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Churn Motor.
Patent for a new and improved churn motor. This design "consists in certain improvements in the construction of [churn motors], having for their object to produce a machine which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
O'Bannon, William H. & Snider, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Packing Cotton Press.
Patent for a new and improved self-packing cotton press. This design "consists in a cotton-press constructed with a pivoted double baling-box, a pair of rolls and their driving mechanism for packing the cotton into the baling-box automatically, and a screw-driven follow-block for compressing the cotton into bales" (lines 22-27).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
Rummel, Louis C. & Fielder, Emil J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. With this design, "[w]hen the cars are coupled, the shoulders upon the draw-heads will bear against each other, pressing the spring-bolts forward, which will tilt the free ends of the bails forward over the ends of the opposite draw-heads, thus forming a strong and safe coupling which may be uncoupled in a moment of time" (lines 92-98).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
Hathaway, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History