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Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives (open access)

Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives

Patent for improvement in Recording Instruments for recording time, speed, and steam pressure of locomotives or cars or other machinery.
Date: September 26, 1873
Creator: Richardson, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for a new and improved baling-press including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 30, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for an improvement in link and pin car-couplings, including illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1874
Creator: Moyer, Alexander L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Destroying Cotton Worms. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Destroying Cotton Worms.

Patent for a machine to distribute poison to destroy Cotton Worms, including illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1874
Creator: Davis, Nicholas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rein-Holders. (open access)

Improvement in Rein-Holders.

Patent for "improvement in a class of rein-holding devices consisting each of a pivoted, vertically-swinging cam or locking-jaw and a frame...for attachment to the dashboard of a carriage or other vehicle." (lines 7-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1874
Creator: Royse, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes. (open access)

Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.

Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1874
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dough Kneaders and Cutters. (open access)

Improvement in Dough Kneaders and Cutters.

Patent for new U-shaped dough kneader and cutter, with illustrations
Date: September 21, 1874
Creator: MÓ§ckli, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Bale Ties (open access)

Cotton - Bale Ties

Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Szabo, Alexander A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.

Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Tottenham, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows.

Patent for an improvement in subsoil plows to pulverize soils, including illustrations.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Mangham, Josiah T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spike-Extractors. (open access)

Improvement in Spike-Extractors.

Patent for "an improvement in the class of nail-extractors in which a gripe or grapple formed of pendent springs or hinged jaws is employed." (lines 7-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 29, 1874
Creator: Devine, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for the improvement of windmills, including illustrations.
Date: September 29, 1874
Creator: Symthe, Peyton.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churn-Dashers. (open access)

Improvement in Churn-Dashers.

Patent for "construction and arrangement of a churn-dasher..." ( lines 13-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1875
Creator: Bright, John, D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Coloring Enameled Photographs. (open access)

Improvement in Processes of Coloring Enameled Photographs.

Patent for improving the coloring process of enameled photographs by using collodio-gelatine instead of warm gelatine.
Date: September 7, 1875
Creator: Williams, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters. (open access)

Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters.

Patent for improvements to sad-iron heaters, including illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1875
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms. (open access)

Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.

Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1875
Creator: Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for "a new and Improved Plow" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1875
Creator: Freeman, Irvan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in stilts. (open access)

Improvement in stilts.

Patent for an improved stilt involving a stilt-rod and a tube that can be slid. Includes illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1875
Creator: Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress. (open access)

Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.

Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Reisel, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wheel-Plows. (open access)

Improvements in Wheel-Plows.

Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date: September 21, 1875
Creator: Flow, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boilers. (open access)

Improvement in Wash-Boilers.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Wash-Boilers" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date: September 28, 1875
Creator: Mackli, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: September 28, 1875
Creator: Stephens, Lawrence E. & Shay, Samuel F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles. (open access)

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