Resource Type
States
Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
Date:
January 5, 1875
Creator:
Cleary, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, illustration included.
Date:
January 26, 1875
Creator:
Garner, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Key, Minter P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Mills
Patent for an improvement in saw mills, with illustration.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Linder, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "Improvements in Combined Plow and Cultivator" (lines 4-5), including illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1875
Creator:
Roquemore, Peter D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers
Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Fenley, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.
Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Speed-Measures.
Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1875
Creator:
Minton, Stephen F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scale-Beams.
Patent for "the movable weight used on scale-beams; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the weight to slip over the scale-beam, and with a roller, upon which the weight rests or is suspended, in combination with a locking device." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seats for Water-Closets.
Patent for an improved seat for water closets, including illustrations.
Date:
July 13, 1875
Creator:
Fabj, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Reversible Sad-Irons.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Smothers, Thomas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Metallic Window-Blinds.
Patent for "a blind which acts both as a barrier to the progress of flames attacking windows and as a convenient shutter for the common purposes, and is adapted to be adjusted and securely locked in an open or closed position." (Lines 21-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1875
Creator:
Mackrell, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs
Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for washing photographic prints after fixing, for the purpose of removing the double hyposulphite of soda and silver formed in the body of the paper during the process of fixing" (lines 6-11).
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Caylor, J. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Excavators
Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Cole, Thomas Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sad-Iron Heaters.
Patent for improvements to sad-iron heaters, including illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1875
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Irons.
Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Wilson, Joseph Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spectacle-Frames.
Patent for "spectacle-frames in which the bows are turned into a coil near the points where they are connected to the lens-hoops for the purpose of forming spring-joints, instead of the ordinary pivot-joints." (Lines 6-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 30, 1875
Creator:
Stewart, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Spade-Cultivators
Patent for a rotary spade-cultivator that is secured to a frame, which is attached to the rear of a vehicle.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Brodnax, David W., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.
Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Hawley, Abel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Roosevelt, Lillian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Locomotive Earth-Excavators.
Patent for "an earth-excavator, principally for use in making the road-beds for railroads, which shall not only do its work continuously, but which shall be equally efficient in throwing up an embankment or in making a deep cut." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1875
Creator:
Hawley, Abel
System:
The Portal to Texas History