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Millstone-Dress.
Patent for millstone dress using mill stone.
Date:
July 20, 1858
Creator:
Loy, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arrangement for Supplying Air to the Furnaces of Stem-Boilers from the Wheel-Houses of Steamers.
Patent for the "improvement in supplying air to furnaces on steamers" (lines 5-6), including illustration.
Date:
December 20, 1859
Creator:
Brandy, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Polishing Marble, &c.
Patent for an improved machine that rubs and polishes marble using a sand and water box moving forward and backward to polish the stone without man power and tools, including illustration.
Date:
March 20, 1860
Creator:
Emmett, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress.
Patent for an improved millstone-dress that produce less heat while grinding by employing a greater number of furrows, including illustration.
Date:
March 20, 1860
Creator:
Littlepage, C. V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling Press.
Patent for improvement in baling press "for compressing cotton, hay, and other substances for baling" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 20, 1866
Creator:
Gillis, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Pot.
Patent for improvements to a coffee pot. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1867
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Cosmetic.
Patent for improvements in the composition of cosmetics for removing freckles or tan-discoloration, including a description.
Date:
October 20, 1868
Creator:
Wilson, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plow.
Patent for improvement in gang-plow by using an adjustable slotted cross-bar to enable the “plow-beams to oscillate, so that their landsides are always vertical, however uneven the ground may be.” (Lines 20-21) “This tool can also regulate the depth of the plows in the ground whereby the depth of furrow is adjusted.” (Lines 24-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 20, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Needle-Threaders for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for improvement in needle-threaders for sewing machines by using an “eyelet-frame that formed by two equal parallelopipeds. These parallelopipeds are being kept together by two springs and may be separated by pressing the pins toward each other.” (Lines 32-35) “The axis of a conical eyelet will be laid in the joint planes of the parallelopipeds, its apex in the front side, its basis in the opposite side of the eyelet-frame, through which eyelet the thread has to pass when the instrument is used and applied to the machine-needle.” (Lines 37-42) This instrument can be used with curved or straight needles. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 20, 1869
Creator:
Thielepape, Wilhelm C. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Velocipedes
Patent for improvements to a single-wheel velocipede.
Date:
June 20, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides
Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
Date:
July 20, 1869
Creator:
Bean, W. O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses.
Patent for the improvement of lint-rooms and cotton presses, including a description and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1870
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
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 in Fences.
Patent for improvement in rail-fence by using “triangular-shaped posted or couplings; it consists in arranging posts of a triangular form and a certain construction diagonally with the rails forming the body of each panel, so that long and short rails may be utilized.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 20, 1872
Creator:
Willie, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
Patent for "a new machine for removing the destructive cotton-worms from the cotton-plants without injury to the plants, and for destroying the worms," which "consists in the arrangement of a movable frame, which is by animals drawn over the fields to straddle the rows of cotton, and which is provided with brushes for sweeping the worms from the plants, and with jointed bottom pieces or slides, which crush them on the ground." (Lines 15-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Helm, Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined.
Patent for an invention "to combine a jack-screw or lifting-jack with a clamp, so that they may be interchangeably used." (Lines 19-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas R.; Jackson, Asberry C. & Watson, Claudius S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters for Treating Chills and Fever.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat chills and fevers which lists the ingredients and dosages.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Owens, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills
Patent for the improvement of wind mills, that includes a detailed description as well as labeled figure drawings.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Broom-Handles.
Patent for improving a spring-hinge joint that secures the broom during transportation.
Date:
July 26, 1873
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M. & Turner, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in washing machines. The shaping and components are meticulously detailed and indicate they play a part in the said improvement.
Date:
January 20, 1874
Creator:
Eberhardt, T. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 20, 1874
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Stamps, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid.
Patent for a process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History