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Cylinder-Cock

Description: Allows the cylinder cocks on a steam engine to be opened or closed using a coiled spring instead of steam or air pressure to ensure it is opened only when the engineer wants.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Galey, John Martin
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Car Fender.

Description: Patent for a car fender "adapted to be fitted to an extremity of a street car, and adapted to undergo an automatic swinging motion when an obstacle is encountered, which motion will tend to sweep the obstacle from the track of the car" (lines 10-15). The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Russell, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Angle-Cock.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved angle-cock so constructed that the plug cannot be turned by an unauthorized person without the knowledge of the engineer in charge of the train." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1896
Creator: Waldron, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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