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Coffee and Teapot.
Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Heiss, Gregor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Roaster.
Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
November 23, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Anchor for Animals.
Patent for improvement in animals’ anchor in which it allow the animals to graze without being twisted or wound up the rope by using the combination of a swiveled loop and a pivoted loop with each other, and a pin. “This pin is made with four wings, or radial longitudinal flanges, tapering to a point at its lower end and is readily forced into the ground, and easily drawn out, but will resist a very strong side-draught.” (Lines23-27) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 8, 1869
Creator:
Raiford, P. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in portable press by dividing the pressing-chamber into two parts, one of which is fixed to the wagon-frame, the other part is movable. “The movable part contains the follower, adapted to be titled with it, and operated by the winding-drum, cords, wheel and the wings, working in the horizontal slots in the sides of these parts.” (Lines 81-85) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 12, 1869
Creator:
Berkeley, J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Compound for Destroying Vermin in Cattle
Patent for topical medication to kill screw-worms in livestock wounds.
Date:
August 10, 1869
Creator:
Kalteyer, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Compound for Treating the Human Hair.
Patent for an improved compound for straightening, softening and renewing the human hair, ingredients and proportions are listed. No illustration.
Date:
October 26, 1869
Creator:
Lount, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Ditching-Machine.
Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
McGehee, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Horse-Power.
Patent for an improvement in horse-powers (tread-powers) by changing the construction and arrangement of the driving wheels.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides
Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
Date:
July 20, 1869
Creator:
Bean, W. O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Power-Apparatus for Vehicles
Patent for "improvements to powered vehicles with combined rim-wheel(s) in combination with a truck(s), resting upon the inner and lower part of the rim, and supporting a carriage-body or frame, crank-shaft. with one or more pinions, and guide-rollers." (line 8)
Date:
August 17, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.
Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Perl, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat
Patent for the design of a facility to slaughter, pack, preserve, and cure meat.
Date:
June 29, 1869
Creator:
Fulton, G. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for improvement in brick machines by “providing the mixing and grinding-shaft with arms at the bottom, adapted in form and arrangement for pressing the clay through the openings, in the bottom of the curb, into the moulds, below, which rest on ways above a sliding carrier, provided with brackets, for forcing the moulds out.” (Lines 26-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Morgan, Asa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for improvement in buckles “which does not require to be sewed to either of the straps which it is to connect, and which will securely fasten and hold the said straps of bands in any desired position.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Clevises
Patent for an adjustable clevis, consisting of a hinged loop and an eyebolt.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in combined planter and cultivator by “combining instruments such as hoppers, plow-beans, brace-bars, foot-levers and many others that required for preparing the ground, planting the seed, and cultivating the plants and which may be easily adjusted for the various uses.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 16, 1869
Creator:
Switzer, W. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.
Patent for improvement in cotton-hoes for the purpose of saving time when spacing and thinning cotton plants by providing an angular handle with bent arms that can be attached to the back of the hoes. The hoe is made up with three separate cutters with spaces in between to allow young plants equally spaced in each row. The middle cutter can be removed when second thinning is needed to avoid injuring the plants. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picker and Cleaner.
Patent for improvements in cotton-picker and cleaner by using rotary breakers combined with fixed breakers to break the branches and outer coverings of the cotton in the bolls. The cotton then passes through an “inclined-way” where the rotary breakers are spirally-arranged on a concentric cylinder to carry the cotton out of the cleaner. (Lines 69-75) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plow and Planter
Patent for improvements to cotton-plows and planters.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows
Patent an improved cotton-plow with curved flanges, with illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
Patent for improvement in cotton-plows by making the plow blades curved for the purpose of breaking up the land to prevent the plow from clogging. (Lines 27-30) The plow can break up the soil and laying off seed-furrows simply by reversing and removing the blades to a different position of the frame. (Lines 59-60) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 31, 1869
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in cultivators by making all the beams that had blades attached to them adjustable by a lever. A roller is designed for covering the seed and smoothing over the ground after the seeds are discharged by a slider which is operated by a crank-shaft near the end of the machine. A detachable revolving stalk-cutter can be used for cutting stalks on the ground by means of a suitable connector at the rear end of the machine. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 7, 1869
Creator:
Baker, Job McNamee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in cultivators by using adjustable screw-rods from the ends of short laterally-vibrating levers to suspend the cultivator-beams in the front; the levers are arranged to be operated by an attendant’s feet. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 28, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History