84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1139, Chapter 1182 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1139, Chapter 1182

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the operation and administration of and practice in courts in the judicial branch of state government, the composition of certain juvenile boards, and the increase of certain filing fees.
Date: June 19, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for a new and improved design concerning automatic car couplings that is novel in the some of its parts.
Date: June 17, 1890
Creator: Bullock, Henry Purnell
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemise (open access)

Chemise

Patent for improvements in chemises which would relieve wearers “the annoyance of having the garment gather about the limbs while walking which often produces great embarrassment in public places.” (Lines 42-45) Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Burt, Emma Ruby
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Coop (open access)

Chicken-Coop

Patent for improved chicken coop with simplified construction and modified features.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Harp, Charles A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Controlling Mechanism for Windmills. (open access)

Controlling Mechanism for Windmills.

Patent for the operation of a windmill pump that may be automatically controlled so that a constant supply of water will be maintained in the storage tank.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Bradford, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for "a system of producing heat for kilns, furnaces for burning lime, furnaces for boilers, and similar purposes, and the object is to provide apparatus for consuming all the fuel fed to the furnaces and for pre-heating the air which is fed to the furnaces and for excluding all air which has not been preheated" (lines 8 - 15).
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for improving the way that hay bales are tied and bound. This bale tie is an addition to a previous patent (number 152,138).
Date: June 16, 1874
Creator: Mangham, Josiah T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nesting and Brooding Box (open access)

Nesting and Brooding Box

Patent for a nesting and brooding box made to keep poultry safe from other animals and to be easily transported. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Bradford, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Central Texas, June 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Central Texas, June 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Central Texas area.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder. (open access)

Rein-Holder.

Patent for rein supports to be attached to the front of a buggy, with an adjustable height and being collapsible for storage.
Date: June 11, 1901
Creator: Hill, William E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling. (open access)

Thill-Coupling.

Patent for an improved thill coupling, one meant to "prevent the annoyance of nuts coming off, allowing the thill to come out of place" (lines 55-57). "It is also for the purpose of facilitating the changing of a pair of shafts for a tongue or a tongue for shafts" (lines 59-61).
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Kitching, David C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tightener. (open access)

Tire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved tire-tightener. This design "has for its object to improve the means for lifting the felly so as to permit the insertion of a washer between the felly and the spoke, so as to take up any slack or looseness that may have occurred, and thus tighten the tire on the felly" (lines 15-20). It consists, "with a block adapted to be clamped to a spoke and an adjusting-screw, of a jaw operated by said screw and having its upper portion extended or curved to one side and then bifurcated to form two arms, each of which is provided with a fork adapted to lie against the under face" (lines 39-46).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Cayce, Robert Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History