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Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
Date:
January 13, 1874
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas Rivers
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Planters.
Patent for a cotton-planting machine which "consists in a distributing-drum, having seed-openings through it, and inclined distributing-agitators inside of it, said drum being applied to turn in a frame which is pivoted to the beam of a shovel-plow, whereby the roller will accommodate itself to inequalities of surface passed over, and uniformly discharge the seed in the drill-rows, after which a drag or coverer will cover up the seed." (Lines 18-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 13, 1874
Creator:
Remsen, Byron & Russell, John E. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Planters
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Cotton-Planter" (lines 3-4) with "construction and means to adjust the furrow-opener" (lines 6-8) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 13, 1874
Creator:
Troat, Oliver H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History