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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that consists of a pin, a lever, a catchbar, a drawhead that sits under the catchbar and guides it, a rack slide, and a curved lifter. It improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 437,734).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Testard, Adrian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel.
Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Wright, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck for Railway-Carriages.
Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machinery.
Patent for a mechanism that drills and bores; it attaches to a vehicle so the engine can be used to power the mechanism.
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Lee, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Driving Horses.
Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Williams, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch.
Patent for an improved railway switch that "may be operated by a passing car or train, and one which will be most effectual and certain in its operation and which will at the same time automatically adjust a signal at one side of the track which will indicate to the next approaching train the position of the switch" (lines 18-24).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Johnson, Samuel Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment.
Patent for a simple, strong, and durable back-band and chain trace attachment that connects the two. This holds "the chain trace and back-band in their proper places and thus prevent[s] chafing of the horse, &c., by the trace chain when it slackens" (lines 12-15).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Camp, John Cecil
System:
The Portal to Texas History