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Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Goodin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Axle Boxes.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in carriage-axle boxes and spindles" (lines 3-5), includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Sitton, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Bronaugh, David
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 Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.
Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Hyde, James Boyd
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 Rifle-Barrels.
Patent for a "new and useful improvement in firearms" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations. The invention provides "a gun-barrel with a number of cutters or plows for grooving the ball, said cutters or plows to correspond with with the number of guides or ribs which the gun is formed" (lines 20-25).
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Littlejohn, William
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
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Dawson, William Wyatt
System:
The Portal to Texas History