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Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher. (open access)

Drop-Pilot or Cow-Catcher.

Patent for an improvement in drop-pilots or cow-catchers for street or steam-railways to allow the cow-catcher to stay higher above the track and be dropped in an emergency to catch large objects and prevent them from being trapped under the wheels. The improvement also contains a device for raising and lowering the cow-catcher, a mechanism for operating the brakes and whistle interdependently, and a single lever for the operator to use to control the various mechanisms.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Maxfield, Nelson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner (open access)

Oil-Burner

Patent for an oil burner for burning crude petroleum and hydrocarbon oils. Illustrations included.
Date: July 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H. & Mills, John H. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting-Machine (open access)

Casting-Machine

Patent for a casting machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Mills, Virgil H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame (open access)

Bicycle-Frame

Patent for a bicycle frame that can be used on bicycles in general, but is particularly suited for spring frame bicycles including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1900
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator and Carrier. (open access)

Water Elevator and Carrier.

Patent for a water elevator and carrier that is designed to quickly and efficiently transport water from a well, spring, or cistern to the operator. A bucket can be quickly transported to the well, spring, or cistern and be filled also.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Wilkerson, Thomas D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Trimming Hooves of Animals. (open access)

Apparatus for Trimming Hooves of Animals.

Patent for a new and improved hoof trimmer. This design "consists in an upright standard or support having a concaved supporting-recess adapted to receive the animal's hoof, with parallel guide-ways arranged in rear thereof, a trimming implement moving in said guides, and so constructed as to operate upon the hoof without injury to the frog, and means for reciprocating the trimming device from either side of the animal" (lines 16-25).
Date: December 11, 1883
Creator: Mullins, Joshua C.
System: The Portal to Texas History