Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1897
Creator: Meier, Hermann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pilot-Coupling. (open access)

Pilot-Coupling.

Patent for "an automatic pilot coupling, which will enable the pilot bar of a locomotive to be coupled with a car by a brakeman while standing to the side of the locomotive out of the way of all danger, from which position he can accurately operate the device, thus doing away with all necessity for going between the moving engine and the car to which it is to be coupled." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 4, 1895
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
System: The Portal to Texas History