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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 Machines for Tightening Iron Bands on Bales.
Patent for an apparatus that consists of "a series of metal bars to be inserted between what is known as the 'channel bars or teeth,' both on the upper and lower platens of a compress used for compressing cotton-bales, which bars thus inserted shall be so attached to the channel-bars that, by the force of springs, the said bars will be kept below the surface of the teeth on the platens, allowing ample space to insert the iron bands to be used in tying the bales, in the same manner as they are now universally inserted." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Quin, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.
Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Parry, Morgan L.
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 Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hodges, John C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date:
November 3, 1877
Creator:
Boone, John Baxter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters
Patent for improvements in rail road-car breaks, starters, and checkers. "The nature of the invention consists in certain constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts" (lines 19-21).
Date:
April 24, 1877
Creator:
Marean, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a cotton-picking machine" (lines 15-16) using wire brushes on rods and chains, including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Graves, Clinton E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car Brake and Starter.
Patent for improvements in car brakes "of novel and simple construction" (lines 24-25).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Marean, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History