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Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for the improvement of the cotton press using screws and nuts in conjunction of a shifting pinion for changing the motion for the revolving wheels and shafts, including illustration.
Date:
January 27, 1857
Creator:
Parry, M. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement for planting cotton seeds using a toothed wheel and hopper, including illustration.
Date:
April 27, 1858
Creator:
Donovan, I. T. & Fowler, W. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.
Patent for the improvement of fertilizer-distributer which dispense fertilizers from a hopper with revolving arms that is mounted on top of a plow like machine, which would allow the fertilizers fall into the furrow. Including illustration.
Date:
September 27, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement of the cotton-seed planter in the arrangement of the hopper, roller with stirring and feeding teeth attached while distributing seeds accurately, including illustration.
Date:
December 27, 1859
Creator:
Kesler, Charles & Reinhard, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peach-Parer.
Patent for a paring device for peaches using prongs to hold and rotate the fruit while a blade pares the peach. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1859
Creator:
Hermans, Alva & Hermans, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement to cotton-seed planters by connecting the wheel to the reciprocating stirrer to guide the seed from hopper to soil and covering it, including illustration.
Date:
November 27, 1860
Creator:
McClanahan, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Ship-Viameter.
Patent for improvements in ship viameters.
Date:
August 27, 1867
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Stitching-Horse.
Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.
Date:
October 27, 1868
Creator:
Depp, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for improvement in seed-planters that is able to plant different kinds of seed by simply adjust the position of the lower ends of the end-plates in the seed-box. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 27, 1869
Creator:
Haupt, W. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.
Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 27, 1869
Creator:
Wright, Reuben
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Kilns.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of kilns.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Taylor, Peter C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Permutation Locks.
Patent for improvements to permutation locks by various means.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Hall, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Washing-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the structure of washing machines. The illustration and description show that an improved washing machine, formed by the combination of the open or ribbed roller F F and handles G g1 g2 with the box A B and perforated false bottom E.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Harper, Elijah S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Cultivators, Scrapers, and Choppers.
Patent for a new cotton cultivator that allows for a worker to adjust the cultivator's angle based on soil depth.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Young, John H. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for a new design for a subsoil plow. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Clifton, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc.
Patent for the improvement of presses for hay and cotton, by means of a screw. It includes an illustration and description.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Cunningham, Matthew G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Button-Hole Scissors.
Improved Button Hole scissors, where the scissors may be "adjusted vertically for suitable Cutting Hole length"(pg 2). The scissors have a "v-shaped" button hole cutter that can be adjusted to pierce the fabric at a desired depth and a tracing wheel.
Date:
February 27, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Place Fenders.
Patent for "an extensible fender adapted for large or small fire-places" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1872
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hand-Cultivators.
Patent for "hand-cultivators; and the novelty consists in the improved construction and arrangement of the stock, tongue, and plows; and in the application to the end of the tongue of a shoulder-strap to assist in working the implement." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1872
Creator:
Jones, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth Scrapers
Patent for improved earth scrapers, the class of which are " mounted on Wheel and provided with slatted carriers" (pg 1). This earth scraper has a novel system that allows the machine to be turned around and still used where other machines cannot do so (pg 1).
Date:
August 27, 1872
Creator:
Smith, Amroy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bleaching Resins.
Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for an improved gang-plow with an adjustable crank-axle, mechanism to raise and lock the plows, and a brace for increasing rigidity.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Cummins, Allison G. & Cummins, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Harness.
Patent for a new improvement in harness that "enables the detachment of the horse therefrom instantaneously" (lines 8-9) including illustration. It may also be called "safety harness" (line 10).
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Ellis, Ira
System:
The Portal to Texas History