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Car-Door Cleat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car door cleats or guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Miller, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle Box.
Patent for a new and improved car-axle box. This design "consists in an improved cap for the box, a dust guard or plate, and packing for the same, the object being to render the axle-box dust and oil tight" (lines 14-17).
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Scott, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roaster.
Patent for a new and improved coffee roaster. This design "provides a means whereby [one] can utilize the heretofore wasted heat ascending the stove-pipe to roast coffee and other similar articles, thereby securing for other purposes the large amount of space over or near the fire heretofore occupied by the coffee-roaster; and the invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 13-21).
Date:
November 30, 1880
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Line-Shift.
Patent for line shifter attachment for typewriter which makes it possible for the typewriter to print characters above or below the standard line of print. This attachment makes the typewriter useful for taking stenographic notes.
Date:
May 30, 1916
Creator:
Byrne, Henry E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for wire stretcher.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Clark, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History