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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to improvements in that class of car-couplings in which the link is held in the draw-head by a tongue engaging the link; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-11).
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Meusebach, Otto C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow, of the board, the clip detachably securing said board to the plow-beam, the hopper secured to the rear end of the board and provided with the openings and brush, the lever pivoted upon the clip, the spring, the seed-slide secured to the end of the rear arm of the lever, and the dropping-tube screwed through its wing to the plow standard" (lines 37-46).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Cromer, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch Operating Mechanism
Patent for an automatic railway switch operating mechanism with improved levers and controls.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Hoffmann, Laniel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stub-Axle Adjustment Device.
Patent for useful improvements for Stub-Axle Adjustment Devices. This device will allow for the stub-axle to be efficiently adjusted in both a vertical plane and a transverse plane with respect to the machine.
Date:
November 8, 1921
Creator:
Kopplin, Otto E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History