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Improvement in Water-Tanks.
Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Securing Buckles, &c., to Straps.
Patent relating to "an improved device for securing buckles, rings, and similar articles to straps" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Barrow, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spring-Hinges.
Patent for a new spring hinge design which will "either open or close the door or gate after it has passed an angle of forty-five degrees" (lines 20-22) including illustrations.
Date:
June 24, 1879
Creator:
Barry, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Machines For Filing Saws.
Patent for improvements in the construction of machines for filing saws. Description of the construction and illustrations are attached.
Date:
August 19, 1879
Creator:
Basom, Ransford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Lamp-Burners.
Patent for a new improvement for Lamp-Burners that helps prevent explosions, including illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1879
Creator:
Beeman, Geraldo A. & Ramsey, Haley S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Shade.
Patent for a cotton-picking shade that will furnish a portable shade or shield for the use of cotton-pickers to protect them from the direct rays of the sun while at work.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
Benthall, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pruning Implements.
Patent for "an improved implement for trimming hedges and for cutting and laying down hedges" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Booker, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for an easily converted machine that can plan corn, drill corn or cotton, or cultivate growing crops, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1879
Creator:
Bowles, Talbot M. & Farmer, Joesph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Roofs.
Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames
Patent for improvement in hames by constructing them of sheet metal in order to prevent flatenning and wear on the hame. Explains how sheet metal hames are also flexibile in many attributes and because of this they are beneficial in many ways. Illustrations provided.
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spurs.
Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for an improvement in combined planter and cultivator that can be can modified for use in a cultivator, a gang breaker-plow or a seed planter. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Brown, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c.
Patent for a new and useful improvements to compouds used in the destroying of trees. Lists ingredients and dosages.
Date:
October 21, 1879
Creator:
Buchanan, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for 'buckles for harness or other purposes, adapted for connection to a strap or billet without sewing." (lines 6-8)Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date:
November 25, 1879
Creator:
Bugbee, George G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "an improved fastening for the ends of bale-bands, whether the latter be constructed of sheet metal or wire." (lines 18-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
Camp, Ira M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent relating to "improvements in harness-buckles" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Carnes, William J., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Buckles.
Patent for a new kind of buckle along with specifications for construction and illustrations of the buckle.
Date:
August 12, 1879
Creator:
Carnes, William J., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for improvements in buckles used for multiple purposes including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Carnes, William James Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a medical compound consisting of magnesia, soda, potassium oxide, manganese, sodium chloride, acid phosphate of iron, sulfuric acid, and phosphoric acid. The compound is said to treat a wide variety of ailments.
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Coleman, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Honey-Boxes for Bee-Hives
Patent for the new and improved construction of bee-hives. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Connolly, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Lighters.
Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Craig, Samuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date:
December 21, 1878
Creator:
Cummins, John Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Churns
Patent for improvements in the construction of a churn dasher. Descriptions and illustrations are attached
Date:
August 19, 1879
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History