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86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2329, Chapter 314
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the dissolution of the North Montague County Water Supply District.
Date:
May 31, 2019
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drive Belt
Patent for a drive belt. Used for automotive motor fans and similar light elements so light machinery will not be liable to slip upon belt wheels or become displaced.
Date:
May 14, 1918
Creator:
Kelley, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cistern-Cleaner
Patent for a device to be used for cleaning mud and sediment from cisterns while preventing contamination of the water within the cistern.
Date:
May 7, 1918
Creator:
Davis, Lewis F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper for "oscillating said [chopping] hoe as the implement is drawn through the field" (lines 11-13).
Date:
May 8, 1917
Creator:
Sims, James Gordon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Section Stalk Cutter
Patent for a multiple section stalk cutter that comprises of a three-section stalk cutter.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Evans, Lucius S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shutter-Operating Attachment For Photographic Cameras.
Patent for shuttering operating attachment for photographic cameras. Small mechanical device that is operated by a thumb-lever that causes the shutter of the photographic camera to operate.
Date:
May 2, 1916
Creator:
Atwood, Harry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poultry Feeding and Watering Device
Patent for "new and useful poultry feeding and watering device" (lines 5-7), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
May 6, 1911
Creator:
Wilson, W. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener.
Patent for a can opener, which has a movable blade to allow for easy cleaning.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Allen, Jasper McDonnel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topper.
Patent for a cotton-top trimmer that can be attached to a cultivator.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Griffith, Thomas K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CONVERTIBLE CAR.
Patent for improved convertible cars pertaining to railroad rolling-stock, that can be converted from freight-car into a box-car or cattle-car. This invention is tighter in corners when serving as a box-car, to prevent leakage of transports.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Cothern, John K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Rim.
Patent for improvement to wheel rims providing "means for introducing oil thereinto and distributing it throughout the whole periphery" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Harville, Walter S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Return-Envelop.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in return envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Carter, Jessee M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that has its frame and attachments are mounted on carrying-wheels, and the plows depend on the wheels. It is operated more easily than other cultivators.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Aubrey, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Hoisting Bales on Wagons.
Patent for a new and improved bale hoister. This design "relates to apparatus for loading and unloading wagons, and it has for its object to provide an apparatus of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, effective in its operation, strong and durable, an apparatus by the use of which a wagon may be quickly loaded and unloaded" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 12, 1885
Creator:
Lamb, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket Windlass.
Patent for a new and improved windlass mounting. This design "consists of an improved construction of and contrivance for mounting the windlass for a well-bucket; also, an improved contrivance for mounting the pulley of the windlass, whereby it is designed to provide simpler, cheaper, and easier working well-bucket windlasses than as heretofore constructed" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 20, 1884
Creator:
Palmer, William Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History