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Improvement in Sewing Machines
Patent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use."
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
Cleaver, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine.
Patent for improvements to the sewing machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
Clever, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tire-Tighteners.
Patent for improvement in tire-tighteners to contract a tire upon its felly without removal.
Date:
November 27, 1876
Creator:
Martin, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus
Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Martin, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.
Reissued patent for a chemical process to create a plastic material made of bitumen, clay, and mineral and/or fossil substances.
Date:
September 26, 1876
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.
Patent for mixing mineral or fossil substances with bituminated clay, creating a product that "is a dense, durable, and economical composition, suitable for building both small and massive structures, and for other purposes" (lines 54-57).
Date:
November 11, 1873
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.
Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water Elevator.
Patent for a new improvements to compressed-air water-elevators, including illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Bechtol, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine.
Patent for improvements to cotton picking machines "of that class in which the cotton-boll is caught on the end of a revolving picker" (lines 11-12). Improvements include a combination of a revolving drum with hollow tubular arms attached to the drum, as well as revolving pickers attached to those arms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvement in automatic car-couplings “in which the coupling-pin (worked by a rope or chain) is guided in a vertical tube extending upward from the draw-head, and is supported in position for coupling by a block sliding with the draw-head,” (lines 9-14) includes illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Angerstein, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for a hay press "so that two bales will be formed in the press. . .thereby saving time and labor, and also to simply the construction of the parts without the sacrifice of power, strength, and durability" (lines 15-20).
Date:
February 5, 1889
Creator:
Champion, William Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in hay presses "to simplify and cheapen the construction and render it more efficient in the formation of the hay into bales" (lines 16-18).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
McNeill, Charles De Witte
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of baling presses for compressing hay for baling.
Date:
July 12, 1887
Creator:
McNeill, Charles DeWitt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "improvements in baling presses: and it consists in a press having a suitable frame, a box mounted thereon having a hinged front and a hinged side." (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp.
Patent for a clamp "for use in in connection with hoisting-tackle for raising or lowering well-pipes..."(lines 9-10) that has one side attach to the pipe and the other side be releasable from the pipe.
Date:
April 9, 1907
Creator:
Danforth, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine
Patent for a cotton picking machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1911
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a hand-lever baling press.
Date:
December 25, 1900
Creator:
Williamson, Charles Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picking Machine
Patent for a cotton picking machine. Illustration included.
Date:
August 8, 1905
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins
Patent for a condenser for cleaning cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Riemenschneider, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Weevil Destroyer
Patent for a cotton boll weevil destroyer. Illustration included.
Date:
March 19, 1907
Creator:
Bergmann, Bertha
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Block-Signaling Device.
Patent for a block signaling device for railroads, which sends an audible signal as well as a telephone message to the incoming train.
Date:
October 6, 1908
Creator:
Fechner, William & Fechner, Albert Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Scraper Attachment for Disk Plows
Patent for an attachment for disk plows to "clean any disk in any kind of soil" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
December 31, 1907
Creator:
Fell, Julius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collar and Necktie Holder
Patent for a collar and necktie holder for holding the collar ends and tie at any position without the use of buttons. Illustrations included
Date:
January 16, 1912
Creator:
McDuff, Daniel Ryan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for a cotton picker. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History