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Improvement in Cotton-Chopper
Patent for an improved Cotton Chopper. The device is horse drawn with adjustable wheels, plows and drivers seat (pg 2). Illustration Included.
Date:
October 8, 1872
Creator:
Matthews, Ebenezer T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Circular-Saw Mills.
Patent for an improved Circular Sawmill with an " improved adjustable feed mechanism" (pg 1). Illustration Included.
Date:
October 22, 1872
Creator:
Jones, John B.
System:
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Improvement in Chairs.
Patent for improvement in chairs consisting of self-adjusting chair-backs.
Date:
November 5, 1872
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
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Improvement in Hand-Vises.
Patent for hand vise to use as a tool for mechanics to hold small articles, can be attached to bits or augers for gauging the depth of a hole bored, and also for countersinking such holes for screws.
Date:
November 19, 1872
Creator:
Overton, Thomas
System:
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Improvement in bale-ties
Patent for cotton bale ties, involving a lateral arm. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1872
Creator:
Lloyd, Arnold
System:
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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:
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Improvement in Bailing-Presses.
Patent for an improved bailing press consisting of "a novel arrangement of levers, connecting-bars, and cords, in combination with the follower and windlass, whereby the follower is worked in the downward direction for pressing, and in the opposite direction for elevating it to recharge the press, by the said windlass" (lines 5-11).
Date:
January 2, 1872
Creator:
Randolph, Jeremiah
System:
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Insect-traps
Patent for an improvement in ant traps. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1872
Creator:
Stell, Japhthah W.
System:
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Improvement in Reversible Axle-Skeins.
Patent for improvements in reversible axle skeins: "My invention consists of cast mental axle skeins fitted on the axles, whether of wood or iron, so that they can be turned from time to time, as they wear away, to remove the worn place from the wearing position and bring a part not worn thereto." (lines 5-10).
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Smith, Andrew F.
System:
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Safety-Harness
Patent for a harnesses for horse-carriages designed to enable the instant detachment of the horse. Includes illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1872
Creator:
Ellis, Ira
System:
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Improvement in Beverages and Sirups from Mustang Grapes.
Patent for manufacturing a syrup by mixing brown sugar, water, and Mustang grapes.
Date:
June 11, 1872
Creator:
Wood, Joshua C.
System:
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Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for improvement in buckles by providing “with two two tongues on the same pivot, and with a guard for securing the same and the straps in position, thereby producing a simple and reliable means of connecting two straps.” (Lines 6-10) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 18, 1872
Creator:
Hardeman, Jerome B. R.
System:
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Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 16, 1872
Creator:
Houghton, Gideon H.
System:
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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:
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Improvement in Presses.
Patent for a new press design, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lasswell, Allen
System:
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Improved in Medical Compounds or Liver Invigorators.
Patent for a new medical compound to improve liver function.
Date:
January 9, 1872
Creator:
Simmons, William L.
System:
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Improvement in Car-Couplings
Patent for an improved car-coupling that lets cars couple automatically when they run together and uncouple automatically in the event of an accident. Includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
June 18, 1872
Creator:
Jourde, Alfred J.
System:
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Improvement in Car-Trucks.
Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 9, 1872
Creator:
Onley, Joseph
System:
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Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 16, 1872
Creator:
Fitzsimmons, Henry
System:
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Improvement in Cane-Seats for Chairs.
Patent for improvement in cane-seats for chairs by simplifying the process of dispensing the drawing of the cane through the chair-frame; thereby reduce materials used to produce the chairs. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 3, 1872
Creator:
Howe, Will F.
System:
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Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for an improved cotton-picking machine, including illustrations.
Date:
September 3, 1872
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
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Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Allen, Henry & Baldwin, Addison H.
System:
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Improvement in railroad switches
Patent for an improvement in railroad switches, including illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1872
Creator:
Fitzsimmons, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Button-Hole Scissors.
Improved Button Hole scissors, where the scissors may be "adjusted vertically for suitable Cutting Hole length"(pg 2). The scissors have a "v-shaped" button hole cutter that can be adjusted to pierce the fabric at a desired depth and a tracing wheel.
Date:
February 27, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
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