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Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks (open access)

Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks

Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: De Long, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Running Gear. (open access)

Running Gear.

Patent for a new and improved running gear. This design consists "[i]n an adjustable axle, the combination of the squarely grooved or axle-tree, having [a] central square block, the spindles having inner square portions, having horizontal slots and vertical slots, vertical nutted bolts and horizontal nutted bolts, [and] having hooks adapted to have the draft-chains attached to them" (lines 74-81).
Date: January 9, 1883
Creator: Brosius, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Signal Device (open access)

Telephone Signal Device

Patent for telephone signal device.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Boyd, Ura M.
System: The Portal to Texas History