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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4901649 | Span bolster assembly A span bolster, for carrying a heavy load of a railroad car body and distributing the load to two four wheel two axle railroad bogies or trucks, is fabricated from steel plate and has top and bottom cover plates, top and bottom reinforcement doubler plate... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4860666 | Multi-axle, steered articulated railway vehicle with compensation for transitional spirals An articulated vehicle has two body portions which are pivotally connected and supported on a frame. First and second wheelsets are pivotally mounted to and support the frame. The third and fourth wheelsets are provided for supporting the other ends of th... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4485743 | High efficiency semi-articulated railway power truck A semi-articulated railway power truck has in preferred embodiment a pair of dual axle sub-trucks semi-articulated for creep force balancing turning control while retaining freedom of rocking and relative longitudinal motion. An equalized centered bolster... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4459918 | Steering truck A truck or double bogie having forward and rear elemental bogies (1, 2). The vehicle body is carried at the middle by a spanner bolster or two longitudinal coupling beams (8, 9) which are supported, at each end and on each elemental bogie, on the ends of ... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4357878 | Fluid load distribution system A load distribution system for railway cars, in which the load is applied to the supporting structure by fixed bearing arrangements, at one pair of longitudinally spaced points, at one side of the center line of the structure and is applied to the support... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4220096 | Bogie A wheel-bogie for supporting a crane, said bogie comprising a load-carrying foot, a main frame, at least two intermediate frames and a number of wheel frames; the transfer of the load from the foot to the main frame and from said frame to the intermediate... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4164906 | Schnabel car bogie An improved multiple span bolster or "schnabel" car arrangement in which a first arrangement is provided for inhibiting lifting of the lower inboard span bolster in response to compressive forces when the schnabel car halves are being transported empty an... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4162653 | Railway vehicle bogies resiliently interconnected axle boxes A railway vehicle or a truck thereof having at least three wheelsets, diagonal elastic bracing being provided between each pair of adjacent wheelsets and additional diagonal elastic bracing being provided between non-adjacent wheelsets.... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4160420 | Articulated schnabel Car A schnabel-type railroad car adapted to carry very large loads incorporating articulated end units having a massive hinge at a reduced pivot location so that the weight of the car can be carried at a central location on the trucks while still pivoting abo... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4150626 | Railway truck span bolster A span bolster arrangement for interconnecting a pair of railway trucks and mounting a railway vehicle chassis, the span bolster arrangement including a span bolster structure having side members interconnected by lateral members and being mounted on and ... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4150628 | Transversely shiftable pivotally mounted schnabel car A heavy load railway vehicle or schnabel car in which a load bridge is disposed between a pair of longitudinally spaced rail supported bogies and is supported on the bogies by arms on the ends of the load bridge which extend outwardly over the bogies and ... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4135703 | Mobile hot metal mixer A hot metal mixer has an elongate hollow vessel mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis adjacent each end on a cradle, each of which is supported on pairs of parallel trucks disposed on separate sets of rails. Each cradle extends transversely betwe... | 01/23/1979 |
