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Draft Rigging for Railway Cars

Description: Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Saling, Thomas W.
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Headlight.

Description: Patent for a train engine headlight, which shines light around a curve.
Date: August 25, 1908
Creator: Bell, Robert A. & McKiel, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting

Description: Patent for "cutting key-seats in shafting machine. It provides a portable key-seat-cutting especially adapted to operate upon the driving shafts of locomotives in key-seating eccentrics thereon." (lines 7-13)
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Matheus, Karl
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Spirometer

Description: Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date: August 4, 1903
Creator: Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
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