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Rail-Joint
Patent for an improvement in rail joints, including illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Ferguson, George Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Planter Combined.
Patent for a new and improved planter and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame and the axle journaled in boxes on said frame and in bearings on the tongue, of the tongue journaled on the axle, the cross-bar connecting the side bar of the frame and passed through the tongue, and the screw-threaded rod passed through the side bars of the frame and through the rear end of the tongue and provided with adjusting-nut" (lines 53-61).
Date:
December 31, 1889
Creator:
Green, William R. & Green, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Open Link.
Patent for a new and improved carabiner ("open link"). This design adds a lip to the hinge to enable easier intentional opening and to discourage unintentional opening from striking against a foreign body.
Date:
December 14, 1880
Creator:
Sanders, John Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot.
Patent for improvements to coffee pot design including a bagged apparatus to hold grounds that are then steamed through a jet venting apparatus to brew the drink with accompanying illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1889
Creator:
Stidham, James Simeon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "a single structure in which the airbrake pipes and steam-heating pipes will be coupled together when the cars are coupled, and in which the several parts will be very compactly arranged. A further object is to provide means whereby the cars may be uncoupled by the use of compressed air" (lines 12-19).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Thomas, James Bryant
System:
The Portal to Texas History