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Wagon-Brake.
Patent for an improvement in a wagon-brake using an operating-lever that is mounted in a bracket near the front axle, and consist of diverging arms; and a segmental rack-plate with teeth that is arranged to be engaged by a sliding pawl. When the operating-lever and the sliding pawl are connected; when the brake-bars are in motion, clamping the wheels of a vehicle thus making it stop.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Baker, Owen T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watchmaker's Tool.
Patent for a watchmaker's tool that removes "the collet and hair spring of a watch from the balance wheel arbor, without injuring the hair spring of the watch and at the same time holding the balance wheel secure against accident or injury" (lines 10-14).
Date:
February 12, 1895
Creator:
Seyfriedt, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a rotary-blade stalk cutting machine. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Evridge, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Drafting-Instrument.
Patent for a combination drafting-instrument that is "carried about the person and serve as a combined pencil-holder and drafting tool and when used in the latter capacity to serve the functions of a divider, a square, a compass, and a caliper for either inside or outside gaging" (lines 10-15).
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Deats, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seat - Action Flushing Apparatus.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seat-action flushing apparatus. This design is to "provide a cistern into which the water is admitted only when the seat is occupied" (line 14-17).
Date:
February 8, 1898
Creator:
Ackley, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History