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Driving Mechanism for Tractors (open access)

Driving Mechanism for Tractors

Patent for an invention relating to the engines of tractors that provides "improved transmission gearing for controlling the movements of the machine." (lines 17-18)
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Ingram, Joseph D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Port-Regulating Valve. (open access)

Port-Regulating Valve.

Patent for a port-regulating valve. It is meant for use in steam-engines and regulates the steam in engines that the inventor had previously patented (No. 523,360). "The invention consists of a slide-valve for covering each port leading from the steam-chest to the rock-valve, with means for operating such slide-valves from the shaft controlling the rock-valve, and a link movement for adjusting the throw of the slide-valves and which is under the control of the engineer" (lines 21-28).
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Lester, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History