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Boiler Washing Machine.
Patent for "Improved Washing Machine" in combination with a boiler, "and with a furnace on which the boiler rests".
Date:
June 28, 1870
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for cotton-bale ties with metal plates and hooks.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Lane, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Tanks.
Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1875
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E. & Shay, Samuel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows.
Patent for an improvement upon subsoil plows, using a series of spades arranged upon the same pulleyed rotary shaft, combined with furrow-opening plows.
Date:
March 28, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Joints for Railway Rails
Patent for improvements in box or "fish" joints for railroad rails.
Date:
May 28, 1872
Creator:
Wells, Jephthah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an improvement on sulky-plows which allows it to be adjusted for different uses.
Date:
August 28, 1877
Creator:
Renfro, Roberson A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Transplanters
Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
Date:
May 28, 1872
Creator:
Cook, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vehicle-Springs.
Patent for "an improvement in springs for carriages" (lines 4-5), including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Richardson, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tube-Fastenings for Boilers.
Patent for improvement of tube-fastenings for boilers which will secure flues in steam-boilers, including illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Walsh, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boilers.
Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Wash-Boilers" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1875
Creator:
Mackli, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stilts
Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
Date:
March 28, 1876
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters.
Patent for a device which rapidly heats a flat or smoothing iron utilizing a lamp with multiple burners which can be adjusted to raise the temperature of the flat iron to the desired degree.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Wilmot, Byron
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Locomotive Earth-Excavators.
Patent for "an earth-excavator, principally for use in making the road-beds for railroads, which shall not only do its work continuously, but which shall be equally efficient in throwing up an embankment or in making a deep cut." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1875
Creator:
Hawley, Abel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Fences"
Date:
November 28, 1876
Creator:
Sullivan, J. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Escapes.
Patent for improving fire-escapes and provides a portable instrument that "may be used for letting persons directly down from buildings, or for carrying them from the upper stories of buildings to others buildings at a distance" (lines 9-12).
Date:
August 28, 1877
Creator:
Staples, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
Patent for road scrapers, illustration included.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
Patent for a refrigeration apparatus "in which a continuous operation is maintained by means of a current of ether or other volatile fluid which liquefies at a low temperature." (Lines 18-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1871
Creator:
Mühl, A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for a new and improved turn-plow which "consists in several features of improvement, by which the preparation and tillage of soil may be done at less the usual expense, and more than the usual convenience to the farmer." (lines 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
White, Moses F. & Blankenship, Augustus J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-tie which is to be used especially with cotton, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Arnold, Lloyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plows, includes instruction and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plows, includes instruction and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Nitschmann, Franz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers
Patent for improvement for cotton-choppers. Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1879
Creator:
Sauls, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "a new and Improved Cotton-Press" (lines 4-5) with illustration.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Salmon, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History