Improvement in Steam-plows. (open access)

Improvement in Steam-plows.

Patent for improvement in the apparatus for turning up soil with a steam plow.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Miller, Herman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Sulky-Plows.

Patent for sulky-plows.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Payne, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness. (open access)

Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.

Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Dawson, Paul R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Dish and Clothes Washer. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Dish and Clothes Washer.

Patent for a combined dish and clothes washer that has a tilting shelf for draining, attached to the sink for washing.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Jackson, Ansberry Chapman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in plow-stocks. (open access)

Improvement in plow-stocks.

Patent for an improvement on the plow stock that allows the user to use different plow blades and standards, depending on what kind of plowing needs to be done. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Price, James Alvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brooms. (open access)

Improvement in Brooms.

Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Anderson, Edward Americus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in cellular-wall building-blocks. (open access)

Improvement in cellular-wall building-blocks.

Patent for a building block that has an offset in the middle that allows one side of the block to make the outer wall while the other side makes an inner wall while leaving space between the two walls. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1876
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History