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Crossover

Description: Patent for cross-overs in railways to prevent collisions of trains traveling on intersecting track ways
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Miller, Sam P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from Dudley W. Peterson to I. H. Kempner, February 20, 1951]

Description: Letter from Dudley W. Peterson to I. H. Kempner informing Mr. I. H. Kempner about the arrangements for a trip involving seventeen members, including details on replacements and additional invitees. He discusses the logistical arrangements with Braniff Airways and the participation of various committee members. A postscript mentions further adjustments, including inviting Floyd Bradshaw and H. G. Perry, bringing the total number of attendees to nineteen.
Date: February 20, 1951
Creator: Peterson, Dudley W.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Cane Mill.

Description: Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Webb, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Book

Description: Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1901
Creator: Rhodes, Samuel E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform . . . having a spring buffer and a projection adjacent to and to one side of the buffer . . . the catch pivotally secured below the same and having a series of coupling shoulders on one side, the spring, and the stop arranged to act upon the side of the catch from which the coupling shoulders project" (lines 89-98).
Date: September 6, 1887
Creator: Ashford, Thomas Gresham
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the draw-head having the open space at its front end, the longitudinal groove in its side, extending rearward from said space, and the transverse recess at the rear end of said groove, the coupling bar resting in the groove and having a lug at its rear end" (lines 92-98). Said lug is "pivoted in the recess, and the hook at its front end arranged within the open space, and the spring having its rear end secured to… more
Date: December 6, 1887
Creator: Keith, John David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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