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Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Description: Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
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Air-Brake Governor

Description: Patent for an air brake governor improvement that regulates the pressure of fluid or air in the braking system as to prevent it from braking with too much pressure.
Date: July 10, 1906
Creator: Williams, Leonard F.
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Compound Engine

Description: Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Symons, Wilson E.
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Annuciator

Description: Patent for an annunciator. "This invention is designed for use in connection with a complete traction system" (lines 13-14). The design drives instruments via a train air system so that air pressure is constantly maintained. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
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Air-Brake, Lighting, and Signaling System for Railway-Trains

Description: Patent for an electrical system which provides air brake, lighting, and signaling mechanisms for trains. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
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Air-Brake Coupling

Description: Patent for an air brake coupling for use on trains that opens the air valves when the coupling is attached.
Date: June 20, 1911
Creator: Winton, Robert A.
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Arc-Lamp Headlight

Description: Patent for an electric arc headlight for trains, cars, or boats which produces a steady light and lasts long enough to allow travel over long distances.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Lacy, Benjamin B.
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Automatic Air-Brake Appliance

Description: Patent for an automatic air brake appliance for railroad cars that activates if the car derails.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Baxter, Joseph Sewell
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Combined Stock and Freight Car

Description: Patent for improved stock-car with provided attachments for conversion to freight-car.
Date: June 19, 1906
Creator: Wyatt, Everett
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Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains

Description: Patent for an apparatus for cooling journal boxes on trains by sending water to the journal boxes from a water system installed in each car.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Andrews, Walter P.
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Beamless Brake Mechanism

Description: Patent for a beamless brake mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: McKiel, James B.
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Ash-Pan

Description: Patent for an ash pan for trains. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Spratley, George
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Chafing-Iron

Description: Patent for a chafing iron for passenger cars designed to prevent injury to passengers who place their hands in between the irons. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Labadie, Victor
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Air-Brake System

Description: Patent for an air brake system for trains which does not require waiting between uses for the brakes to recharge with air.
Date: December 6, 1910
Creator: Dillander, John
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Beamless Brake

Description: Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
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Air-Brake

Description: Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date: February 6, 1912
Creator: Mead, William E.
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Arc-Lamp

Description: Patent for an arc lamp which does not spark for use in headlights for trains and automobiles and in street lights.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Anderson, Thomas J.
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Axle-Box.

Description: Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable wheel-axle box that is "adapted to contain a supply of lubricating material and constructed to feed the same continuously to the axle-spindle to prevent overheating, and furthermore, to provide means for preventing ingress of dust" (lines 9-14).
Date: November 19, 1895
Creator: Casto, Tony Lo
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Air-Pipe Coupling.

Description: Patent for an improved air-pipe coupling that is airtight and watertight and has a flexible union for railroad cars.
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Thomas, James Bryant
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple cattle guard for railroads "which may be applied conveniently and economically to a cattle gap, and which will prevent cattle from getting their legs caught between the sleepers above the gap, which will also prevent cattle from passing over the gap, and which will frighten the cattle from the track" (lines 16-22).
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard that improves on patents previously granted to the inventor (No. 516,307 and No. 501,785). The improvements include "the provision of a counter balance or lever with a weight slidingly thereon, which can be adjusted so as to better regulate the platform (lines 25-28) and perforated guards, which will not get as damaged by the wind as non-perforated guards. The patent also includes springs under the platform instead of springs under the sills.
Date: September 11, 1894
Creator: Hills, Lorenzo
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Cattle-Guard for Railroads.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard for railroads that improves on preventing cattle from passing from their enclosure onto a railway track. The invention does not trap animals or people or cause injury, and lies below the upper treads of the rails.
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Brady, Peter L.
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Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Brady, Peter L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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