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Improvement in Cotton-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Plows.

Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
Date: July 29, 1873
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bleaching Resins. (open access)

Improvement in Bleaching Resins.

Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bridges. (open access)

Improvement in Bridges.

Patent for an improvement in Bridges and Self-Supporting Roofs and Girders. The invention provides instruction for "the construction of truss-bridges and self supporting roofs and girders"..."by nailing or bolting securely together successive layers of plank joined at different points."
Date: May 26, 1873
Creator: Davis, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants. (open access)

Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.

Patent for a method of destroying ants by digging a pit beside a colony, filling the hole with combustible materials and poisons, placing a pipe through the hole and into the mound, and then setting the pit ablaze.
Date: October 28, 1873
Creator: Dulany, John J. & Dreyer, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Billiard-Tables. (open access)

Improvement in Billiard-Tables.

Patent for a design for a billiard table that can also be used as a Jenny-Lind table. Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Waldie, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives (open access)

Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives

Patent for improvement in Recording Instruments for recording time, speed, and steam pressure of locomotives or cars or other machinery.
Date: September 26, 1873
Creator: Richardson, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Springs (open access)

Improvement in Carriage-Springs

Patent for improved design for carriage-springs with included illustrations of the spring design as well as diagram of placement on a carriage/wagon.
Date: April 29, 1873
Creator: Richardson, J. D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers. (open access)

Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers.

Patent for improvement in receptacle for oils, molasses, or thick liquid that permit liquid to be surrounded by steam or water and changeable temperature.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for "a new machine for removing the destructive cotton-worms from the cotton-plants without injury to the plants, and for destroying the worms," which "consists in the arrangement of a movable frame, which is by animals drawn over the fields to straddle the rows of cotton, and which is provided with brushes for sweeping the worms from the plants, and with jointed bottom pieces or slides, which crush them on the ground." (Lines 15-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Helm, Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for "an apparatus for exterminating cotton-worms by ejecting liquid poison upon the cotton-plants" (lines 6-8). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for a wheeled vehicular device to destroy cotton worms that can be connected to a horse or a wagon. It carries a poisonous cotton-worm destroying agent and disburse this substance on crops or foliage to deter worms.
Date: October 13, 1873
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
System: The Portal to Texas History