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Car Axle Box.
Patent for a new and improved car-axle box. This design consists "[i]n an axle-box, the combination, with the box having the wedge-shaped projections and slots, of the cover having pins and wedge-shaped recesses formed between said pins and the top of the lid, whereby the gravity of the cover will wedge it to the box when the pins are without a bearing" (lines 52-58).
Date:
June 9, 1885
Creator:
Scott, James O.
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] hand-lever and two chains as used in combination with the spring-latch catches. . . . [It further consists in a] brake-lever attached to main lever, a spring and spiral to hold said main lever in place, and a chain to main lever attached to the spring latch-catches aforesaid of each draw-head" (lines 53-59).
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Jernagan, Alexander Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake Mechanism For Hand Cars
Patent for a brake mechanism for rail hand cars.Illustration included.
Date:
August 28, 1906
Creator:
Allison, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Chauncey D. Leake to Jimmy Phillips, January 11, 1951]
Letter from Chauncey D. Leake to Jimmy Phillips invites Senator Jimmy Phillips and other Senate members to visit the Medical Branch during the legislative session. The visit aims to foster a cordial relationship and demonstrate their contributions to addressing medical emergencies. He suggests arranging the trip in late February or March and highlights the reactivation of the 127th General Hospital and their post-graduate programs.
Date:
January 11, 1951
Creator:
Leake, Chauncey D.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines
Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Valve-Gear.
Patent for improvement to the locomotive valve-gear by utilizing a centrally-pivoted lever.
Date:
January 11, 1887
Creator:
Lewis, Wallace James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Brake.
Patent for automatic wagon brake which removes the strain on draft animals when the vehicle is descending down an incline.
Date:
March 3, 1914
Creator:
Matthews, Dudley A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutting machine adapted for cutting corn and cotton stalks after the stalks have been stripped
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Pair, Robert, B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Picker
Patent for an improvement to cotton ball harvesters.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Hewitt, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Threshing Machine.
Patent for a cotton boll breaking mechanism and a means for breaking cotton bolls which are not opened sufficiently for the cotton to be picked.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Cass, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars
Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).
Date:
January 27, 1891
Creator:
Inglis, Thomas & Schiermann, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car
Patent for a dumping car to be used on railways for the purposes of dumping gravel and soil and other such materials.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Womelsdorff, Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock Attachment
Patent for an improved clock attachment to operate "a series of alarms or signals arranged in different rooms of a building or in other separated stations for simultaneously sounding the alarms or for operating the signals at predetermined times." (lines 11-17) including illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1915
Creator:
Moore, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airship that is equipped with gas bags to control the ascent and descent of the airship and make it float in case of landing in the water.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Bradshaw, John F. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Brick.
Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anal Speculum.
Patent for a new and improved anal speculum. This design is "to so construct the several parts that there will be no rough or raised edges to interfere with its insertion in the anal passage; secondly, to so construct [the] improved speculum that it may be readily used as a bi-valve or dilator; thirdly, to form a locking-joint on the meeting edges of the shells forming the speculum, whereby the sections are prevented from overlapping each other to avoid pinching or injury to the walls of the anal passage while the instrument is being inserted; fourthly, to provide a plug for [the] improved speculum" (lines 17-29).
Date:
March 25, 1890
Creator:
Shuford, Quincy Adams
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Vegetable Slicer and Grater.
Patent for a combined vegetable slicer and grater that consists of a main frame with vertical arms and bearings, a screw that attaches the arms to the frame, a shaft journaled with an annular flange into the bearings, a cylinder made of sheet metal that serves as knives, and spring tongues that regulate the thickness of the cut vegetables.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Harpst, Edgar S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Filling Bottles.
Patent for an "apparatus for filling bottles with crude petroleum, turpentine, and other liquids; and its object is to provide an improved construction which shall possess superior advantages with respect to efficiency in operation" (lines 14-19).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
McKay, Felix Early
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History