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Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for improvement in cotton-stalk pullers with beveled edges for firmer hold on the stalks.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Heacock, Cadwallader
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.
Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
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 Sawing-Machines.
Patent for improved sawing-machine, which can be operated either horizontally or vertically so that trees may be felled and cut up with one machine, the driving mechanism of which is in a protective housing.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Morey, Harvey & Bellah, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
Patent for a new improvement in the construction of road-scrapers to make them more facilitating, faster, and with less animal power required.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Tate, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Cooling the Air of Buildings.
Patent for improvements to cooling apparatus for buildings, especially distilleries and breweries. Illustration included.
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Mühl, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Ford, Isaac M.
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
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
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
Date:
January 13, 1874
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas Rivers
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