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Car Coupling
Patent for a car coupling. This invention operates as a coupling for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Moore, Francis A. & Green, William Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plastic Fence-Post.
Patent for a plastic fence post that wire fencing or wooden rails can be attached to that has the connection areas on the post hollowed out to protect the parts from the weather.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Libhart, Hugh P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shirt-Starching Machine.
Patent for improvements in shirt-starching machines by using a combination of a shirt holding device having an oscillatory motion for one-fourth of a full revolution, and a semi-cylindrical starch-holding receptacle with longitudinal rubber bottom; when the shirt-holder is turned, shirts are crowded into the compartments, with the bosoms and wristbands hanging outside. When the door is closed, shirt-bosoms and wristbands are thoroughly starched. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1891
Creator:
Herndon, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Picker.
Patent for a fruit-picker that has a jaw or jaws that severs the stem of the fruit, a fabric tube that brings the fruit to the operator or a basket. It bruises the fruit less than other pickers do.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Thomas Page
System:
The Portal to Texas History