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Match-Receptacle.
Patent for match-receptacle that holds a number of matches and the operator can withdraw one match at a time. The match must be ignited before its removal.
Date:
December 18, 1894
Creator:
Halsey, Fred Deo
System:
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Motor.
Patent for "a motor of cheap and simple construction that may be stopped and started readily, that is automatically governed, that may be operated continuously or without losing time for rewinding or hoisting the weight, and the power of which may be doubled or decreased one-half, as desired, and in accordance with the mechanism to be operated" (lines 10-17).
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Wheat, Edmond C.
System:
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Electric Car-Brake.
Patent for improvements in electrically controlled car-brakes with the various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes, signaling from car to car or train to car, lighting trains, and other purposes to which it may be adapted, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
System:
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Electric Car-Coupling.
Patent for invention that applies the use of electricity to various purposes of coupling and uncoupling, putting on and taking off brakes; signaling from car to car, train to car, or vice versa; lighting trains; and other purposes to which it can be adapted, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas; Miller, James K. Polk & Kirby, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivating-Plow.
Patent for "an improved cultivating-plow adapted for cultivating a number of rows of growing plants at a single operation" with improvements in connecting plow-beams to the axle, to devices for raising the plows from the ground, and in operating the cultivator.
Date:
November 27, 1900
Creator:
Wells, Charles
System:
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Cotton compressor
Patent for cotton compressor using platens, bearings, pulleys, levels, rods and shafts.
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
System:
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Device for Measuring Logs.
Patent for device for measuring logs consisting "of a pair of calipers, a measuring-segment, an arm, a plate, and a disk" (lines 13-14) in order to measure "the number of lumber feet in a log" lines 16-17), including illustrations.
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Cowart, Laurance P.
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements a cotton chopper that "consists of a two-wheeled carriage having a hoe situated to thin the cotton and is operated by bevel gear-wheels, a ratchet-wheel, and a spring" (lines 12-15).
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Levings, Enoc
System:
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Broom.
Patent for a broom designed to allow the straw to be easily changed as often as needed and to hold the straw firmly in place even when considerable pressure is used, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 11, 1922
Creator:
Boyett, Oren K.
System:
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Combined Level, Grade, Distance, and Elevation Finder.
Patent for a tool that acts as a combined plumb and spirit level.
Date:
December 19, 1905
Creator:
Barclay, Charles B.
System:
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Bed Stay.
Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a bed-stay, of wires connected to the corners of the bed-stead, blocks on the wires, loops connected to the blocks, a lever hung to the loop, and a latch device locking the free end of the lever to the loop" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Bethea, Cade
System:
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Bed Stay.
Patent for a new and improved bed stay. This design "consist[s] of wires doubled at their center parts and twisted . . . to form loops . . . and diverged from said twisted parts and attached to the corner portions of the bedstead, and a tension and locking device consisting of a straining-lever fulcrumed to one of the loops and adapted to lock thereon and engaging the other loop" (lines 90-97).
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Bethea, Cade
System:
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Car Steps
Patent for rail car steps. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas
System:
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Axle-Skein
Patent for an axle skein that holds the skein on the axle.
Date:
December 20, 1910
Creator:
Bevil, Andrew H. & Bevil, Charles W.
System:
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