Patent for a process that claims to preserve meat. The patent includes only instructions and no illustrations.

Patent for rotary engines "driven by steam or other elastic agent, or which may be used for pumping water" (lines 29-32) to obtain "a more direct application of the force applied to drive the engine" (lines 39-40) including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for improved railway car-brakes, including illustrations.

Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.

Patent for concepts and designs used to improve performance of Spark-Arresters used in the smoke stacks of locomotives with illustrations and instructions.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Steam-Engine Valve-Gears." The invention consists in "combining with a crank-shaft and a valve-shaft a lever, shaft, and two friction-wheels" (lines 4-9)

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is for "[a]n improved device for retaining a compressed bale in its condensed state after the follower is withdrawn, which consists of pawls pivoted in holes in the sides of the press-box and projecting toward the rear end of the press-box . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the follower rack-bar, the pinions, the shafts, having suitable pulleys, adapted to be connected by belts, of two clutches, and a centrally-pivoted lever having [a] handle, whereby the power may be reversed without changing the direction of the drive-shaft" (lines 71-83).

Patent for a cultivator for cotton and or corn.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Application of Article 2900a to the Houston Independent School District under the facts stated.

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County Health Officer of Harris County is authorized to enter into, examine, investigate, inspect and view any ground, public building, factory, slaughter house, etc., and any other public place where he deems it proper for the enforcement of the rules of the sanitary code for Texas and of any health law, sanitary law or quarantine regulation of this State?

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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Harris County to provide certain potable water facilities.

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Water Code section 53.063(2), requiring a fresh-water-supply district supervisor to own land in the district, and a parallel provision in the Brookshire-Katy Drainage District's enabling act violate the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, and related question (RQ-983)

Patent for an umbrella. Illustration included.

Patent for mechanism for converting motion. "The present invention relates to mechanism for converting reciprocatory into rotary motion; and the objects are to provide a practical apparatus of this character in which rotary motion may be imparted to a driven member without occasioning any dead-centers and to provide simple means reversing the direction of motion of the driven member" (line 10-19). Illustrations included.

Patent for a washing machine. Illustration included.

Patent for a shutter hinge made of sheet metal which does not creak in the wind and is sturdier than older hinges made of cast metal.

Patent for a wind stacker to be adapted to threshers. Illustrations included.

Patent for a rotary engine. This invention consists of a "stationary jacket and a rotor revoluble therein with a maximum degree of power and a minimum of friction" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.

Patent for a cotton picking machine. Illustrations included.

Patent for an improved blade-holder that is simple in construction and can be manufactured at a lower cost. It is designed to "permit of the blades being readily and quickly assembled in the holder and permanently clamped therein to prevent any accidental displacement or movement of the blades from such holder during the stropping." (lines 16-21), including illustrations.

Patent for rotary boring drill with explanation and the accompanying illustrations.

Patent for belt tighteners for well pumps which decreases the amount of force necessary to tighten a pump. Patent includes instructions and illustrations.

Patent for an improvement in sealing capabilities for water pump valves, including illustrations.

Patent for automobiles to lock the steering shaft so that it is un-driveable and cannot be stolen and driven away without the key.