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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Smart, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved clevis that can be easily manufactured and employed to a draft-beam. It can be used without a lapring in order to connect to a singletree. The singletree can have its "staple or eye...disposed in a plane with the said singletree" (lines 16-17).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Word, Aaron Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lefléve, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slat-and-Wire Fence-Machine.
Patent for a simple and compact wire-fence machine that can be hand operated and aids in the construction of a wire fence. The machine stretches and maintains tension while twisting and securing the wire to a post. The machine also twists wires together.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Haley, Anslem J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivator.
Patent for a cotton-cultivator that brings unevenly planted cotton plants to "stand" quickly, effectively, and without much effort. "Five or more stands can be obtained at one operation of the machine" (lines 23-25).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Nehrmeyer, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive combined ice cream freezer and milk shaker that makes different flavors of ice cream at the same time and can also make a milk shake or lemonade. The machine consists of five receptacles lined up on a frame, with a crank going through the middle of each. The crank mixes the contents of the receptacles.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Harton, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lee, John Chester
System:
The Portal to Texas History