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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
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
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 Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
Date:
December 24, 1872
Creator:
Willhite, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Key-Hole Guards.
Patent for "a guard for key-holes of locks, to prevent the use of keys by unauthorized persons, the picking of the lock, and as a means for operating the bolt when fitted for that purpose." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1873
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-Bolting Machines.
Patent for a shingle-bolting machine.
Date:
December 1, 1874
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Floating-Docks.
Patent for an elliptic floating dock.
Date:
December 8, 1874
Creator:
Marcusey, Edward; Herbert, Dozier G. & Bunting, R. F.
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 Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds.
Patent for "an anti-corrosive coating for iron and all other metals, and one which in all respects does positively preserve the same, and into the composition of which enters as an element neither lead, oil, nor any other ingredient that contains any destructive or otherwise deleterious acid or alkali." (Lines 7-13) Includes instructions.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm-Poison Distributers.
Patent for new and valuable improvement in cotton-worm-poison distributer (distributor) to secure to a saddle upon a horse.
Date:
December 29, 1874
Creator:
Willie, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compound Tools.
Improvement in Kitchen-Utensil for lifting pots, kettles, plates, and as a means for holding a device for mangling meats.
Date:
December 5, 1876
Creator:
Mayfield, Samuel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Stretchers
Patent for improvement of bale-band stretcher design "for the purpose of taking out the slack of the band that cannot be taken out by hand." (lines 18-20). Included illustration shows bale-stretcher in both open and closed positions.
Date:
December 12, 1876
Creator:
Pearre, Charles M.
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 Combination-Hoes.
Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Nelson, David A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Goodin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.
Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Hyde, James Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cultivator and Planter.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a combined corn and cotton planter and cultivator" (lines 3-6), includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 18, 1877
Creator:
Skinner, Miles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Domschke, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
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 Combination-Padlocks.
Patent for "a padlock in which the permutation locking device is not permanently connected to the hasp; and said invention consists of a permutation device the fixed ends whereof are provided with sockets to receive the ends of a separate hasp, and be locked therewith by a notched bolt passing through the permutation device and both ends of the hasp, whereby the usual hinged connection of the parts is avoided, and the padlock made more secure and cheaper than when the parts are permanently united." (Lines 6-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1873
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Attachments for Cultivators.
Patent for "a fan or blower conjoined with a box containing any of the various powdered poisons used for destroying vermin which infest growing plants, as cotton, potatoes, &c., operated by a pulley and band, running from the axle of the blower to a wheel on the supporting-axle of the cultivator, seeder, or other machine to which the apparatus may be attached." (Lines 19-27) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1873
Creator:
Hurd, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a butter churn.
Date:
December 15, 1874
Creator:
Sreeves, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History