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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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines
Patent for "... an improved washing-machine which shall be simple in construction, convenient in use, easily operated, and effective in operation." (lines 12-15)
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Spray-Nozzles
Patent for an improvement on spray nozzles for use with force pumps. These force pumps are used for spraying insecticide on cotton to protect the crop from cotton-worms and other insects.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Yeager, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.
Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
Gilmore, Louis C.
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 Agricultural Implements.
Patent for improvements to a corn and cotton-seed planter with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
Neal, Nathan P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "an improved fastening for the ends of bale-bands, whether the latter be constructed of sheet metal or wire." (lines 18-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
Camp, Ira M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.
Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History