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San Antonio Monthly Reports
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San Antonio Board of Adjustment Monthly Report
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San Antonio Monthly Permit Report
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San Antonio Board of Review for Historic Districts and Landmarks Monthly Report
11
House Bills
7
San Antonio Monthly Report of Demolitions
6
79th Legislature of Texas
5
San Antonio Monthly Minimum Housing Report
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Senate Bills
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86th Legislature of Texas
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Machine for making mattresses.
Patent for a machine for making mattresses with compressed lint-cotton inserted into a tick.
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
Morgan, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and useful wheel, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Millen, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Trimming Machine
Patent for a lawn-trimming machine designed to trim the edges of lawns or other grass plots. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Cady, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock for Toy Banks
Patent for a lock for toy banks. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Hansen, Christian
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Machine.
Patent for improved mechanism of well-boring machine in which it “composed of as few parts as possible, which will effectively grip and rotate a drill-rod or pipe containing coupling and reducing - nipples, or composed of length or sections of varying diameters without impeding the end movement or deranging the central position of said drill-rod or pipe, and without delaying the progress of the machine, to adjust or change any part or parts thereof, also to improve the means for gripping the drill-rod or pipe and to eliminate the tendency to split or longitudinally furrow the latter, which would render the same liable to open and twist off when subject to high pressure during the progress of boring.” (Lines 20-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 17, 1902
Creator:
Woods, Frank J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
Date:
June 17, 1879
Creator:
Terrell, Will
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plate for Secondary Batteries.
Patent filed by Joseph O. Luthy, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing in the city of San Antonio, concerning new and useful improvements in placates for secondary batteries. Figures page 1. Description of patent begins page 2.
Date:
June 15, 1915
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tortilla-Making Machine.
Patent for a machine for making tortillas "easily, conveniently and rapidly" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Gutiérrez, Refugio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock for railroad tracks, which will prevent rail bolts from unscrewing.
Date:
June 8, 1909
Creator:
Mills, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Truing and Dressing Commutators.
Patent for a tool "for truing and dressing the commutators of dynamo motors... especially designed for truing and dressing the commutators of motors employed for propelling cars" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 25, 1907
Creator:
Frick, Claus Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace - Fastener
Patent for improved spring activated trace fastener.
Date:
June 26, 1900
Creator:
Woods, Washington Green Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Staple-Setter.
Patent for a staple-setter that can be more efficiently utilized for paper board boxes, specifically boxes that are used by florists.
Date:
June 15, 1920
Creator:
Suchy, Frank C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Gap Muffler.
Patent for a spark gap muffler that muffles the sound of a spark jumping a gap between wires in wireless telephone and telegraph systems.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester
Patent for a spark arrester. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Bender, Rudolf A. & Schomburg, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Transmitter
Patent for a telephone transmitter. Illustration included.
Date:
June 6, 1905
Creator:
Fletcher, Milton J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music Leaf Turner
Patent for a music leaf turner.
Date:
June 16, 1903
Creator:
Hutchinson, Searcy T. & McNeir, Forest W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1905
Creator:
Mills, Thomas M. & McKinnon, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Bicycle
Patent for "a frame in which the motor shall be firmly supported without undue strain on any part of the machine and in which the weight of the motor shall be as low as may be and to connect the motor to the driving-axle in such way that a pedal shall also be utilized for driving the machine with little interference from the motor and with a proper balance of friction and to improve certain details and combinations of the driving-gear" (lines 10-20).
Date:
June 4, 1901
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tag-Threading Machine
Patent for a machine that threads tags or cards through ribbon, twine, string, etc.
Date:
June 15, 1920
Creator:
Suchy, Frank C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[a] lock . . . for a nut having a non-circular recess in its rear face, consisting of a washer having a non-circular opening whereby it may be keyed upon a bolt and fitted to enter the non-circular recess of a nut, and a securing-plate having an opening fitted to receive the locking-washer" (lines 81-87).
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
Unger, Louis
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
Spring-Wheel.
Patent for an improved spring wheel "which may replace the inelastic wheels commonly used in connection with automobiles, and which are usually made of wood" (lines 10-13) including illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1915
Creator:
Gebhardt, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasket or Washer
Patent for "a gasket or washer adapted to be used upon garden hose, steam pipes, air brake hose, automobile hose, fire hose" (lines 9-11).
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Toepperwein, Ferdinand L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing-Machine
Patent for improvements to hoeing machines "as will cause the hoes to cultivate around the particular plant pointed out without it being necessary for the indicator to remain at rest while each plant is being hoed; second, to provide a pair of oscillating disks that cultivate before and behind the plant as they oscillate across the row" (lines 15-21).
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History