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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
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design utilizes a strap-iron binder with notches along the sides that allow for a bail to clamp firmly within them; thus, the bale is fastened.
Date:
December 30, 1879
Creator:
Johnson, Jordan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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 Elevated Cable-Railways.
Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
Date:
December 16, 1879
Creator:
Reager, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.
Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Howe, Milton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mold-Boards for Plows.
Patent for an improved design for plow mold-boards that involves using holes and a water pump to keep the mold-board clear of earth.
Date:
December 30, 1879
Creator:
Fields, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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 Combined Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved planter and cultivator with illustrations. The invention furnishes a combined planter and cultivator constructed in such a way that "the seed dropping appliances can be readily detached and the machine adjusted for use as a cultivator." (lines 18-20)
Date:
December 16, 1879
Creator:
Tanner, James Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a new and improved construction and combination of parts used by machines that convert either into a cotton or corn planter, including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Rhea, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Steam-Engines.
Patent for an improved design related to reversible steam-engines meant to economize the space required by the engine and to provide a firm foundation that will allow it to be portable.
Date:
December 30, 1879
Creator:
Kriebel, Hosea K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a variety of cotton-bale ties that has has a series of notches and pins that lock together when the ends are brought together.
Date:
December 30, 1879
Creator:
Singer, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Convertible Cotton-Planter.
Patent for improvement in convertible cotton-planters. The mechanism has a seed-dropping mechanism and a rear or side plow covers the dropped seed.
Date:
December 20, 1877
Creator:
Willie, William T.
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 Buckles.
Patent for improvements in buckles used for multiple purposes including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Carnes, William James Sr.
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
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
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Hill, Abner R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Board Roofing.
Patent for a new design of roofing board. The wooden boards are designed to "contract and expand with changes of temperature" (para. 3) and to allow rain to run off without seeping into the joints of the boards.
Date:
December 19, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History