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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a draw-head, the laterally-movable pin-retaining arms supported therein, and a pivoted wing normally held in the path of an approaching link, and arranged to distend the arms to drop the pin when acted on by the links" (lines 30-35).
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Thomason, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricant
Patent for a lubricant which consists "of a gelatinous and fibrous material" (lines 14-15), containing description of creation and uses.
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Marshall, Edward S. & Savage, Robert W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Collar.
Patent for a new and improved stock-collar. This design is "for the purpose of positively and unmistakably identifying cattle and other like stock, and to obviate the necessity of marking and branding cattle, &c., which shall be light, simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective for the purposes designed, easily attached to and removed from the necks of cattle, &c., which shall be cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, and not liable to become lost, misplaced, broken, or detached by the animal in its efforts to release itself" (lines 16-26).
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Roberts, John Harrison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel
Patent for Vehicle-Wheel. "I am enabled to produce a wheel which can be put together, taken apart, repaired, renewed or tightened, with no tools or appliances other than a wrench, and by persons wholly unskilled in the manufacture of wheels in the ordinary way." (lines 13-18)
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Horrne, Henry M. & Rutherford, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for an improved wheel for vehicles, with description of parts and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Horrne, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for steam-powered screw-press for pressing cotton.
Date:
April 6, 1884
Creator:
O'Daniel, Josiah Dial
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Stool.
Patent for an adjustable and foldable stool for but not limited to field workers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Smith, William Alexander & Smith, Robert Toumbleson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb.
Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wilson, Hence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.
Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for concepts and designs used to improve performance of Spark-Arresters used in the smoke stacks of locomotives with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History