Resource Type
States
Improved Side-Saddle.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 26, 1870
Creator:
Smith, Fenwick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
Date:
August 9, 1870
Creator:
Stopple, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gun-Locks.
Patent for "a novel application of hair-trigger catch to the main trigger, which operates together with a holder and separate springs." (Lines 30-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Deutz, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Mills.
Patent for an improvement to upright coffee-mills, "whereby the bearings are always maintained in their true relative positions, while the strain on the two is made automatically counteracting, and each part of the shell firmly and effectually supported by the other." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Richer, Francois Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plow and Cultivator
Patent for a new gang-plow and cultivator design, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
Thornton, Sterling C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Feeder
Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including endless apron, toothed cylinder, and toothed equalizing and distributing bars. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
September 6, 1870
Creator:
Ralston, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Washing-Machine.
Patent for a machine for washing and wringing clothes, which can be used with a furnace for heating the water but has legs for support when being used separately from a furnace. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 13, 1870
Creator:
Moore, Alfred L. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills.
Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
Date:
November 15, 1870
Creator:
Westmoreland, Joseph M.
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 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 Cotton Cultivators, Scrapers, and Choppers.
Patent for a new cotton cultivator that allows for a worker to adjust the cultivator's angle based on soil depth.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Young, John H. W.
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
Fire and Burglar Proof Safe.
Patent for a safe "constructed as to be safe from fire and burglars, and at which the same time may be made lighter, and may be less expensive in manufacture than when made in the usual way." (para. 4). Additionally, safe is airtight and water-proof.
Date:
March 18, 1870
Creator:
Wilkins, Samuel Adams
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Tooth
Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
Date:
July 12, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Bridge.
Patent for an invention that "is to provide certain improvements in the construction of bridges, whereby the parts thereof, of wood, may be readily removed for the substitution of others, when decayed or broken, without interfering with the use of the bridge or weakening it (lines 10-15)". The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1870
Creator:
McDowell, H. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Double Pincers.
Patent for the improvement of double pincers by way of "double jaws, by which both sides of the shanks of a boot of shoe can be clamped and held at the same time."
Date:
March 29, 1870
Creator:
Maund, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Head-Rest.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Bedstead-Fastening
Patent for improvements in the mode of fastening the rail to the post of bedsteads.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Maulding, Pres.
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 Furnaces.
Patent for improvements in furnaces, using steam to create heat. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
April 12, 1870
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.
Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
Patent for an easily replaceable and self-lubricating carriage axle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 26, 1870
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 23, 1870
Creator:
McRae, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for improvements in cotton picking machines.
Date:
October 18, 1870
Creator:
Dreeson, Bartholdt
System:
The Portal to Texas History