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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for improving cotton bale ties with buckle-tie plate and zinc-galvanized iron wire.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Quarles, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Presses
Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Leoneard, Thomas Dunlap
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie Clamps.
Patent for an instrument that tightens the ties used for bales of cotton.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Leoneard, Thomas Dunlap
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History