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Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for new improvement in the construction of horse-powers for cotton-gins and other machinery, including illustration.
Date:
February 17, 1874
Creator:
Landes, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Urban, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guards for Wire Bale-Ties.
Patent for improving the method of tying the bales together whether it be cotton or hay so that the material will not get cut into by the wiring.
Date:
February 7, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
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-Bale Ties.
Patent for a detachable and re-useable cotton-bale tie, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1875
Creator:
Jones, Henry Bradly
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date:
February 2, 1875
Creator:
Reese, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.
Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Erlenmeyer, Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grain-Binders
Patent for improved design of grain-binders.
Date:
December 6, 1875
Creator:
Postley, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties by using a “divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale, and the ends whereof are joined by a fastening at the one end of said band, arranged to interlock with an one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band for the purpose of binding or holding the bale together.” (Lines [11-17]) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 15, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-ties.
Patent for "an improvement on the patented bale-tie" (lines 15-16) which includes lugs to "lock" the tie (line 22) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Horton, Jesse R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses.
Patent for new improvement in press, including illustration.
Date:
February 10, 1874
Creator:
Fields, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like
Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
Date:
February 16, 1875
Creator:
Trible, Herndon & Davis, Nicholas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for "an improved gang-plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plows to take or leave land, and which will enable the wheels to be adjusted closer to or farther from the plows, as may be desired." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Cummins, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Welch, John M.
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 Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.
Patent for "the invention of a new and useful Improvement in Combined Cotton Scraper and Chopper" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
McClaugherty, William H.
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
Improvement in Washing Machines.
Patent for the improvement of washing machine mechanisms.
Date:
February 14, 1871
Creator:
Jones, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in fluting-iron
Patent for an improvement in fluting iron, involving a hollow smoothing and glossing iron.
Date:
February 27, 1875
Creator:
Fisher, William F. & Brown, Amos C.
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