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Apparatus for Producing Ammoniacal Gas.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator and ice machine. This design "consists in an improved construction, whereby the gas is relieved of its moisture before entering the condenser, a better apparatus is obtained, and repairs are facilitated and cheapened" (lines 12-16).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Lee, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvement to train brakes by using a car brake apparatus.
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Sledge, Clarence Linden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved brake for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with the brake, of an angle-lever on the end part of the car, a draw-head on the car, a lever pivoted on the same, a rod connecting the said lever with the angle-lever, a toothed locking-bar on the standard, and a pin on the lever on the standard" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Daudelin, Joseph M.T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Motor.
Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Koniakowsky, Alois M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pulverizer and cultivator.
Patent for improvement of pulverizer and cultivator, which according to the inventors, "pulverizes the soil in an improved manner, and with less expenditure in power in draft, and so that the land can be plowed close up to plants growing in rows, but which are not regularly in line with one another".
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Chambers, John R.; Chambers, Silas; Chambers, Asa & Davis, William Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History