patent for "a feel spout barrier for slime thickeners, settling tanks, separating tanks and the like" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Allen, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reel
Patent for an improvement in reels. The reel features improvements in how to attach the end of a film strip to the reel for winding.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Allen, Harry Porter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traction Engine.
Patent for an improved version of traction engine with ambulatory wheels that improve the design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Altgelt, Herman E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator Shipping-Box.
Patent for a "new and useful Improvement in Shipping Boxes" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Andrews, Otis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Ankarstolpe, Nels.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring
Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date:
May 12, 1917
Creator:
Annan, Alfred H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Valve.
Patent for a water valve for water delivery systems that does not have standing water around it that can freeze in cold weather.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Anthony, Joseph B. & Morris, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with a draw-head, of an L-shaped lever pivoted in the same and provided at its angle with a lug, which L-shaped lever has a coupling-pin suspended from the end of the long arm, and has its short arm passed into an aperture in the inner end of a bar sliding in the bottom of the draw-head, whereby when the lug is depressed the coupling-pin will be raised and the bar in the draw-head will push the link out from the end of the draw-head" (lines 7-17).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Appell, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a combination tool that is "adapted without changing any of its parts to operate as a nut and pipe wrench, pliers, hammer, screw-driver, and nail-extractor." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Armstrong, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thread-Cabinet.
Patent "...relates to cabinets for spooladapted to contain spools of thread of different sizes and from which the spools may be easily extracted one at a time" (lines 7-11) including illustrations and descriptions.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Armstrong, John, S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for "an improved lifting-jack designed expressly for track-levelers, although the construction may be varied for other purposes." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1896
Creator:
Arnold, Raiford A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator
Patent for improvements to a disk cultivators which allows for the disks to hit the ground at various angles, thus improving cultivation,
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Atkinson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Soft Candy.
Patent for bee feeder device that allows bees to have access to food during transport. The feeder also is designed to prevent any running and clogging, while minimizing bee death due to starvation.
Date:
July 12, 1921
Creator:
Ault, Eugene B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Semi-Automatic Steering Gear Operating Mechanism
Patent for Semi-automatic Steering Gear Operating Mechanism
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Austin, Frank W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton-choppers by using a crown-wheel attached to one of the ground-wheels of the chopper. When the ground wheels impart motion to the crown wheel, which in turn communicates motion to the pinions of the shaft. This shaft drives the two sprocket-wheels; the sprocket wheel that located in the rear portions of the crank-shaft imparts motion to the crank-shaft, which drives the vertical choppers. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Baggett, Neil Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Napkin Ring and Holder.
Patent for a new and improved napkin ring and holder. This design is "to receive the napkin after it is folded, or to be used as a device for sustaining the napkin at the neck of the user when at the table. It consists in a yoke-shaped piece of metal having a hinged section for connecting the two ends, and serving as a ring, in combination with a clasp for holding the napkin . . . at the throat" (lines 17-25).
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Bahn, Gus A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pruning Implement.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient pruning implement meant to prune trees, cutting brush, and trimming hedges. It has a reciprocating knife, an improved hatchet-blade, and an extensible saw-blade "which is seated within a groove or recess in the shank of the implement and capable of being extended and held in operative position by means of a retaining-spring" (lines 16-20).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Baiey, George M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for an automatic fan that attaches to a rocking chair or cradle and rotates as the chair or cradle rocks. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Bailey, Israel S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History