Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for a "self-regulating windmill, so arranged that it will automatically exclude the wind from the wheel during storms and irregular or sudden squalls of wind, while it will equally enlarge the opening through which the wind is admitted to the wheel, whenever the power of the wind is reduced." (Lines 14-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Davie, John P. & Morgan, Asa
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills. (open access)

Improvement in Windmills.

Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Dewees, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools. (open access)

Improvement in Stone-Dressing Tools.

Patent for "an improved rotary hand-tool for dressing stone" (lines 7-8) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Gilmore, Louis C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Building Earth-Works. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Building Earth-Works.

Patent for frame-mounted grading machine mounted on casters or wheels with hinged platform.
Date: December 2, 1873
Creator: Morey, Harvey.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Hats. (open access)

Improvement in Adjustable Hats.

Patent for a mechanism improving the ability to adjust the shape of a hat to fit different sized heads. The patent is for an "adjustable attachment for enlarging and contracting" the hat's design.
Date: August 30, 1873
Creator: Cassiano, Ygnacio I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Agricultural Implements. (open access)

Improvement in Agricultural Implements.

Patent for improvements to a corn and cotton-seed planter with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Neal, Nathan P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for "an improved fastening for the ends of bale-bands, whether the latter be constructed of sheet metal or wire." (lines 18-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: Camp, Ira M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.

Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
System: The Portal to Texas History