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Improvement in Tanning. (open access)

Improvement in Tanning.

Patent for improvements in tanning materials: "extractive matter for the manufacture of leather from the wood and bark of the mesquit - a tree of extensive growth on the prairies of western and north western Texas" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 5, 1865
Creator: Park, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Cotton Cultivator. (open access)

Improvment in Cotton Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators: "designed more especially for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth away from the young plants, and thinning out the same" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 18, 1866
Creator: Foster, A. K. & Foster, B. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for an improved seed-planter "which will deposit the seeds in the requisite quantities and proper distances apart, and which will cover and mark the bills, so that a plowman will not be at a loss where to start at the commencement of a new row, and after having passed around tree-stumps or other obstructions, as he can always see the marks on the preceding rows" (lines 16-23) with illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1869
Creator: Woods, David C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine. (open access)

Improvement in Field Threshing-Machine.

Patent for "a new threshing-machine, which is arranged upon wheels, so that it can be drawn over the field" (lines 12-15) and make the process for which it was built: more efficient. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: December 31, 1867
Creator: Tucker, A. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Operating Pumps. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Operating Pumps.

Patent for a new and improved water pump operating system. The patent includes an illustration and instructions.
Date: December 7, 1869
Creator: Moore, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for improvement in plows: "The invention consists in so attaching a revolving disk, cutter, or colter to the beam of the plow that it will rotate on its own axis, and vibrate laterally, to accommodate itself to the line of draft or direction of the beam of the plow; also, in the means used by which the revolving cutter or colter is attached to the beam of the plow, and having the means of swiveling or turning in the beam to accommodate itself to the line of draft of the plow" (lines 22-31) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 28, 1869
Creator: Hall, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Apparatus for Fumigating Plants. (open access)

Improved Apparatus for Fumigating Plants.

Patent for improvements in fumigating implements.
Date: December 17, 1867
Creator: Preston, C. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History