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Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
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 Adding-Machines.
Patent for an improved adding-machine design.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Butt, Dennis, L. R.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties. "This invention relates to that class of ties or hoops for cotton-bales, in which the band of hoop iron is provided with rigid hooks, studs, or buttons, and matching perforations as means for adjustably uniting the ends."
Date:
October 23, 1875
Creator:
Powell, Amos N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Beef-Steak Tenderers.
Patent for improvement in beef-steak tenderer by mounting “two studded or pointed rollers on to a stand; the rollers are arranged one above another, in order to mash the steak by rolling the meat between the rollers.” (Lines [6-9]) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Beer-Refrigerators.
Patent for "an improved refrigerator for cooling lager-beer in the keg, and keep it cool for a long time with a small quantity of ice" (lines 15-18) including illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Bohart, John N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers.
Patent for "an improvement in the bottle-stopper of Westel E. Hawkins, patented under date of August 4, 1874, and numbered 153,769" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1875
Creator:
Shaw, Michael W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for an improvement brick machines that includes "an endless chain of molds at the bottom of the press box [...] in combination with a pressing plate and a cut-off plate" (lines 18-22).
Date:
November 2, 1875
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Molds.
Patent for improvement in brick-molds, with description and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1875
Creator:
Singer, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for "car-brakes that work automatically and without manual intervention as soon as the locomotive is stopped." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for "a means for the automatic application of brakes to the cars of a railway-train; and it consists in a loosely-moving draw-bar attached to the car by means of bolts passing through a central longitudinal slot, and having its sides wrought into two rack-bars, which mesh with pinions upon two windlass-shafts; which arrangement, when the locomotive is "slowed," causes the impact of the cars to drive up the draw-bars and wind up cords upon the windlass-shafts, which communicated with and apply the brakes to the wheels." (Lines 11-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History