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Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for an ant-trap using a portable receptacle with three different designs, each can be used as an individual trap or in any combinations to lure ants into the bottom of the receptacle without any means of escaping, including illustration.
Date:
August 7, 1860
Creator:
Cottingham, G. W. & Menefee, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medical Compound.
Patent for improvements in medical compound.
Date:
January 7, 1868
Creator:
Taylor, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medicinal Preparation.
Patent for improvements made the medicinal preparations generally used for poultices. The patented improvement involves the application of dried and powdered leaves, stalks, and joints of the cactus opuntia or cockinifer.
Date:
April 7, 1868
Creator:
Lege, Charles L.
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 Machines for Operating Pumps.
Patent for a new and improved water pump operating system. The patent includes an illustration and instructions.
Date:
December 7, 1869
Creator:
Moore, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.
Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1870
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks.
Patent for a new method for drawing off tallow, lard, etc. from pressure tanks by introducing water. This includes illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1870
Creator:
Archer, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
Date:
February 7, 1871
Creator:
Lister, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.
Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating car-axles
Patent for an improvement in axle lubrication involving an oil-elevator, axle-box and journal-box. Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 7, 1873
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a purgative medical compound consisting of a variety of plant materials.
Date:
October 7, 1873
Creator:
Barnett, Joel P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for an improvement on plows specifically designed to turn black Texas soil.
Date:
April 7, 1874
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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.
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 Adding-Machines.
Patent for an improved adding-machine design.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Butt, Dennis, L. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators
Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Brodnax, David W., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Boxes.
Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Kuehne, Franz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-machine.
Patent for to improve the construction of the shingle-machine known as the "Evarts Rotary Twelve-Block Shingle-Machine".
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Stewart, Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper.
Patent for an improvement in cultivators and choppers which will allow for the adjustment by height and width.
Date:
October 7, 1876
Creator:
Killough, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Taps.
Patent for "a tool that shall combine the features of an expanding tap and reamer for reaming and tapping holes of different sizes" (lines 29-32) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 7, 1876
Creator:
Melvin, Josiah Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Faucets.
Patent for a faucet "which is inexpensive in its construction, easily repaired, and efficient in operation" (lines 7-8), including illustrations.
Date:
August 7, 1877
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
Patent for a rope-and-pulley fire escape apparatus, including illustration.
Date:
August 7, 1877
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History