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Locomotive Headlight.
Patent for a new and improved train headlight. This design "has for its object to improve locomotive head-lights by so constructing the reservoir and burner and mounting the same that they may be easily removed from and connected with the reflector without moving the latter; and it consists of a reservoir for the head-light having certain features of novelty and in various improvements in the apparatus as a whole" (lines 11-19).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Jobling, Lance L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Hanger.
Patent for a new and improved hanger for doors and gates. This design consists in "the brackets secured to a door or gate way at intervals apart and having the horizontal supporting arms, the track made of angle-iron and having the horizontal treadway secured to the arms of the brackets, and the upwardly-extending flange at the outer edge of the treadway, and the hangers secured to the door or gate and having their upper portions bent to form an inverted U-shaped yoke or frame, and rollers journaled between the sides of the frame" (lines 80-91).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Charlton, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism
Patent for a mechanism for drawing water from wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strainer for Oil and Water Wells
Patent for a strainer for oil and water wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Polisher or Brush.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in polishing brushes.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Dumble, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment for Motor-Vehicles.
Patent for a draft attachment by which a motor vehicle may "pull itself free when its traction wheels have become embedded in a soft or muddy road" (lines 14-16).
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Worsham, Louis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History