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Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Wyckoff, Cornerius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-hives
Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Hayden, Noah Dunken & Clapp, Amasa O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hodges, John C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.
Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hoyt, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Methvin, Boling J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Messick, William P. & Messick, Harvey T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.
Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for a press that reduces the bulk of cotton, "allowing it to be baled into convenient form for transportation. It consists in a novel mode of attaching the side of the press-box, so that they can be speedily thrown down from the cotton after compression to allow its convenient manipulation. It also consists in a new mode of connecting the follower with its superposed lever, so that it can be readily turned up out of the way when the cotton is being filled into the press-box. It also consists in a peculiar mode of combining lever and the two followers to clamp and press the cotton in between them as if in a vise." (Lines 13-26) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 22, 1873
Creator:
Nelson, David A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
Date:
September 22, 1874
Creator:
Tottenham, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guards for Sheep-Shears.
Patent for "an improved attachment that serves both as a guide and guard for preventing the cutting of the sheep in shearing, and by which even unskilled workmen can use the shears and cut the wool close to the skin without hurting the sheep, with by the point or edge of the blades." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for an improvement in combined planter and cultivator that can be can modified for use in a cultivator, a gang breaker-plow or a seed planter. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Brown, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cloth-Registers
Patent for an improvement to a cloth-register that indicates the measurement in yards of particular goods. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Harrison, Abraham
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hydraulic Packings
Patent for an improvement in hydraulic packing for use in hydraulic rams. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers
Patent for an improvement in Horse Powers and in it's construction.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Smith, William W. & Randall, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale-tie designed to "provide a simple, strong, durable, and easily adjustable tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc." (para. 4), using a hook, a band, and a beveled eye. The hook has a barb attached to the end, and is described as a double hook.
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Hill, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Land-Roller and Harrow.
Patent for an improved version of a combined land-roller and harrow that allows for easier cleaning of its parts and adjustment of its rollers.
Date:
September 30, 1879
Creator:
Smith, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "a new and Improved Plow" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Freeman, Irvan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Solar-Time Instrument.
Patent for a new and improved solar-time instrument with "the telescopic tube provided at one end with a lens, and at the other end with a removable diaphragm having horizontal and vertical lines marked thereon" (page 2).
Date:
September 9, 1879
Creator:
Hayford, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses
Patent for a new and improved Cotton-Press. The invention relates to the press on which a Patent (No. 150,573) was granted May 5, 1874, to William B. Hollowell. It consists of a duplicate master-wheel on the drum for working the follower; also an improved contrivance for connecting the pitman to the lever and to its pivot, whereby the machine is rendered more efficient and may be lighter for a given strength.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Horn, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 30, 1873
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the structure of washing machines. The illustration and description show that an improved washing machine, formed by the combination of the open or ribbed roller F F and handles G g1 g2 with the box A B and perforated false bottom E.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Harper, Elijah S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Coloring Enameled Photographs.
Patent for improving the coloring process of enameled photographs by using collodio-gelatine instead of warm gelatine.
Date:
September 7, 1875
Creator:
Williams, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Blow Offs For Boilers
Patent for Improvement in Blow Offs For Boilers provides details of the construction of the blow off device with two labeled Figures and descriptive text. Also includes the significance of the blow off device and how it will improve locomotive travel by conserving water.
Date:
September 10, 1872
Creator:
Husted, Esbon Forrest
System:
The Portal to Texas History