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Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.
Patent for a new and improved cotton and corn planter design with an axle that has agitators, including illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1878
Creator:
Hall, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Condensers.
Patent to improve the compressing-roller design in a cotton gin, to keep the mechanisms from clogging. This is an addition to a previous patent by the same inventor that improved methods of cleaning the cotton. It includes an explanation with references, and illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1878
Creator:
Donovan, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a new and improved Shovel-Cultivator design with adjustable parts and various shapes of shovels, including illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1878
Creator:
Smith, Matthew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
Date:
December 17, 1878
Creator:
Piner, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-planter.
Patent for a machine that can plant any kind or size of seed or grain at any desired distance apart.
Date:
December 3, 1878
Creator:
Hoshall, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings.
Patent for improvement in car-axle bearings in which "it consists in a box having a chambered back for containing oil, and having grooves along the straight edges of its bearing-surface for receiving a wick, the ends of which extend through holes in the box into the oil reservoir.”
Date:
December 3, 1878
Creator:
Stratton, Asa E., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History