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Cart-Saddle
Patent for a more animal-friendly saddle to attach a horse to a cart by adjusting the way the girth is handled as the cart is loaded.
Date:
April 1, 1879
Creator:
Franks, Ely Anderson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binder for Paper Tablets.
Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1879
Creator:
Murray, Bredett C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.
Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter.
Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Board Roofing.
Patent for a new design of roofing board. The wooden boards are designed to "contract and expand with changes of temperature" (para. 3) and to allow rain to run off without seeping into the joints of the boards.
Date:
December 19, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Gun-Locks.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Grisham, James Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Hive.
Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1878
Creator:
Walton, George Slaughter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Washing Machine.
Patent for "Improved Washing Machine" in combination with a boiler, "and with a furnace on which the boiler rests".
Date:
June 28, 1870
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stilts
Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
Date:
March 28, 1876
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics
Patent for an improved device to measure textiles and other similar fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 13, 1877
Creator:
Bond, Virgil A.
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 Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds.
Patent for "an anti-corrosive coating for iron and all other metals, and one which in all respects does positively preserve the same, and into the composition of which enters as an element neither lead, oil, nor any other ingredient that contains any destructive or otherwise deleterious acid or alkali." (Lines 7-13) Includes instructions.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses
Patent for "a new and improved cotton-press" (line 3) using a stationary toothed wheel, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1870
Creator:
Booton, Sinclair
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History