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Car Replacer

Description: Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Bowman, James M.
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Train-Marker and Signal-Lamp.

Description: 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 fo… more
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Cook, Marion P.
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Reicing Cars.

Description: Patent for an ice storage receptacle and crushing apparatus which supplies the refrigerator cars on a train with fresh ice.
Date: May 18, 1915
Creator: Tobin, Patrick H.
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Relay.

Description: 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).
Date: May 18, 1909
Creator: Rice, Hugh C.
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Improvement in Rerigerator-Cars.

Description: 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.
Date: January 18, 1876
Creator: Zimmerman, Arnold W.
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