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Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars (open access)

Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars

Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).
Date: January 27, 1891
Creator: Inglis, Thomas & Schiermann, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wedge-Buckle. (open access)

Wedge-Buckle.

Patent for improvements in wedge-buckles by using a “combination of a stiff plate having wedge-shaped side jaws, of the strap having an inwardly-curved spring portion terminating in projections and flanges which engage the jaws, and adapted to be straightened outwardly in clamping a belt of band between the plate and strap” to (Lines 18-24, p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: White, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Farm-Fences.

Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Rush, Alonzo & Yarbrough, Fisher
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harness. (open access)

Improvement in Harness.

Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Ellis, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge. (open access)

Gate-Hinge.

Patent for a "gravity-hinge for causing a gate to automatically close, and which is susceptible of such adjustment that if the gate-post and the latch-post, either or both, become disarranged as regards their perpendicular position, or if they are not exactly coincident with relation to each other, the gate can be centered relatively to the latch-post, or rather the hinged end of the gate can be set precisely perpendicular or be shifted laterally to any required angle of inclination for the purpose of causing the gate to properly close and engage the latch on the latch-post." (Lines 11-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1897
Creator: Berry, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue Beading Tool (open access)

Flue Beading Tool

Patent for a flue beading tool. Illustration included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Faessler, John W. & Rall, Frederick A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue Expander (open access)

Flue Expander

Patent for a flue expander. Illustration included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Faessler, John W. & Rall, Frederick A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker. (open access)

Nutcracker.

Patent for a nutcracker with an adjustable jaw and a smaller number of parts.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History