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Improvement in Wedges for Spitting Rock &c. (open access)

Improvement in Wedges for Spitting Rock &c.

Patent for improvement for a wedge. This design hollows the middle in two areas to make it easier to handle and more economical.
Date: April 24, 1875
Creator: Cosbey, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tire-Tighteners. (open access)

Improvement in Tire-Tighteners.

Patent for a device "for the purpose of tightening or loosening tires on wheels belonging to any kind of vehicles without shrinking or cutting the tires." (Lines 6-9) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Horton, Henry A. R. & Hayes, Amos P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Farm-Fences.

Patent for "a cheap and easily-constructed fence, and one which neither small nor large stock will be able to jump over or pass through." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Rush, Alonzo & Yarbrough, Fisher
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus. (open access)

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
Improvements in Bench-Vises. (open access)

Improvements in Bench-Vises.

Patent for "a new and Improved Sliding-Carriage Vise for Carpenter's Bench" (lines 3-5) includign instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 27, 1875
Creator: Rimbold, Pierre
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in fluting-iron (open access)

Improvement in fluting-iron

Patent for an improvement in fluting iron, involving a hollow smoothing and glossing iron.
Date: February 27, 1875
Creator: Fisher, William F. & Brown, Amos C.
System: The Portal to Texas History