Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Refunding of Grayson County Road Improvement Refunding Bonds, dated February 15, 1923.

Patent for a hoe with "a colter shank at the oval top, affording means whereby the hoe may clear itself from large branching weeds, which is frequently a trouble met with in using hoes having a shank in the center."

Patent for "a fan which will operate in a continuous and highly efficient manner and increase the air pressure with a reduced power of operation" and "may be used either in conjunction with a cotton gin...or it may be used for any other purpose where suction or blast fans are used" (lines 31-33, 10-15). It includes an illustration.

Patent for an improved plaiting device that simplifies the steaming and pressing of dress goods.

Patent for a cake-stripping machine which provides novel means for stripping cloth off the oil cake. It is also to provide means for trimming the cake after the cloth has been stripped off the cake. The scope of the invention is to improve generally and enhance the utility of devices of that type.

Patent for a sanitary dry closet commode for areas that do not have a sewerage or water works system. The commode is "readily cleaned, simple in construction, practically odorless, and adapted to be emptied with facility" (lines 15-18). The patent includes illustrations.

Patent for a turbine engine powered by steam.

Patent for a suspension bridge, which prevents vertical motion of the floor of the bridge and is cheaper to build than other models.

Patent for a wheel hub, which has anti friction parts inside of it.

Patent for sugared nut candy. No illustration.

Patent for an improved self-setting trap that can capture and kill animals while preventing them from reaching the bait.

Patent for a rocking chair fan. Illustration included.

Patent for "valve-stem packing for locomotives and steam engines." (lines 8,9) including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for "an improved cotton-compress adapted to be used in connection with a cotton-baling press for increasing the density and reducing the size of the bales formed in the press."

Patent for a seeder used for sowing small grain including illustrations.

Patent for new and useful improvements in ballast scrapers, including instructions and illustrations.

Design patent for a pocket-cuspidor with a bowl that has an approximately trunco-conical shape.

Patent for a new and useful railroad rail, including instructions and illustrations.

Design patent for a tack or nail that is both useful and ornamental.

Patent for a railway car that runs close to the railroad tracks, to prevent damage should it become derailed or in another accident. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a simple and durable punching-machine for metalworking that punching metal and feeds it forward. The invention is made up of " a carriage adapted to support the sheet to be punched, and provided with a toothed bar, a rock shaft carrying a pawl adapted to engage the said toothed bar to move the carriage forward, and a punch lever adapted to receive a swinging motion from the said shaft, the said lever being connected with the punch to move the latter downward to punch the sheet" (lines 14-22).

Patent for an graduating valve that is used with air brake systems in railroad trains. The invention is meant to "produce a comparatively simple valve which is constructed in such a way that it is not likely to clog or get out of order, which is arranged so that successive regular reductions may be easily made in the pressure of air in the train service pipe, which is adapted to automatically act on the governor of the air pipe from pressure either above or below the main valve, which is constructed in such a way that if the train parts the pressure in the main reservoir will not be reduced, which generates excess pressure when the brake handle is in running position and acts through said excess pressure on the governor of the pump, which is not likely to leak, and which in general may be easily controlled and places the train brakes under the complete control of the engineer" (lines 11-29).

Patent for a nut lock meant to be used with railway joints and fish plates. It has a slotted locking plat that sits between two nuts and can be removed. It is simple and inexpensive, easy to use, and effective.

Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design is "so constructed as to permit of its ready adjustment to different gates, and also its adjustment, as may be required, subsequent to its attachment to the gate, without necessitating its removal" (lines 20-24). It "compris[es] the latch-bar having therein a longitudinal slot, the arm connected to the intermediate portion of said bar by a bolt or pin passing adjustably through said slot, said arm being curved forwardly at its upper portion, and a transverse handle-bar rigidly secured to the upper end of said arm" (lines 84-91).