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Texas Register, Volume 31, Number 18, Pages 3649-3750, May 5, 2006
A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date:
May 5, 2006
Creator:
Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 25, Number 18, Pages 3863-4246, May 5, 2000
A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date:
May 5, 2000
Creator:
Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 90, Chapter 8
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to adoption of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
Date:
May 5, 2009
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 997, Chapter 10
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the administration of and exemptions from the gas production tax.
Date:
May 5, 2009
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 346, Chapter 9
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to information submitted to and maintained in the immunization registry after an individual becomes an adult.
Date:
May 5, 2009
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2457, Chapter 6
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the duty of the General Land Office to clean, maintain, and clear debris from a public beach affected by a declared disaster.
Date:
May 5, 2009
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
81st Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2594, Chapter 7
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the hours for the wholesale delivery or sale of alcoholic beverages.
Date:
May 5, 2009
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 9
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler on its 50th anniversary.
Date:
May 5, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for improvements in reaping and mowing machines.
Date:
May 5, 1868
Creator:
Ramsey, Jo.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of ditching-machines by way of new construction techniques.
Date:
May 5, 1876
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mechanical Movements.
Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Franklin, Robert Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Planters.
Patent for "corn-planters in which the corn is planted in hills or rows; and the particular features of [the] invention consist in the combination, with a pivoted rising and descending charger or cup, of a sleeve-seat for said charger, a charger-carrying stem, and the seed-hopper, whereby the charger is held and carried in position upon a seat to fill, to rise from said seat, and to dump upon its pivot, and to be again brought into and maintained in a vertical position upon said seat while descending through the corn, whereby the charger is held and moved vertically through the grain from the bottom of the hopper to receive and discharge the filled charge above the corn in the hopper." (Lines 7-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Williams, Blasius & Cohn, Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Filling Bottles.
Patent for an "apparatus for filling bottles with crude petroleum, turpentine, and other liquids; and its object is to provide an improved construction which shall possess superior advantages with respect to efficiency in operation" (lines 14-19).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
McKay, Felix Early
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot or Shoe Brace.
Patent for a new and improved brace for shoes and boots. This design "relates to a brace adapted to be applied to boots and shoes, and is designed as a brace for the counter, heel, and instep; and it has for its object to provide a brace . . . which shall be simple in its construction, one that may be readily and easily applied, and manufactured and supplied at a slight cost" (lines 9-16).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Awalt, Jessee C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable frame having a fly-wheel mounted in bearings thereof, and a wrist-pin on said fly-wheel, of the lever pivoted to the frame at one end" (lines 95-98). Further, it consists in "carrying a pivoted dasher at its other end, said lever having a slot or opening to receive the wrist-pin, a crank-arm, a treadle pivoted to the frame at one end, and carrying a handle at its other end, and a rod connecting the treadle and crank-arm" (lines 1-6).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Rogers, William Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher.
Patent for a new and improved churn dasher. This design, "[a]s an article of manufacture, [consists in] the conical or concavo-convex churn dasher having a circular rim, the air cups or cells, the arms, and the raised nave or center portion, all of concavo-convex shape in their transverse sections" (lines 28-33).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Hale, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to a car-coupling constructed with draw-heads having stationary hooks and recesses in their sides, and provided with pivoted hooks held in place by springs, and provided with a trip plate and lever, and with chains and a lever, whereby the cars will couple themselves when run together, can be readily uncoupled, will uncouple themselves when thrown from the track, and can be prevented from coupling when run together" (lines 23-32).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balance-Staff for Watches.
Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Cooper, Jonathan H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machinery For Pressing Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machinery for facilitating the pressing of cotton; and it relates particularly to mechanism in which cylinders and pistons are used, under the influence of fluid or liquid, such as steam, air, water, or gas under pressure to operate the follower-block of a bailing-press. (Lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Boats.
Patent for improvements in propellers for boats by “having a pair of hinged propeller-blades adapted to swing toward and away from each other, combined with fixed prongs; which are engaged with the propeller blades and hold them from displacement.” (Lines 60-65) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Gillespie, Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Proportioning Machine.
Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Collins, Alonzo G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Recorder.
Patent for an improvement in speed-recorders or device meant especially for street-cars, meant to protect the streets from reckless driving. The machine punches tape, recording the time the trolly takes to travel each block and how long the trolly takes at each stop.
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Spence, James, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strainer for Coffee-Pots.
Patent for a strainer "by which the steam from the fluid coffee which has passed through the percolating-cloth to the base of the coffee-pot can rise above the strainer, there condense, and then return again through the strainer, thus causing a thorough extraction of the strength of the coffee" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Massey, Andrew J. & Stallings, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History