Resource Type
States
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 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 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 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 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 Processes of Coloring Enameled Photographs.
Patent for improving the coloring process of enameled photographs by using collodio-gelatine instead of warm gelatine.
Date:
September 7, 1875
Creator:
Williams, William W.
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 Processes for Preparing and Drying Glue.
Patent for a process of drying glue that uses superheated steam and a drying chamber.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
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 Cotton-Harvesters.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-harvesting machine, including illustrations.
Date:
January 26, 1875
Creator:
Miller, La Fayette Kohler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like
Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
Date:
February 16, 1875
Creator:
Trible, Herndon & Davis, Nicholas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rattoon-Cutting Machines.
Patent for a rattoon-cutting machine which is created to "rapidly pull up and cut into short lengths the stubbles and roots of sugar cane (styled "rattoon") which are left upon the ground after the crop has been gathered" (lines 5-9), includes illustrations.
Date:
March 25, 1875
Creator:
Angers, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for a new, improved gang-plow for preparing and cultivating land for planting. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 23, 1875
Creator:
Scheumack, Stephen S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved train car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1875
Creator:
Garrett, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid.
Patent for a process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Shelley, Nathan G.; Bozarth, Stephen P. & Spring, David V.
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
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improvement in car-couplings, including description and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Ramage, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for improved railway car-brakes, including illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1875
Creator:
O'Hara, Richard C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-couplings
Patent for "an automatic car-coupling, that may also be readily coupled with the common pin-and-link and other couplings, and be adjusted without going between the cars, so as to avoid all danger" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 24, 1875
Creator:
Harper, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved automatic car-coupling that may be readily uncoupled from the side and top, and be employed to couple cars of different heights." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1875
Creator:
Ford, Oscar E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1875
Creator:
Harper, Derastus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for "a novel means of hanging the gang of plows beneath the draft-frame, in combination with levers and link-connections, whereby the plows can be adjusted to run at any desired depth, and firmly held after the adjustment." (Lines 18-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
McCormick, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History