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CAR-COUPLING
Patent for a Car-Coupling. "This invention relates to car-couplings of the Janney type..." (lines 9-10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances.
Patent for "a process for hardening or partly solidifying to any required degree substances such as liquid or viscid bitumens, tars, or asphaltums, either natural or artificial" (lines 8-12). It hardens bitumens without evaporating oils and leaves them solid when cooled.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Dumble, Edwin Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firing Mechanism for Guns.
Patent for a firing mechanism for double barrel shotguns, which allows the barrels to be shot in any order by pulling the trigger twice in succession.
Date:
August 11, 1908
Creator:
Blocker, John Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cuff Button and Holder.
Patent for a new and improved cuff button and holder. This design consists in "[a] cuff button and holder having in combination a shank-plate, two buttons, one attached at each end of the shank-plate, and a clamp-bar, one end of which is for attachment to the shirt-sleeve, and the other end having a device to couple with said shank-plate" (lines 1-6).
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Stuart, John A. & Woodmansee, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that can be easily disassembled and cleaned easily. The churn is a circular chamber with a tube in its center. The tube has a fan around it at the top of the chamber, and the air goes through the fan, is sucked into the tube, and is released at the bottom of the chamber in order to agitate the cream.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Walker, Ben, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History