Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.

Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.

Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.

Patent for a spring motor attachment for automobiles.

Patent for a new phonograph machine with improvements of sound-box-transversing mechanisms and uniformity of movements, including illustrations.

Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).

Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).

Patent for a lamp chimney that prevents insects from falling into the chimney and keeps the flame inside the chimney.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the distribution of assessments charged by Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the operation of Texas A&M University--San Antonio, including the student enrollment required for operation as an independent general academic teaching institution and supplemental funding of the university.

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority to use the proceeds of a sales and use tax for a streetcar project in light of certain representations that were made preceding and election to create an advanced transportation district (RQ-1048-GA)

Patent for improvement in the safety of tie and rail-joints. Improves the connection so that independent movement of the tie and rail is reduced.

Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.

Patent for an affordable and efficient coupling device for use "on valve rods of internal combustion engines, especially those used in automobiles and aeroplanes or on those motors or engines employing overhead valves and whereby the union or coupling may be readily and securely locked on a valve rod with sufficient resistance to withstand the strain of direct pressure" (lines 14-21).

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a court reporter by a criminal law magistrate in Bexar County.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the authority of the Bexar County Hospital District to employ physicians.

Annual report about the overall condition of the East Central Independent School District in San Antonio, providing statistics and assessments for the 1993-1994 school year.

A report on the plans and priorities of the Economic Opportunities Development Corporation of San Antonio and Bexar County based on results from a community survey on October 30, 1970 as part of an application for the Office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program.

Patent for a gradometer "which will accurately indicate under the most varying and unstable conditions the inclination and declination at which any moving body is traveling" (lines 10-13). The gradometer is "particularly adapted for use on motor vehicles" (lines 15-16).

Patent for a tube expander for setting boiler tubes in the holes in the tube-sheet, which provides simplicity and improvement of its construction.

Patent for a lawn rocker improvement that provides swing and is durable and inexpensive.

Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.