Texas Patents - 9 Matching Results
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- Reicing Cars.
- Patent for an ice storage receptacle and crushing apparatus which supplies the refrigerator cars on a train with fresh ice.
- Compound Tool
- Patent for a compound tool which combines the features of the nut-wrench and the pipe-wrench.
- Closet-Seat.
- Patent for a toilet seat that helps support users with rectal diseases.
- Latch.
- Patent for a latch for swinging doors, which can be operated from either side of the door.
- Relay.
- Patent for an electric relay "which is normally actuated by weak currents, and adapted when abnormally energized by heavier currents to shift the local current from one connection to another in order to prevent the relay armature from sticking" (lines 10-15).
- Car Replacer
- Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
- Train-Marker and Signal-Lamp.
- Patent for a train-marker and engine signal-lamp meant to "provide a lamp in which the light may be differently colored and the change of color may be effected in an expeditious and convenient manner without the necessity of opening the lamp" (lines 10-14). It also provides "a guard or slide, whereby the opening through which the adjusting device passes may be closed, so as to prevent the wind from entering the body of the lamp and interfering with the flame" (lines 15-20). The lamp is meant for railroads and has two or more lenses, and is durably and inexpensively constructed. One color of light can be shown from the front and back and another from the sides.
- Churn Motor.
- Patent for a new and improved churn-motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame, the rock-shaft arranged longitudinally in the top of the same and having the arm and the cross-head, the dasher-rods pivoted to the cross-head, the crank-shaft journaled transversely in the frame below the rock-shaft and having the fly-wheel and the pulley, the pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the arm, the driving-shaft arranged transversely in the frame, the pulley thereon, and the belt connecting the pulleys" (lines 64-74).
- Improvement in Rerigerator-Cars.
- Patent for "improvements in refrigerator-cars for preserving fresh meats, vegetables, and other perishable articles while transporting them over great distance; and it consists of an ice-receptacle at the top of the car, provided with flat top and carved or inclined bottom." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.