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Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.

Date: April 25, 1893

Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Fine-Proof Cotton-Lint Rooms.

This patent is a receiver that is portable and provides a unique way of catching the lint that is ejected from a cotton-gin when in use. The portable receiver helps to prevent fires.

Date: April 9, 1878

Creator: Morrell, Zachariah N.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hose or Pipe Coupling.

Patent for a hose or pipe coupling meant to "provide a coupling of great simplicity of construction forming a tight and efficient connection by which the hose can be connected without turning it, without the screwing together of the sections and without a loose washer within one of the couplings which is readily lost and quickly gets out of order" (lines 12-19).

Date: April 16, 1895

Creator: Conley, Andrew J.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists "[i]n a nut-lock, the combination, with a screw-threaded bolt and nut, of a pair of arms pivoted or hinged together, said arms having annular screw-threaded grooves formed therein adapted to register with the threads on the bolt, and means for locking the arms together" (lines 76-81).

Date: April 27, 1886

Creator: Clark, Fred

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Funeral Program for Vera Smith, April 14, 1965]

Funeral program for Sister Vera Smith, died April 8, 1965. The funeral was held April 14, 1965 at Emmanuel A. M. E. Church, officiated by Reverend B. T. Langham. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home and she was buried in Atlanta Cemetery in Luling, Texas.

Date: April 14, 1965

Item Type: Pamphlet

Partner: San Antonio Public Library