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Manifold-Writing Tablet.
Patent for writing platform which allows for the creation of carbon copies.
Date:
April 1, 1879
Creator:
Morris, Robert, C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Lister
Patent for improved version of sulky-lister, with more effective spring between planter and lister-plow. Improvements include ability for covering disks to move downward and function at required drill depth.
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
Engelmann, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracker.
Patent for improvements in nut-cracker by using “a pair of bent handle-limbs pivoted together near the bends of the limbs, a hammer-block rigidly secured on the opposite end of each handle-limb; each hammer-block having a cavity, these cavities being formed in opposed ends of the hammer-blocks; a handhold in each handle-limb, and a guide-piece having parallel members affixed by their ends on one of the handle-limbs, and loosely embracing the other handle-limbs.” (P. 2, lines 42-51.) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
Dickey, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing
Patent for gearing for a flying machine. This gearing will allow for two independent drive shafts to work with tow independent engines to allow both engines to connect to either or both draft shafts.
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
Herrmann, Ernst W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Heater For Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for a fuel heating system designed to be incorporated into combustion engines.
Date:
April 1, 1919
Creator:
Vaughan, E. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that part or portion of the mechanism usually termed 'link-lifters;' and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the link can be lifted and caused to enter the draw-head of an approaching car by the operator when standing alongside the stationary car" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Small, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History