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Connector for Lamps
Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom-Rack.
Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Smith, Walter I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer.
Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1902
Creator:
St. James, Henry Livingston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Mayhew, John Daugherty
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake
Patent for a car brake for train cars. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 12, 1904
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a coupling mechanism for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
October 31, 1905
Creator:
Power, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body-Bolster
Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Wahlert, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press that has an improved plunger.
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Hightower, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Valve Cage for Air-Brake Pumps
Patent for an air valve cage for air brake pumps which reduces the wear on the air brake pump and substantially reduces the maintenance costs of the system.
Date:
February 16, 1909
Creator:
Mattingly, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake Mechanism
Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door
Patent for a rail-car door. This invention is in relation to 'flush doors'. Illustration includes.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door Fastener
Patent for a car door fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake
Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn designed for churning butter in smaller quantities and preventing foreign objects from entering. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 5, 1909
Creator:
Bland, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Mead, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable wheel-axle box that is "adapted to contain a supply of lubricating material and constructed to feed the same continuously to the axle-spindle to prevent overheating, and furthermore, to provide means for preventing ingress of dust" (lines 9-14).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Casto, Tony Lo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge.
Patent for a new and improved bridge. This design consists in "the combination, with the base, stringers, the top arched bars, and the upright tie-bars, of the intermediate stringers, arched bars, and their horizontal tie-bars, and wedge-keys . . . whereby the structure is greatly strengthened" (lines 85-91).
Date:
December 13, 1881
Creator:
Ibel, Justus H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "consists in the combination of the bevel-edged boards with the saws and brush, so as to facilitate the transfer of the cotton from the saws to the arc-shaped support consisting of the bevel-edged boards set at a short distance apart, and to thus straighten the fiber or lint. This gives the lint cotton a finer and lighter appearance, causing a ready allowance of a considerable addition to the usual price" (lines 8-17).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Van Zandt, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.
Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
Date:
September 27, 1892
Creator:
Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box.
Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
Date:
May 8, 1894
Creator:
Casto, Tony Lo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cinder and Smoke Consuming Apparatus.
Patent for "devices for conducting exhaust steam, gases and cinders to the fire place of a boiler and is primarily intended for use in locomotive boilers, and its object is to increase the efficiency of such apparatus" (lines 11-16).
Date:
February 14, 1893
Creator:
Little, Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling
Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
Date:
July 30, 1889
Creator:
Roquemore, Peter G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balance-Staff for Watches.
Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Cooper, Jonathan H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAR-BRAKE
Patent for new and useful improvements for Caboose Cars' brakes. The brakes can be applied from within the car, and no strain is applied to the car frame or body.
Date:
July 20, 1880
Creator:
Dwyer, Denis R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History