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Electric Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved electric car brake. This design "consists in a combination . . . of a friction-wheel mounted on a laterally-adjustable vertical shaft, provided at its upper end with a beveled cog-wheel, engaging with a beveled cog-wheel on a horizontal shaft, journaled in the under side of the car-floor, on which horizontal shaft is loosely mounted a worm, which engages with a worm-wheel mounted on [a] shaft . . . when this worm is locked on the shaft . . . the brake-chain will be wound on the shaft of the worm-wheel, and the brakes will be applied" (lines 10-23).
Date:
September 26, 1882
Creator:
Conover, Philip Vorus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer.
Patent for an improved double tree adapted to be used without single-trees designed to equalize the draft in case on horse gets ahead of the other in a draft team.
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C. & Robertson, Alexander W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger that allows a hole to "be bored in ordinary soil in much less time than with the ordinary auger. It readily bores in ground in which the ordinary auger will not bore - viz., dry, hard, and packed soil, gravel, and concrete beds."
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Porter, Thomas & Gillilland, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth Borer and Excavator
Patent for an earth borer and excavator machine
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Carley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History