Resource Type
Counties
Decade
Month
480 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Improvement in Trusses.
Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Baker, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Elevators.
Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 13, 1871
Creator:
Bishop, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth.
Patent for "a rule for giving to the backs of saw-teeth such an angle as will allow the teeth to be made of proper strength and at the same time to be chambered out and pointed so that they will cut the wood like chisels instead of scraping or tearing the wood." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1871
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saws.
Patent for improvements to circular or straight saws that steady the saw and prevent vibration and buckling. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1871
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1872
Creator:
Svenson, Bengt Johan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1872
Creator:
Svenson, Bengt Johan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
Date:
June 23, 1874
Creator:
Domschke, Carles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
Date:
January 26, 1875
Creator:
Miller, La Fayette Kohler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Clements, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Shelley, Nathan G.; Bozarth, Stephen P. & Spring, David V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Irons.
Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grain-Binders
Patent for improved design of grain-binders.
Date:
December 6, 1875
Creator:
Postley, Charles A.
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 Churns.
Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Rost, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Toy Trumpets.
Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an improved stalk-puller for use in pulling cotton-stalks in preparing the land for another crop.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Brown, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps.
Patent for an improvement in postage or revenue stamps. Patent for postage or revenue stamp "composed of two superposed sheets or layers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back". Patent for postage and revenue stamps that cannot be re-used.
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Beaumont, David G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Perry, Elton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Trees.
Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang Plow and Cultivator.
Patent for "a new and improved gang plow and cultivator" (lines 3-4), including instructions and illustrations. "This invention relates to a new agricultural machine which may be readily changed from a gang-plow into a cultivator, and vice-versa" (lines 15-17).
Date:
December 18, 1877
Creator:
Domschke, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Domschke, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Wheels.
Patent for improvements in the construction of water-wheels, including illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1878
Creator:
Cross, David L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History