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Combination-Wrench.
Patent for a combination wrench that combines a sliding-jaw wrench with a tallow box, hammer, nail claw, horseshoe-pick, plow-paddle, and screwdriver.
Date:
December 1, 1885
Creator:
McKenzie, Winfield S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoke and Cinder Conductor.
Patent for a new and improved smoke and cinder conductor. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient conducting mechanism to be attached to the cars, and provided with an improved coupling device at its ends, by which a coupling can be automatically effected with the conducting mechanism of an adjoining car" (lines 11-17).
Date:
May 1, 1883
Creator:
Brown, William A. & Smith, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pedal Attachment for Velocipedes.
Patent for a new and useful safety attachment “for the pedals of bicycles, tricycles, and other wheeled vehicles operated by the feet through the medium of pedals.” (Lines 9-11) This attachment will form a long bearing for the foot of the rider, thus avoiding dead-centers in the revolutions of the cranks, and to provide means for preventing any slipping of the pedals.” (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Wheeler, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History