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79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3520, Chapter 1327
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the distribution of assessments charged by Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2441, Chapter 1285
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the recreational facility fee at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a Medicaid health literacy pilot program and health care funding districts in certain counties and authorizing the districts to impose taxes on certain institutional health care providers located in the districts.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling that can be operated without going between cars. The coupling facilitates "the coupling of cars having drawheads at the same and different heights by readily guiding the link of one of them into the other" (lines 14-17).
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Loading Fire-Arm.
Patent for breech-loaded fire-arms, with illustrations. The purpose of the breech-loaded fire-arms was to improve existing fire-arms by allowing for a method to prevent accidental discharge.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Schraud, Franz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench and Cutter.
Patent for a simple, durable, and economic wrench and cutter that is easily used to turn nuts, pipes, or to cut pipes. The wrench does not need to be removed while cutting.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Fletcher, Theodore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn Mower.
Patent for a new and improved lawn-mower. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bifurcated frame, a driving-wheel supported therein, gears secured to opposite sides of said wheel, inclined pitmen-driving shafts carrying at their inner ends pinions to engage said gears, guide-plates supported by the lower and forward end of the frame, cutters provided with slots and supported between said guide-plates, pitmen connecting the cutters and shafts, and adjusting-screws applied to said plates and cutters" (lines 23-33).
Date:
September 18, 1888
Creator:
Grothaus, Frederick E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Cloth Fan for the Destruction of Insects.
Patent for an improved fly-swatting fan that employs wire mesh to create less of a shadow so that the user has more of a chance to hit the insect. This improved fan also allows for easier flow of air that creates less of an air flow that might blow the insect away from the fan and allow for the insect to avoid injury or death. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 18, 1880
Creator:
Taylor, Morse K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient improved nut-lock that "securely lock[s] a nut against accidental rotation, and adapted to be readily applied to single nuts having either right or left hand threads" (lines 12-15). The invention also is easily screwed and unscrewed without being damaged.
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Comminge, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun Case.
Patent for a new and improved gun case. This design "is to provide a case for guns which shall be capable of receiving and enclosing the whole gun, or of being separated into two parts, one part adapted to receive the barrel or barrels, and the other the breech, when the barrels are separated from the breech. . . . so far . . . the parts of the case have always been inseparably connected, or even if they could be taken apart they could not be joined together to make one complete case" (lines 9-26).
Date:
December 18, 1883
Creator:
Bronson, Edgar B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floor-Clamp.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive floor-clamp that aids in laying floors so that the floor is laid uniformly and has a good joint. This prevents the floors from warping or curving.
Date:
October 18, 1892
Creator:
Zauner, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements applicable to a gang of plows. Ability to adjust depth, security of plow arms, and can plow three rows at once.
Date:
March 18, 1879
Creator:
Gifford, George Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Handle and Spring-Catch.
Patent for improvements in detachable handles and spring-catches for valises, satchels, traveling-bags, and the like in which a handle “may be readily detached from the valise, and devices for automatically engaging and locking the handle to the valise when the handle is replaced.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
Epstein, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
BLIND-STOP
Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date:
August 18, 1903
Creator:
Koenig, Charles Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy and Process of Making Same
Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Webb, Jesse B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check - Spring.
Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pressure Valve
Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Neighbors, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
Date:
December 18, 1906
Creator:
Haye, August, of San Antonio, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blacking-Brush
Patent for a new and useful improvement in blacking brushes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
De Witt, Joseph R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Floor.
Patent for an improved fireproof floor, which provides a light, rigid fire- and sound-proof flooring that is simple in construction. In addition, the ceiling construction allow the walls of a building to be strengthened against sagging or bulging, and also provides a continuous concrete-ceiling surface, allowing plaster coating or other material to be securely held without the need of another surface to support it.
Date:
November 18, 1902
Creator:
Shields, Patrick T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for a rotary engine that uses steam as a motive agent. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Allan, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a steam vacuum pump for liquids, which when liquid comes out of one receptacle, it will automatically come out the second receptacle.
Date:
May 18, 1909
Creator:
Dobie, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracking-Machine.
Patent for a nut-cracking machine that can crack hard shelled nuts.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Elder, Benjamin W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracking-Machine.
Patent for a nut-cracking machine for cracking hard shelled nuts.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Elder, Benjamin Winchester
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History