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80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1930, Chapter 698
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to gifts and grants for financing or assisting the operation of the office of County Attorney in Brown County.
Date:
2007-04/2007-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Grader.
Patent for a machine which uses blasts of air to separate batches of commingled seeds or to sort one type of seed into groups according to size. Designed to be easily cleaned and repaired.
Date:
April 10, 1917
Creator:
Leach, Grover C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a compressor. This is an improvement upon previous refrigeration and ice making machines.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Fowler, Paul R.; Gingrich, John A.; Tongate, Willis B. & Ridge, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor
Patent for a new type of motor. The aim of this new type of motor is to use head and cold to expand and contract the bar used to apply power.
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Miller, Leonard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Tie-Press.
Patent for a cotton tie press, which allows the easy removal of the temporary ties on the cotton bales.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Howlett, Payton Leon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboiler
Patent for a wash boiler used to wash clothes with steam and water. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sand Box
Patent for a sand box. This invention "relates to sand guards for vehicle wheel hubs, and has for its principal object to provide a guard" (8-10). Illustration included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Underwood, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating System
Patent for a heating system. This invention is to distribute heat vie flues throughout multiple rooms from a common source. Illustration included.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Jones, Jefferson Davis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for "an improved frame for carrying the rolls of cloth from which a quilt is to be made in a horizontal position, so that they are adapted to be stitched together, with the batting between them, by the aid of an ordinary sewing-machine." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Howard, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for improvements in churns is to “simplify and improve the construction of the means for operating vertically-reciprocating churn-dashers and to enable the dasher to be adjusted vertically, according to the amount of lacteal fluid to be churned.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a burglar-alarms by constructing “an alarm which would adapted and arranged to sound and to be operated at and by the raising of the window or opening of the door, and simultaneous with the sounding of the alarm to produce an illumination.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Canterbury, Crawford R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Power.
Patent for a machine that "has relation to mechanical powers designed for stump-pulling, hoisting heavy weights, &c.; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 21-24).
Date:
April 29, 1884
Creator:
Gray, William Smith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump Puller.
Patent for a new and improved stump puller. This design's object "is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective stump-puller, readily portable and easily operated by one man and a horse; and to that end the novelty consists in the construction of the same" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 24, 1883
Creator:
Tucker, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History