Patent for a concrete railway bed which holds the rails in place securely.

Patent for a receptacle basket that attaches to the side of an automobile and closes automatically using springs and hinges.

Patent for a car wheel chill. Illustrations included.

Patent for a hole straightener for use in drilling oil wells.

Patent for an oil and water well strainer used to filter out the sand. Illustrations included.

Patent for reading glasses. Illustrations included.

Patent for a new and improved artificial-stone block. This design "consists in the particular formation of the protuberances by which interlocking joints or seams of the building-blocks are attained, the object of which is to so form the prolific protuberances of said blocks as to permit joining them in close proximity on all the sides or faces of the seam, to reduce the binding material for the same and increase the strength of the same" (lines 14-22).

Patent for a machine that filters out the pulp from fibrous plants to obtain their fiber. Illustrations included.

Patent for a cover of a cuspidor for sanitation.

Patent for a new type of swivel. This swivel allows for adjustments without removing any parts on the outside of the swivel. The parts are also made more simplistic and of stronger material.

Patent for an improved and inexpensive railroad cattle-guard that "can be readily secured to the road-bed of a railroad, as well as easily removed therefrom, as in case of needed repair, or for other purposes" (lines 19-22). The invention provides an uneven surface for the cattle to walk on.

Patent for garbage receptacle that exhibits a hinged lid (attached to pail), enabling one to securely open and close the receptacle at will.

Patent for improvements in a washer for well screens relating to oil wells, using a fluid conducting tube, to be let down in a well.

Patent for a well-screen formed of perforated pipes for oil production to filter sand and detritus, including illustrations.

Patent for a locomotive pedestal. Illustrations included.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination, with the follower-screw, the worm and worm-shaft, the combined worm-gear and nut, and the base-plate having a peripheral ledge . . . of the plate having bearings for said worm shaft and an annular portion which encircles said base-plate, and the bolts which pass through both such annular portion and base-plate for securing them together and to the base-timbers of the press" (lines 73-82).

Patent for adding an attachment to aid in "sharpening and gumming the teeth of circular saws particularly such saws as are used in cotton gins" (lines 13-15). The attachment works with a device for which the inventor previously received a patent. (Patent No. 1,180,270)

Patent for a plumb level that can have its stock changed.

Patent for "an organized machine adapted to compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removing to the press which expresses the oil from the meal, and to carry said cakes from the point where they are compressed to a point or points in convenient proximity to the press or presses which express the meal" (lines 8-16).

Patent for "an improvement in pneumatic cotton-conveyers, particularly with relation to means for putting the exhaust-pipe which leads to the elevator in communication with either of a series of intake-pipes at will and for relieving the partial vacuum caused by the operation of the exhaust-fan at will." (lines 8-14)

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request for copies of fee bills for the Central Heights Independent School District during the years 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request for a specified internal affairs investigation report for the City of Houston.

Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request received by the University of Houston regarding a copy of a sexual harassment investigation file.

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the Commissioners Court of Harris County order that the responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Washburn Tunnel and Harris County Ferries in Commissioner Precinct 2 be transferred from the Commissioner of that precinct to the Commissioner of another precinct?