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80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4042, Chapter 958
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the powers and duties of the Sunfield Municipal Utility District No. 4 regarding elections and road projects; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4043, Chapter 959
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the powers and duties of the Sunfield Municipal Utility District No. 1 regarding elections and road projects; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4056, Chapter 961
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Hays County Municipal Utility District No. 6; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 88
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives supporting the protection of Jacob's Well and the associated missions and regional conservation initiatives of the Wimberley Valley Watershed Association.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Stitching-Horse.
Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.
Date:
October 27, 1868
Creator:
Depp, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chairs.
Patent for improvements in chairs: "the back, seat, foot rest, and head rest are all self adjusting, and operated by the natural movements of the occupant" (lines 11-13).
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for improvement in seed-planters that is able to plant different kinds of seed by simply adjust the position of the lower ends of the end-plates in the seed-box. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 27, 1869
Creator:
Haupt, W. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Hart, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.
Date:
July 21, 1874
Creator:
Mitchell, Daniel Chasteen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Dixon, Shadrach
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chairs.
Patent for improvement in chairs consisting of self-adjusting chair-backs.
Date:
November 5, 1872
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs
Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Stukes, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Basket.
Patent for a metallic produce basket. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 16, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an automatic churn, which churns up and down and rotationally. To operate, turn a crank and a gear inside the churn moves the blades.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Rogers, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame.
Patent for a bit-brace with right-angled V-guide frame, with description and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace.
Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Franks, Lewis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.
Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Dailey, Basil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "form[s] the central opening of the draw-bar with a tup-bar having rearwardly a spiral spring. The forward end of this tup-bar is inclined forwardly somewhat at an angle at the top, so that when the said bar is pushed forward by the spiral spring at its rear end, the coupling-pin will rest upon this forwardly-projecting end of the bar, while the link will rest beneath, so that in dropping the pin will rest within the link, and not on the outer side, which would be the case if this bar were square" (lines 15-26).
Date:
December 15, 1885
Creator:
McAllister, Sanders F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design consists in "[t]he bar having the nut-wrench and the hammer-head formed at one end, the pipe-wrench formed at the opposite end, and the slot made in one side, the spring located in the bottom of the slot or opening, and the blade pivoted in one end of the slot or opening and bearing on the free end of the spring, the said blade forming a screw-driver" (lines 52-59).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Wright, Augustus Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan.
Patent for a new and improved automatic fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the attaching-plate, the depending rod, the fixed plate on the lower end thereof, the socket arms pivotally connected to said plate at their inner ends, and the fans held in the sockets in said arms, of the plate loosely mounted on the rod above [the] plate, having arms, the rods pivotally connecting the outer ends of said arms, the pitman connected to [another] plate, and the operating crank" (lines 67-76).
Date:
October 9, 1888
Creator:
Goodspeed, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Boring Holes, &c.
Patent for a brace for boring holes through window sashes. It was invented "to enable [the inventor] the more quickly and better to apply my "sash lock", patented July 19, 1892, and numbered 479,152, but may be used for other purposes" (lines 20-23).
Date:
February 13, 1894
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvement to train brakes by using a car brake apparatus.
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Sledge, Clarence Linden
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History