80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 46 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 46

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives requesting Congress to authorize the Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to convey the Thomas T. Connally Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marlin, Texas, to the State of Texas.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 976, Chapter 454 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 976, Chapter 454

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the dissolution of the Falls County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
Date: June 9, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses. (open access)

Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable stop-device or dog used in baling presses with a pressure-chamber in a plunger or traverser reciprocates. The invention operates automatically and retaines the material being pressed inside the pressure-chamber. The dog pivots on the side of the pressure-chamber and is enabled to move freely.
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines (open access)

Embroidering Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Patent for embroidering arm attachment to be mounted on the needle-bar of a sewing machine with the embossing material passed through the needle eye so that it does not need to go through the presser-foot.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: Rodman, Rollin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Seed-Cotton-Handling Apparatus. (open access)

Governor for Seed-Cotton-Handling Apparatus.

Patent for simple, efficient, and reliable "a governor for regulating the quantity of seed cotton which is delivered to one or more feeders or gins by a seed-cotton handling apparatus" (lines 13-16). The operator sets the amount of cotton being sent through the gin. The invention has a receiver of a cotton handling mechanism, another mechanism that cuts off the supply of cotton after a desired amount has passed, and the invention can easily be started again after the gin is emptied.
Date: June 19, 1894
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Molds. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Molds.

Patent for improvement in brick-molds, with description and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1875
Creator: Singer, Edgar C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for a nut-lock "to be used in connection with a vertical bolt" connecting the axles and wheels of a vehicle or a railroad car with the other parts of the vehicle or railroad car (lines 8-12). It also has "many other purposes" that are not detailed (line 13).
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Bolen, Brantle W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Bar and Regulating Lever (open access)

Plow Bar and Regulating Lever

Patent for a plow bar and regulating lever. This invention is to improve regulating depth of plow.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Horton, James L. & Bennett, Dosier A.
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
Spring-Gun (open access)

Spring-Gun

Patent for "a cheap and simple device of this nature wherein the projectile will be held in such manner as not to interfere with sighting the catapult and wherein derived will be held in place in such manner as will prevent their accidental displacement and will yet permit of ready removal when desired" (lines 9-17).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Wilkins, Willie A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System. (open access)

Telephone System.

Patent for a new telephone system to split party lines connected to a main line to keep private or personal discussions between some of the parties, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Tucker, Albert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Carrier. (open access)

Trace-Carrier.

Patent for improvements in trace-carriers in which it would “provide each with a buckle or similar means that can be attached to the back-band of a harness for horses. The purpose is to provide means to a trace-chain which may be readily inserted in the carrier to prevent from removal, either accidentally or otherwise, so long as the carrier remains in position for service.” (Lines 12-20) Illustration is included.
Date: June 23, 1891
Creator: Barton, Samuel Jones
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History