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Improvement in Weighted Horseshoes.
Patent for improvement in weighted horseshoes, which are used in horse training for gait improvement. The horseshoes have removable weights received by a flange and held in place by screws. The weight may be formed in various shapes to correct different issues.
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Seixas, Eugene E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
Patent for improvements on insect destroyers to be used in cotton fields, including illustrations.
Date:
October 16, 1877
Creator:
Fordtran, Eugene H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames
Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for a new and improved plow-stock. This design is of "an improved plow-stock, which shall be so constructed that various kinds of standards, according to the various kind and size of the plows to be used, may be attached to it, which may be adjusted to take and leave land, as may be desired, and which shall be simple in construction and easily adapted" (para. 4).
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Weber, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History