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Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings of that class which have a sliding spring-actuated pin-support, against which the link comes to drive the support back and permit the pin to fall and effect an automatic coupling" (lines 9-13).
Date: May 6, 1884
Creator: Mayfield, Samuel Brooks
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer (open access)

Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer

Patent for device for planting, fertilizing, and cultivating seed and grain.
Date: April 1, 1884
Creator: Pickle, William Chesley
System: The Portal to Texas History