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Automatic Railway Switch
Patent for an automatic railway switch. Illustration included.
Date:
September 19, 1905
Creator:
Ditmars, Frederick R. S. & Hendrix, A. S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck.
Patent for a new and improved car-truck. This design "relates to railway-car trucks; and it consists in providing the axle inside the wheel with a supplementary journal and shoulder and a supplementary journal-box supported above the inside journal by the truck-frame, said supplementary journal-box being immediately over the inside journal and arranged so as to support the truck on the inside journal should the outside journal become broken or inoperative by means of a hot box or otherwise" (lines 10-20).
Date:
September 11, 1888
Creator:
Tull, Francis Shalis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Berth.
Patent for a new and improved car berth. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a car formed with an opening, recess, or compartment, of a berth consisting of a series of parallel slats connected together by flexible connections and adapted to be rolled up . . . and end supports adapted to be independently folded each upon itself, so that they may be concealed below the rolled berth, the inner side of the berth and the inner ends of the supports being secured within the opening" (lines 49-58).
Date:
September 27, 1887
Creator:
Tull, Francis Schales
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses by “simplify and strengthen the frame and operating parts, to secure a better distribution of the strains between the operating parts and the frame, and to increase the speed at which the press may be operated by permitting the platen to rise and fall to a limited extent independent of the power mechanism, so that after the loose fiber is introduced the platen may be dropped instantly a portion of the distance to effect a partial compression of the charge by its weight before bringing the power mechanism into play.” (Lines 17-29) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
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
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-318
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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Galveston County is authorized to pay for gasoline used by its Sheriff in privately owned motor boats that are used in the performance of his official duties.
Date:
September 28, 1964
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-147
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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Expiration date of current term of the Judge of the Court of Domestic Relation for Galveston County.
Date:
September 24, 1963
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
High Island Independent School District, September 2006
This report reviews the management and performance of the High Island Independent School District's (HISD'S) educational, Financial, and operational functions.
Date:
September 22, 2006
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Gulf Coast, September 2011
List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Gulf Coast Texas area.
Date:
September 2011
Creator:
Primary Care Case Management
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Plug
Patent for improvement of spark-plugs, an automotive engine component.
Date:
September 2, 1919
Creator:
Hill, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for "improvements in locks, having special reference to locks for the doors of freight-cars; and it has for its object to provide a strong lock so constructed as to be comparatively safe from the attacks of lockpickers" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 11, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine
Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date:
September 29, 1914
Creator:
Clough, George Golden
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Shishmanian, George N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design consists in "a fan casing, constructed and arranged . . . of the fan arranged therein, the gearing placed above the fan, the air-ducts leading to the fan-chamber, the endless weighted chain or cord, and drums and pulleys . . . [and] an open bottom secured to a ceiling and communicating with air-ducts passing between the floor and ceiling of a building" (lines 80-90).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Garfield, John Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Wyckoff, Cornerius P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hodges, John C., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hydraulic Packings
Patent for an improvement in hydraulic packing for use in hydraulic rams. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 6, 1898
Creator:
Rogers, Alexander Hunter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Compresor.
Patent for a hydraulic compressor meant to press cotton using the minimum amount of weight and the maximum amount of strength.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Handling Device.
Patent for a mail handling device that mounts into a train car to assist in loading and unloading of mail bags.
Date:
September 11, 1917
Creator:
Kost, Joseph L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "to utilize a heretofore waste product, and by means of a dry process to reduce the same to fine particles, which, being capable of felting, constitute stock" (lines 14-18).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design "consists in the construction and arrangement of devices by means of which the sparks are extinguished and the cinders distributed on the road-bed, while the fine dust is delivered into the ash-box" (lines 19-23).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History