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82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1523, Chapter 274

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the offense of transporting household goods without registration; providing a penalty.

Date: June 17, 2011

Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.

Item Type: Legislative Document

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Water-Tanks.

Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.

Date: January 28, 1879

Creator: Bardon, Prosper

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail Bag or Pouch

Patent for an improvement of the device known as a mail-pouch, along with detailed illustrations.

Date: February 2, 1886

Creator: Campbell, Parker

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Locomotive-Pilot Coupling

Patent for new and useful improvements in locomotive-pilot couplings (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.

Date: February 8, 1900

Creator: Butcher, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Patent for "... improvements in indexes for books which receive the freight tariffs or schedules of railroads and the agreements between one road and others a to division of freight charges where the traffic is handled by more than one" (lines 11-16 ) including instructions and illustrations.

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Kerr, Warren Dunlop

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water-Elevator.

Patent for an improvement in water elevators to raise and lower a pair of buckets, meant to be simple, inexpensive, and more efficient than other designs. In particular, it is meant "to move the buckets in either direction without necessitating the operator's changing his position with relation to the apparatus" (lines 19-22).

Date: January 1, 1901

Creator: Griffin, Walter R.; Thomas, Joseph E. & Griffin, Samuel D.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hub

Patent for improvements for Hubs which consists the addition of a wheel with spokes that can be tighten. Included

Date: September 7, 1886

Creator: Nolen, Robert

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trace-Fastener

Patent for a trace fastener for whippletrees. This is a device that "provide[s] a simple, efficient, reliable fastener which will when in use, at all times and under all circumstances, hold the trace in connection with the end of the whiffletree [sic] and which will prevent undue wear on the cockeye or hole in the end of the trace." (Lines 9-16)

Date: April 2, 1901

Creator: Nichols, Charlie M. & Burnett, Charles M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.

Date: May 11, 1897

Creator: Murray, Stephen D.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rail Bond.

Patent for improved track circuit rail joints designed to withstand heavy usage and convey electrical currents between rails, including illustrations.

Date: August 30, 1898

Creator: Talley, William H.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Overflow Control for Separating Tanks.

Patent for improved overflow control for separating tanks, accounting for, "slime thickness, settling tanks, separating tanks, and the like," ensuring, "uniform overflow." (lines 8-10; 27), with instructions and illustrations.

Date: March 4, 1919

Creator: Allen, Charles

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Receptacle.

Patent for a "discharge spout" (line 34) that prevents accidental spills for receptacles that contain liquids, including illustrations.

Date: July 6, 1915

Creator: Goodpasture, Thomas B. & Maxwell, Thomas J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Half-Car Unloader

Patent for an improved and simplified mechanism of Half-Car Unloaders, which unloads earth materials such as coal and ore from a railroad car more easily and effectively by lifting up a train car, unloading its contents, and placing it back on the railroad track.

Date: February 9, 1915

Creator: Scardino, Mario P. & Scardino, Peter

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Buggy Bow Strings Attachment

Patent for improvements to buggy transportation carts. These improvements are primarily to prevent bending and breakage.

Date: July 12, 1905

Creator: Johnson, George A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bag-Skid.

Patent for a device that will protect cotton pick-sacks against wear and tear when being dragged on the ground.

Date: June 13, 1916

Creator: Ullmann, Fannie M.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile Wheel

Patent for an improved automotive wheel “with a demountable rim for interchanging the rim in order to quickly replace a defective tire,” (lines 16-17) It also provides a mechanism for locking the rim to keep the wheel in place.

Date: February 16, 1915

Creator: Watson, Chester A.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department