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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that consists of a pin, a lever, a catchbar, a drawhead that sits under the catchbar and guides it, a rack slide, and a curved lifter. It improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 437,734).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Testard, Adrian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling that can be operated without going between cars. The coupling facilitates "the coupling of cars having drawheads at the same and different heights by readily guiding the link of one of them into the other" (lines 14-17).
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.
Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Anders Peder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses
Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Material for Concrete.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in boxes for washing aggregate or rough material for making concrete" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wardrobe, Bureau, and Wash Stand.
Patent for a new and improved combination chiffarobe and wash stand. This design is "constructed with a main wardrobe section provided with hinged upper doors having lower ledges or shelves, respectively, and bureau and wash-stand structures hinged at opposite sides of the wardrobe below its doors and adapted when closed to close the lower front part of the wardrobe, and said door-ledges forming top covers to the wash-stand and bureau" (lines 31-40).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Wulff, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel for Outhouses.
Patent for a new and improved barrel. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel-head having the opening, of the cover adapted to close said opening, the bolt extending through said cover and into the barrel, the clamping bar longer than the width of said opening in the barrel-head, said bar being centrally pivoted by a rivet to the lower end of said bolt, and a nut screwed upon the upper end of said bolt for clamping said cover in position" (lines 16-25).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot
Patent for a boot design that contains a counter-support of coil springs while also being inexpensive, durable, and efficient.
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Benson, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Register.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cash-register that is accurate and alerts the customer to the price. The operator must charge the correct amount for the purchase.
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Johnson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composite Lamp-Chimney.
Patent for a lamp chimney that prevents insects from falling into the chimney and keeps the flame inside the chimney.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Schwartz, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Burglin, Bernhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Lee, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that part or portion of the mechanism usually termed 'link-lifters;' and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the link can be lifted and caused to enter the draw-head of an approaching car by the operator when standing alongside the stationary car" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Small, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clinical Thermometer.
Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] car-coupling link having a slotted spring-head adapted to hold the link in a draw-head by frictional contact therewith, and arranged and adapted to permit a coupling-pin to pass through the slots in the said link and its spring-head" (lines 48-53).
Date:
February 4, 1890
Creator:
Thompson, James Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.
Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Adams, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor for Ice Machines.
Patent for a new and improved ice-machine compressor. This design consists in "an ammonia-compressor, the piston-rod having transverse opening in combination with the valve, stem having slot and shoulder, key held therein by a wedge, and the spring and washer" (lines 90-94).
Date:
October 4, 1887
Creator:
Schuehle, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Vehicles
Patent for "a brake which shall be easy in operation, cheap in construction, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Bacon, Edward Hamlin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Truck.
Patent for a new barrel truck or wheeled dolly design for moving barrels or boxes more easily, including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William W. & Newton, Jeremiah L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Gravel, &c.
Patent for washing gravel and other material for making concrete.
Date:
February 28, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Charger for Loading Revolvers.
Patent for a new and improved charger for revolvers. This design "consists of a cylindrical case of metal, pasteboard, or other suitable material, contrived with a centerpiece, by which a number of cartridges corresponding to the number of chambers in the cylinder of the fire-arm may be located in the charger suitably for being simultaneously entered at the points in the chambers of the cylinder and be discharged from the charger into the cylinder all at once to facilitate the loading of revolving fire-arms" (lines 8-17).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Munch, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History