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Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-798

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the Commissioners Court of Harris County order that the responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the Washburn Tunnel and Harris County Ferries in Commissioner Precinct 2 be transferred from the Commissioner of that precinct to the C… more
Date: March 3, 1971
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0392

Description: Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request received by the University of Houston regarding a copy of a sexual harassment investigation file.
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR 2000-0372

Description: Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request for copies of fee bills for the Central Heights Independent School District during the years 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Open Records Letter Ruling: OR2000-0361

Description: Document issued by the Open Records Division at the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an informal interpretation of Texas law related to a request for a specified internal affairs investigation report for the City of Houston.
Date: February 3, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Screen.

Description: Patent for a well-screen formed of perforated pipes for oil production to filter sand and detritus, including illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Mack, James O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine For Forming Cotton-Seed Meal Into Cakes.

Description: Patent for "an organized machine adapted to compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removing to the press which expresses the oil from the meal, and to carry said cakes from the point where they are compressed to a point or points in convenient proximity to the press or presses which express the meal" (lines 8-16).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: Price, James S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames.

Description: Patent for "mosquito-net frames which are made adjustable, so that they may be extended over the bed or folded compactly, according to the requirements of use." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 3, 1877
Creator: Volle, Johann F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydraulic Swivel.

Description: Patent for a new type of swivel. This swivel allows for adjustments without removing any parts on the outside of the swivel. The parts are also made more simplistic and of stronger material.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Layne, Mahon E. & Hall, Samuel N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Cotton-Conveyer.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in pneumatic cotton-conveyers, particularly with relation to means for putting the exhaust-pipe which leads to the elevator in communication with either of a series of intake-pipes at will and for relieving the partial vacuum caused by the operation of the exhaust-fan at will." (lines 8-14)
Date: March 3, 1903
Creator: Richmond, George Eustace
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Washer for Well Screens.

Description: Patent for improvements in a washer for well screens relating to oil wells, using a fluid conducting tube, to be let down in a well.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Mack, James O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine.

Description: Patent for a simply-constructed rotary, steam-powered engine that minimizes friction and noise, and for which wear is automatically compensated. It is "capable of running at a very low or high speed without subjecting the parts to any unusual strains or wear" (lines 16-18). One lever controls the steam supply and can reverse the movement of the engine cutting off.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Wilson, Alonzo T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton or Hay Press.

Description: Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination, with the follower-screw, the worm and worm-shaft, the combined worm-gear and nut, and the base-plate having a peripheral ledge . . . of the plate having bearings for said worm shaft and an annular portion which encircles said base-plate, and the bolts which pass through both such annular portion and base-plate for securing them together and to the base-timbers of the press" (lines 73-82).
Date: May 3, 1887
Creator: McGowen, Allexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garbage-Receptacle

Description: Patent for garbage receptacle that exhibits a hinged lid (attached to pail), enabling one to securely open and close the receptacle at will.
Date: May 3, 1913
Creator: Lubbock, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw Filer and Gummer

Description: Patent for adding an attachment to aid in "sharpening and gumming the teeth of circular saws particularly such saws as are used in cotton gins" (lines 13-15). The attachment works with a device for which the inventor previously received a patent. (Patent No. 1,180,270)
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: McMicken, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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