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Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.

Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date: February 24, 1874
Creator: Urban, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guards for Wire Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Guards for Wire Bale-Ties.

Patent for improving the method of tying the bales together whether it be cotton or hay so that the material will not get cut into by the wiring.
Date: February 7, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic-Gates. (open access)

Improvement in Automatic-Gates.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Farm-Gates" (lines 3-4) allowing persons riding to open and close a swinging gate.
Date: March 3, 1874
Creator: Kenney, Martin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for improved bale-tie fastener with flattened hook.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps. (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps.

Patent for an improvement in animal traps to catch animals without bait, including illustrations.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: De Vilbiss, John W., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for an improvement on plows specifically designed to turn black Texas soil.
Date: April 7, 1874
Creator: Payne, Joseph Mott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps

Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Portable Fences.

Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
Date: April 21, 1874
Creator: Griffin, James Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn-Planters.

Patent for "corn-planters in which the corn is planted in hills or rows; and the particular features of [the] invention consist in the combination, with a pivoted rising and descending charger or cup, of a sleeve-seat for said charger, a charger-carrying stem, and the seed-hopper, whereby the charger is held and carried in position upon a seat to fill, to rise from said seat, and to dump upon its pivot, and to be again brought into and maintained in a vertical position upon said seat while descending through the corn, whereby the charger is held and moved vertically through the grain from the bottom of the hopper to receive and discharge the filled charge above the corn in the hopper." (Lines 7-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1874
Creator: Williams, Blasius & Cohn, Morris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers. (open access)

Improvement in Horse-Powers.

Patent for a "means for driving cotton-gins and other light machinery by animal power; and it relates to that form of animal-power apparatus termed the vertical tread-wheel." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 12, 1874
Creator: Powell, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.

Patent for "a mixture of the arseniate of soda and water, or arseniate of soda, dextrine, and water, prepared in certain proportions of the respective ingredients, for the purpose of destroying cotton-worms." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 19, 1874
Creator: Braman, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.

Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date: May 26, 1874
Creator: Royall, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings.

Patent for the improvement of bale-tie fastenings, including illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys (open access)

Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys

Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
Date: July 14, 1874
Creator: Hickley, Walter R & Dibrell, Charles J
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale ties, with description and illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1874
Creator: Cooper, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for a new and improved turn-plow which "consists in several features of improvement, by which the preparation and tillage of soil may be done at less the usual expense, and more than the usual convenience to the farmer." (lines 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1874
Creator: White, Moses F. & Blankenship, Augustus J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for the invention of a new and improved type of adjustable plow, including illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: White, Moses F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for "an Improved Cotton-Bale Tie" (line 5) including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1874
Creator: Krone, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Churns.

Patent for "a new and Improved Churn" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date: August 4, 1874
Creator: Ewing, Nathaniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for a secure cotton-bale tie which is "held securely in place on the hoop or band without depending therefor upon the elasticity of the bale" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
Date: August 18, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for a new and improved type of cotton bale tie utilizing an automatic leverr-clasp buckle fastener.
Date: July 11, 1874
Creator: Lenard, William Rinulda
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.

Patent for an insecticide that kills ants via fumigation. Ingredients include sulfur, charcoal, potassium cyanide, arsenic, and coal tar.
Date: September 22, 1874
Creator: Tottenham, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1874
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for bale ties that are designed "to have a series of holes in each end portion of the hoop, so that two keys can be used; also so that the hoop can be taken up short and again used on the compressed or repressed bale." (Lines 20-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 27, 1874
Creator: Jones, Henry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History