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Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for car-coupling. The object of this invention is to provide an improved automatic car-coupling of simple, durable, and effective construction that will permit the necessary longitudinal and lateral play of the coupling-link to correspond with inequalities of the track, facilitate the turning of curves, and enable the coupling to accommodate itself to draw-heads of unequal height.
Date: January 19, 1892
Creator: Lemon, Eli Jeremiah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Ginning Apparatus. (open access)

Cotton-Ginning Apparatus.

Patent for an improvement to cotton gins, allowing them to be constructed from a series of continuous shafts instead of pulleys, belts, and bearings. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1891
Creator: Murray, Stephen Douglas
System: The Portal to Texas History