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Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Dockstader, Adam B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses
Patent for new cotton and hay presses with new bailing designs, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Methvin, Boling J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
Date:
September 4, 1877
Creator:
Harding, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
Patent for an improved fire escape "apparatus for receiving without injury persons or goods falling from windows of burning buildings" (line 18-20).
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Shishmanian, George N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
Patent for an improvement on neck-yokes that have a "swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole" (line 18-19).
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Hannig, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for improving the washing machine by being operated by a spring-motor.
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
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
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Payne, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History