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80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1763, Chapter 60
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the Harris County Board of Protective Services for Children and Adults.
Date:
2007-03/2007-05
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 22
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives congratulating the University of Houston System community and declaring February 20, 2007, University of Houston System Day at the Capitol.
Date:
March 10, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows.
Patent for an improvement upon subsoil plows, using a series of spades arranged upon the same pulleyed rotary shaft, combined with furrow-opening plows.
Date:
March 28, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
Patent for new and useful improvement in wagon hubs that includes one-piece attachment and spokes that can be cut by metal strips by exposed to no injury, including illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1873
Creator:
McNalley, Michael
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Proof Joints for Roofing-Boards.
Patent for the improvement of water-proof joints for roofing-boards, including illustrations.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
Beazely, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Balanced Valves.
Patent for an improvement in the design of balanced slide valves for steam and other engines, including illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1873
Creator:
Fitzsimmons, Henry.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Boyle, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.
Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Fitzgerald, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn power. This design "relates to improvements in churn powers; and it consists of a plunger-shaft so connected to a wheel by means of a loose rod as to alternately raise or lower said shaft as the wheel rotates. The object of the invention is to accomplish the up-and-down motion and consequent agitation without the usual amount of labor" (lines 9-16).
Date:
March 31, 1885
Creator:
Patton, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle.
Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration.
Date:
March 31, 1891
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved car wheel. This design "consists in the combination, with a railroad-car axle having wheel-bearings of equal diameter throughout their whole lengths, of wheels the peripheries of which are provided with central flanges dividing each into two treads, the said wheels adapted to be pressed on the said bearings aforesaid, and to be removed therefrom, reversed, and again pressed thereon whenever the wear of the first tread shall render the same necessary" (lines 12-21).
Date:
March 25, 1884
Creator:
Melvin, Josiah W. & Clute, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator.
Patent for a new and improved lubricator. This design "relates to improvements in that class of lubricators wherein the oil reservoir or vessel is provided with a discharge-pipe passing through the bottom to the point of delivery, and rising within the reservoir to near its top, the steam rising in such pipe condensing and falling by gravity to the bottom of the reservoir, thus displacing the oil, and causing it to rise and flow down through the pipe to the parts to be lubricated" (lines 8-17).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Bissett, Jean
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching Device for Fence Posts.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a fence-post, the coupled pulleys mounted thereon and adapted to be simultaneously rotated, independent fence-wires extending in opposite directions and attached to one of the pulleys at points thereon that are arranged close together, and binding-sleeves for preventing the rotation of the pulleys after the wires have been stretched" (lines 14-21).
Date:
March 16, 1886
Creator:
Priday, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
Patent for "new and Improved Vapor-Burner." (lines 3-4)
Date:
March 26, 1878
Creator:
Sawyer, Frederick A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists, "with the standard and blade, of the removable L-shaped landside bar or plate, having one part or arm secured by a bolt or otherwise between the upper part of the blade and standard and the other part or arm standing at about right angles backward to resist the mold-board thrust as a landside" (lines 5-12).
Date:
March 4, 1890
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Manufacturing Soap.
Patent for an improved process designed "to lessen the time required for the manufacture of soaps and at the same time have all portions of a mass thereof of uniform character, also to make more soap from the same amount of fat or oils than is now done by the ordinary processes." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Grant, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a device that is attached to a saddle in order to distribute insecticide to cotton and other crops while riding through the fields.
Date:
November 28, 1891
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Submarine Channel Protection.
Patent for new and improved submarine channel protection. This design "consist[s] of two walls approximately parallel with each other extending across the sand-bar, and a barrier consisting of inclined wings extending from the side walls to the center of the channel, and a filling in rear of the wings" (lines 46-51).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Mauermann, Albert J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay and Cotton Press.
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).
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Hampton, John Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the center bar, the adjustable sweep, and the saddle . . . [the] longitudinal center bar extending below the base of the sweep and having the pointed nose and the fan-shaped lip" (lines 85-90).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Ejector for Baling Presses.
Patent for a new and improved ejector for baling presses. This design "consists in the combination, with a baling-press follower having channels with inclines and recesses at their rear ends, of trucks provided with ropes or chains, pulleys, pulley-segments having arms, and stationary arms for drawing the trucks forward, and with ropes or chains, pulleys, and weights for drawing the truck rearward. The trucks have recesses with inclined shoulders in their sides to receive prongs having front and rear shoulders, and attached to pins pivoted to the said trucks" (lines 29-40).
Date:
March 24, 1885
Creator:
Duval, John Lum
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5935
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: Authority of Harris County to proceed by condemnation or otherwise for additional right-of-way and to expand its funds for maintenance of a portion of the right-of-way during the proceedings .
Date:
March 15, 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-60
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: The authority of the State Board of Control to sell or lease State owned tidelands in Clear Creek, Harris County, Texas, for the purpose of constructing piers, boat docks, fishing cabins, residences, etc.
Date:
March 19, 1957
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1007
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?
Date:
March 6, 1961
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History