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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car for Pneumatic Railways.
Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Rush, Cicero Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel. This invention is designed to keep dust and grit out of the axle point and nib. It has a wooden core sheathed in metal. Illustration included.
Date:
April 19, 1904
Creator:
Polk, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manure-Spreader
Patent for a manure spreader that can be connected to the back wheels of a farm wagon. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Echols, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut-lock that is meant to be screwed onto a bolt, threaded shaft, axle spindle, or other similar screws. The nut has an improved construction and a lock that consists of a tiny pin that must be pulled out before the nut can be unscrewed.
Date:
September 19, 1893
Creator:
Stewart, William Mills
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed-planter, with illustrations. The "invention relates to an improved seed-planter, adapted to be attached to and operated in connection with any ordinary plow for planting wheat, corn, cotton, or other seed (line 25-28).
Date:
December 19, 1882
Creator:
Brown, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head-Rest For Barbers' Chairs
Patent for a headrest to be used for chairs used by barbers and doctors. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Wallace, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History