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Car-Coupling
Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date:
January 10, 1893
Creator:
McDade, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flood-Gate.
Patent for a flood-gate meant for use in mill-dams, races, and levees. Its intended use is to allow water to come to a certain height, and automatically release water once it gets past that point. When the water returns to a reasonable height, the gate automatically closes.
Date:
December 26, 1893
Creator:
Dean, Asa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date:
October 3, 1893
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History