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Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter. Illustration included.
Date: September 13, 1904
Creator: Martin, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head having a longitudinal slot extending in the upper face into a groove, and formed with notches or recesses in the upper face at the side of the slot, and having a beveled upper corner and a flat face and a downwardly-extending portion at the under side, an anchor-bar pivoted at its inner end in the inner end of the slot, and having an anchor or arrow-head at its outer end formed with rearwardly-hooked flukes or barbs, and a link pivoted with its eyed rear ends upon a transverse bolt in the anchor-bar" (lines 20-32).
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Bywaters, Joseph K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "[i]n a car-coupler, the coupler having at its forward end a loop or link, hook, and connected rigidly with the ball or any suitable device moving in a passage" (lines 78-81).
Date: January 13, 1885
Creator: Bywater, Joseph K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector. (open access)

Knee-Protector.

Patent for a knee protector that enables the wearer to fasten the device to the knee and includes a frame and knee receiving pocket.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Russel, Callie B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for the improvement of plows, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Johnson, Felix
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame. (open access)

Hame.

Patent for a new and improved hame. This design "has relation to hames, and more particularly to the means of securing the hames adjustable to each other, and for connecting the usual parts of the harness thereto; and among the objects in view are to provide an easily-manipulated serviceable hame connection that may be adjusted to fit any sized collars, and which may be constructed at a minimum cost" (lines 11-19).
Date: November 13, 1888
Creator: Anderson, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a gate that improves "the construction of sliding gates, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be positive and reliable in its operation, and which may be opened and closed a distance from it approaching it in either direction, without dismounting or leaving a vehicle" (lines 10-16). It also prevents farm animals from passing through when the gate is closed.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Smith, Stansbury J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for ratcheting wrench
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Furgerson, Jesse S.; Davis, George W. & Furgerson, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim (open access)

Demountable Rim

Patent for "a demountable vehicle rim, which may be quickly secured to or detached from the felly rim or band of a wheel" (lines 9 - 11). As well as "to provide a demountable rim having lugs adapted to fit within bayonet slots in the felly band and be secured therein against rotational movement relative to the wheel by a plurality of spring pressed wedges or keys" (lines 16 - 21).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Stroud, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History