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Improvement in Combined Land-Roller and Harrow.
Patent for an improved version of a combined land-roller and harrow that allows for easier cleaning of its parts and adjustment of its rollers.
Date:
September 30, 1879
Creator:
Smith, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Lever-Powers.
Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Franklin, Mathew Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Nette, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale-tie designed to "provide a simple, strong, durable, and easily adjustable tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc." (para. 4), using a hook, a band, and a beveled eye. The hook has a barb attached to the end, and is described as a double hook.
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Hill, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Double-Acting Force-Pumps.
Patent for a double-acting force pump that has "single cylinder and hollow piston-rod operate in connection with the upper and lower cylinder-valves, and with a valved piston adapted to have a reciprocal motion independent of and upon the hollow piston-rod, to discharge the water from both sides of the piston with a double action and in a continuous stream through said hollow piston-rod" (para. 2).
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Newman, Charles Elijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a medical compound consisting of magnesia, soda, potassium oxide, manganese, sodium chloride, acid phosphate of iron, sulfuric acid, and phosphoric acid. The compound is said to treat a wide variety of ailments.
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Coleman, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Stone.
Patent for improvement in the manufacture of Hydraulic Stone to furnish and improved artificial stone for use in different purposes that can resist weather changes without being affected.
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Dimelow, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons
Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
Date:
September 9, 1879
Creator:
Gibson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Speed and Time Recorders.
Patent for improvements in recording instruments to "document of all the movements of a locomotive while in charge of the engineer, to record any stoppages that may be made; the duration of such stoppages, and any backward motion of the locomotive at any point during the trip." (Lines 7-13) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 9, 1879
Creator:
Richardson, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Solar-Time Instrument.
Patent for a new and improved solar-time instrument with "the telescopic tube provided at one end with a lens, and at the other end with a removable diaphragm having horizontal and vertical lines marked thereon" (page 2).
Date:
September 9, 1879
Creator:
Hayford, Samuel
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 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 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 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 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 Guards for Sheep-Shears.
Patent for "an improved attachment that serves both as a guide and guard for preventing the cutting of the sheep in shearing, and by which even unskilled workmen can use the shears and cut the wool close to the skin without hurting the sheep, with by the point or edge of the blades." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for "a pump having two barrels of different diameters, the larger being subjacent to the smaller, and each provided with a valved piston, said pistons being both secured to the same piston-rod, in combination with a weight, arranged to counter-balance the added weights of the water-columns above the smaller and below the larger piston." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1878
Creator:
Beeman, Geraldo A. & Mason, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hodges, John C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Awning and Shutter.
Patent for a "combined fire and burglar proof shutter and awning" (line 5-6).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hoyt, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Perry, Elton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Faucets.
Patent for "an improved faucet, which shall be so constructed that it will not be liable to be injured by being screwed into and out of the cask, which will not be liable to leak, which will have the button of the valve-stem protected from accidental injury, and shall be simple in construction and easily operated." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Lempert, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Trees.
Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History