Resource Type
States
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences.
Patent for new and useful improvements in fences made in sections or panels. It consists in the construction and arrangement of the brackets or supports for the panels.
Date:
January 12, 1875
Creator:
Johnson, Jehu W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for a detachable and re-useable cotton-bale tie, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1875
Creator:
Jones, Henry Bradly
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date:
February 2, 1875
Creator:
Reese, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.
Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Erlenmeyer, Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for a new and improved cotton bale tie utilizing a simple and fast pronged buckle tie which is simple and cheap to manufacture.
Date:
January 30, 1875
Creator:
Jones, Henry Bradley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Cooling Apparatus.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a refrigerator for the purpose of cooling and maintaining a low and dry temperature, for preserving fresh meats and vegetables, and for cooling rooms for any purpose." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1875
Creator:
Hyatt, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Clements, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass.
Patent for a blowing-engine that will make the glass-blowing process less laborious. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1875
Creator:
Chase, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved, cheap and convenient bale-tie. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1875
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Stamps, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties, with description and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1875
Creator:
Chadwick, Edwin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved cotton-bale tie, which is a metallic hoop having an opening and protruding metal lugs on one end through which the other end, having openings that correspond to the lugs, is passed and secured with same.
Date:
July 13, 1875
Creator:
Dawson, Paul R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus.
Patent for "a new and Improved Apparatus for Destroying Ants" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1875
Creator:
Grafton, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying the Cutting Ant.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for destroying the cutting ants in their nests." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Fenner, Ferdinand A. & Power, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improved bale-ties, including illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1875
Creator:
Jones, Henry Bradley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "a new and Improved Bale-Tie" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1875
Creator:
Szabo, Alexander A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Shellers.
Patent for improvement in the design of the corn-sheller, including illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Williams, Solomon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "a new and Improved Plow" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Freeman, Irvan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Apparatus for Cutting Glue.
Patent for a design for a battery-powered wire glue cutter/slicer including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Construction of Jails.
Patent for improvement in construction of jails; in which a system of flues in between layers of a double floor provide ventilation through grates in the walls and upper layer of the floor, without compromising security.
Date:
October 19, 1875
Creator:
Seeber, John A. & Croxton, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Drake, Simeon N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improving a plow device that is curved and has open grooves.
Date:
September 11, 1875
Creator:
Freeman, Irvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History