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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "to provide a novel car-coupling pin and means for operating the same to automatically couple cars through the medium of ordinary links without the use of triggers located within the draw-head . . . The invention consists, essentially, in a vertically-movable coupling-pin adapted to rotate axially in the pin-hole of the draw-head, and having a wing or lug for supporting it in its elevated position, combined with a yielding draw-head having a vertical slot to receive the wing or lug and a shoulder to support the same" (lines 8-22).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Power, Kelsey L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with the coupling-head provided with a central tongue and a socket on each side of the tongue, and the forwardly-projecting spring-actuated hooks pivoted to the said head, with their rear ends abutting against the bottoms of the sockets and provided with beveled front edges of the coupling-socket provided with catches for the said hooks to engage with automatically, and the vertical spindle journaled in the central tongue and provided with flexible connections wound upon it" (lines 86-97).
Date:
November 19, 1889
Creator:
Jones, Ithamer M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a recess having an enlargement at its central portion, a series of vertical jaws on each side of said enlarged portion of the recess pivotally mounted at their lower end in the draw-head, springs connecting each jaw with its corresponding jaw in the opposite series, and means for opening the jaws" (lines 13-20).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Hooks, Bentley Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide a device for automatically coupling the cars to which it is attached and which can be uncoupled without requiring the brake[person] to go in between the cars, and when uncoupled the coupling will stand uncoupled till thrown back in gear" (lines 13-19). It consists in "the combination of two similar draw-heads, each provided with buffers and a longitudinal slot therein, and a buffer-bridge and two rounded beveled and projecting loops, and a connecting-pin with rounded or ball head . . . and a gravity key" (lines 79-87).
Date:
November 18, 1890
Creator:
Seley, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Clark, Fred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter Attachment.
Patent for a carbureter attachment.
Date:
March 19, 1918
Creator:
McDonald, James A. & Harris, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Rotary Weighing-scale.
Patent for an automatically rotating scale for weighing material such as cotton seeds.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Henderson, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improving the baling press in which a rectangular bale of hay is formed. Compared to the traditional press the lever movement is circular and continuous.
Date:
January 2, 1906
Creator:
White, Edgar Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Press Mat.
Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "consists in a mat for oil-presses having its leaves composed of paper-pulp molded by dies or molds into the requisite shape to present a hard and inelastic body to the meal to be pressed, said leaves of molded paper-pulp being provided with a leather backing" (lines 18-24).
Date:
April 8, 1884
Creator:
Osborn, Adelbert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Mechanism for Elevators, &c.
Patent for "means for automatically indicating the amount of weight placed" (lines 10-11) within an elevator cage or platform with illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Sanger, Isaac S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bin.
Patent for a new and improved bin. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a casing having bearing blocks or shoulders, a tilting bin located in said casing and provided with a sloping top, and an automatic cover placed loosely in the casing above the shoulders and provided on the under side, near its front edge, with a cleat fitting within the upper part of the bin, whereby said cover is adapted to close the upright bin and limit its forward movement when opened" (lines 7-16).
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Hunter, Edward T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Dropper
Patent for corn or cotton dropper in which improvements are made on general efficiency, "simplicity, expensiveness, [and] durability" (lines 12-13).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Brown, William Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton pressing and baling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1899
Creator:
White, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling-press used for baling cotton "in which the cotton-bat is wound into a cylindrical form without the use of a metal or similar core" (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Killingsworth, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for an operating mechanism relating to baling-presses, with illustrations.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Lane, Jefferson D. & James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for the usefulness of baling press.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Woodward, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Hamilton E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History