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Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.

Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Clements, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Brakes.

Patent for improved railway car-brakes, including illustrations.
Date: July 6, 1875
Creator: O'Hara, Richard C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of running up the follower, or against the small pulley for the purpose of running it down, by drawing the said level inward or outward." (Lines 15-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Knowles, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History