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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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Nailless Horseshoes.
Patent for a detachable nailless horseshoe that consists of a shoe-plate with front and side wings, links attached to the front wings, half-bands that are attached to the side wings, and lugs.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Mayow, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screw-Jack.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and economical lifting jack "which is particularly designed for removing and replacing the brasses in the journal boxes of freight, passenger and other railway cars, and which is so constructed that it can bear against the shoulder formed by the concave part of the car wheel in proximity to the tread and thus avoid the employment of special blocking for the jack, thereby enabling it to be quickly set and operated at any place without preparation of blocking as a foundation for sustaining the jack" (lines 10-21).
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Quinn, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Splice.
Patent for an improved railway rail joints that consists of cross-ties, rails with the top flanges of the ends cut away, a joint plate, and bolts.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Quinn, William & Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signal and Crossing-Gate.
Patent for an improved railway signal meant to be used at crossings. It consists of a rotary signal post, operating mechanism, a lamp, an arm extension, the signal hanging from the arm, a bearing for the bottom of the rotary post, a box where the bearing sits, a sleeve that holds a cap plate for the box, a ladder from the post to the cap plate, and a brace.
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a back band buckle that consists of a plate with its ends turned up and two upper longitudinal slit, the lower slit having teeth, and a hook with nibs.
Date:
August 29, 1893
Creator:
Brown, John Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sand-Band for Vehicles.
Patent for an inexpensive improved sand band for vehicle hubs that can be easily installed.
Date:
December 12, 1893
Creator:
Darby, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History