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Car Ventilation.
Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1879
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binder for Paper Tablets.
Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1879
Creator:
Murray, Bredett C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cultivators.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Graves, Jefferson M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for Improvement in Rotary Engines concerning "the arms of the frame" (lines 9), which are powered by steam and "steam valves with arms" (line 17) including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Evens, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Use in Reciprocating Churns.
Patent for a churn that has "the cylinder with angular perforations, in contradistinction to round perforations and long slots" (lines 18-20) including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 12, 1878
Creator:
Forsyth, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Motors.
Patent for power-operated motors used "for operating churns" (lines 13-14), with the option of using spring-power, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 19, 1878
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
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
Improvement in Plow and Seeder.
Patent for a plow and seeder that has an added "rotating flanged drum composed of two perforated cylinders" (lines 10-11) including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 19, 1878
Creator:
Elliott, Pinkney H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Gin-Saw-Filing Machines.
Patent for improved circular file for gin-file-machine.
Date:
February 6, 1878
Creator:
Eastham, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for a plow for use in heavy or wet lands, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1879
Creator:
Woodward, Lewis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for a cotton-seed planter with improvements in "the construction and arrangement of the parts" (lines 18-19) including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 26, 1878
Creator:
Nix, Manning L.; Stone, James M. & Anderson, Levi
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Ringing Bells.
Patent for improvements in the construction of devices for ringing bells, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1879
Creator:
Perry, Elton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compound Engines.
Patent for "a series of engines for working the steam over by exhausting it from the first into the second, and so on, for utilizing the pressure lost when steam is exhausted from a single engine into the air..." (lines 7-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 16, 1875
Creator:
Bell, Jackson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Binding Grain
Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date:
February 13, 1875
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new improvement in apparatus for wiring picket-fences to hold the wires tight, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Parks, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an invention of a new and improved sulky-plow, "which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plow to take or leave land, and to work at any desired depth in the ground, which will enable the plow to be readily raised from the ground" (lines 13-17). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Riddle, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
Patent for, "an improved construction and arrangement of vapor-burner, by which the same is readily lighted, adjusted to a larger or smaller flame, or extinguished" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Sawyer, Frederick A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments
Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date:
February 11, 1873
Creator:
Hart, Richard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vibrating Propellers
Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Macowitzky, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Key, Minter P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Mills
Patent for an improvement in saw mills, with illustration.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Linder, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears.
Patent for running-gear on carriages that "consists mainly in improvements in the connections of the axles with the springs, perch, and other parts" (para. 5), with illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1876
Creator:
Gilmore, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Adjustable Cultivators"
Date:
February 8, 1876
Creator:
Price, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History