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Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Angle-Plates for Doors.
Patent for a strengthening bracket for improving angle-plates for door hinges, such that the door will be supported from sagging at the hinge.
Date:
October 14, 1879
Creator:
Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sheet-Metal Vessels
Patent for a cylindrical vessel made of sheet-metal rather than tin. Including a inward double hanging ledge and two layers of metal soldiered together.
Date:
October 14, 1879
Creator:
Morris, Robert C. & McLane, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for the improvement of windmills, including illustrations.
Date:
September 29, 1874
Creator:
Symthe, Peyton.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medicinal Extracts.
Patent for the extract of Dasylirion graminifolium. This describes the method of acquiring the extract as well as illnesses the extra is purported to treat.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Bihl, Charles A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Kilns.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of kilns.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Taylor, Peter C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scrapers.
Patent for a horse-drawn excavator that includes a scoop attached to wheels.
Date:
June 16, 1874
Creator:
Arcos, Ignacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Nette, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gun-Locks.
Patent for "a novel application of hair-trigger catch to the main trigger, which operates together with a holder and separate springs." (Lines 30-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Deutz, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest
Patent for a head rest to be used in cars and other places and can be attached to a seat or shawl, including illustrations.
Date:
March 4, 1879
Creator:
McLane, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fences.
Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 23, 1872
Creator:
Lerick, Isaac N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Burns, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
Patent for a refrigeration apparatus "in which a continuous operation is maintained by means of a current of ether or other volatile fluid which liquefies at a low temperature." (Lines 18-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1871
Creator:
Mühl, A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Hats
Patent for an improvement to adjustable hatband which includes directions and illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1877
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for an improvement in animal traps to catch animals without bait, including illustrations.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
De Vilbiss, John W., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements applicable to a gang of plows. Ability to adjust depth, security of plow arms, and can plow three rows at once.
Date:
March 18, 1879
Creator:
Gifford, George Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Journal Coolers
Patent for improvement of car-journal coolers on railroad-vehicles, with illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1878
Creator:
Morris, Robert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
Dewees, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.
Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 14, 1876
Creator:
Cheesman, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dining-Tables.
Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddles.
Patent for re-enforcing and strengthening the front of a saddle.
Date:
September 13, 1873
Creator:
McGrath, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Rotary Valve And Seat.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of a rotary valve and seat. Specifications for the new construction and illustrations are included.
Date:
August 5, 1879
Creator:
Watkins, Edward L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bag-Fasteners.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in the manner of fastening bags and attaching labels or shipping directions" (lines 4-7) including illustrations.
Date:
June 17, 1879
Creator:
Terrell, Will
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims.
Patent for a "new and Improved Extension Hat Brim" (lines 3-4) with folding arms to extend the brim, including illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1873
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History