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Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses.
Patent for the improvement of lint-rooms and cotton presses, including a description and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1870
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fruit-Corers.
Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
Date:
December 17, 1872
Creator:
Alexander, Oscar W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for improvement in animal-traps, with description and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1876
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Single-Trees.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Wooden Single-Trees" (lines 3-4), "for plows and other similar drafts" (lines 15-16), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 18, 1877
Creator:
Bass, Thomas Gibson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.
Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.
Date:
December 5, 1871
Creator:
Bond, Virgil A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators
Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Brodnax, David W., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
Patent for a "new and valuable improvement in cotton-planters" (lines 3-4), for planting cotton seeds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Bronaugh, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
Patent for "an improved hub for buggy and other vehicle wheels, which shall be simple in construction, strong, and durable, and which will run with little friction." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1873
Creator:
Brown, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "a new buckle or tie for holding the ends of the bands of cotton-bales" (lines 18-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1871
Creator:
Brown, Floyd G.
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 Adding-Machines.
Patent for an improved adding-machine design.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Butt, Dennis, L. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
Patent for a device to destroy "winged insects which are destructive to the cotton plants and other vegetation" (lines 19-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1870
Creator:
Byrne, Thomas; Strunk, Diedrich & Schott, J. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale - Ties.
Patent for new and improved bale - tie, and to be applied to other things, such as barrels, tubs, bracelets, and ladies' garters.
Date:
December 29, 1874
Creator:
Cain, Washington G.
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 Plows.
Patent for new and useful improvement in Skeleton Tillage-Plow.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Canty, Thomas
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 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 Force - Pumps.
Patent for new and improved force pump with three cylinders.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Chambers, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for a new design for a subsoil plow. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Clifton, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc.
Patent for the improvement of presses for hay and cotton, by means of a screw. It includes an illustration and description.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Cunningham, Matthew G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Dawson, William Wyatt
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 Sheet-Metal Cans.
Patent for sheet-metal cans, specifically a spout attachment for cans.
Date:
December 3, 1872
Creator:
Delany, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History