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19,457
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56
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19
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4
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
Collection
Texas Patents
18,569
Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
887
UNT Scholarly Works
76
Rescuing Texas History, 2019
5
The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
1
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1
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States
Decade
Month
Improvement in Remedies for Dropsy.
Patent for a medical compound to alleviate dropsy, consisting of grape-vine, spirits of niter, oil of grape-vine, extract of Spanish apple root, and common salt. Includes instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Lawhon, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Taps.
Patent for "a tool that shall combine the features of an expanding tap and reamer for reaming and tapping holes of different sizes" (lines 29-32) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 7, 1876
Creator:
Melvin, Josiah Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
Patent for "an improvement in the class of neck-yokes having a swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole; and it consists in providing the neck-yoke with a central enlargement or boss, and connecting the tube which slips on the end of the carriage-pole with the yoke by means of rings having perforated ears to receive the ends of a pivoted bar, to which the pole ring or tube is swiveled." (Lines 11-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1876
Creator:
Hannig, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pessaries.
Patent for an improved uterine supporter with changes to the arrangement of the wings, with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 31, 1876
Creator:
Barnett, Jonathan P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for "a machine for ironing clothing by means of a revolving heated roller, under which is passed a reciprocating table, on which the clothing is placed." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1876
Creator:
Bailey, Charles F. & Perrenot, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ventilators and Protectors for Roofs.
Patent for improvements in ventilators and protectors for roofs relating to "a ventilating combing or ridging for roofs of houses" (lines-15-16) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 24, 1876
Creator:
Brock, Ernst Moritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 17, 1876
Creator:
Davis, James Harvey & White, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "a perfectly-tight fastening - one that will not slip or give, and one that can be easily and quickly unfastened without cutting the band, or in any way injuring the part." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Krieg, Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "an improved plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use as a subsoil-plow, as a turning-plow, as a scraper and cultivator, and as a scraper, cultivator, and hiller, and which shall be simple in construction and effective in operation in either capacity." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Newton, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Cultivators.
Patent for a machine for "opening ditches to drain land and form fences, and to grade railroads, &c." (lines 15-17) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Tadlock, Sevier
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and useful machine for Plowing"
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Hodges, Ludia H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper.
Patent for an improvement in cultivators and choppers which will allow for the adjustment by height and width.
Date:
October 7, 1876
Creator:
Killough, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences
Patent for an improvement to portable fences so that they can be "easily and cheaply constructed in sections, and then quickly put together and firmly braced and supported." (lines 14-17) Illustration included.
Date:
October 3, 1876
Creator:
Martin, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Single-Trees
Patent for "a new and Improved Single-Tree and Breast Yoke." (lines 3-4) Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
October 3, 1876
Creator:
Flatau, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.
Reissued patent for a chemical process to create a plastic material made of bitumen, clay, and mineral and/or fossil substances.
Date:
September 26, 1876
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
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 land-drag and clod-crusher.
Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Crockett, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an improved stalk-puller for use in pulling cotton-stalks in preparing the land for another crop.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Brown, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for an improvement in ironing-machine which can iron clothes quicker and better with very little physical labor. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Nott, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Toy Trumpets.
Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.
Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Bunker, Thaddeus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Mathes, William McConnell
System:
The Portal to Texas History