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Improvement in Processes of Preserving Meats.
Patent for a method of preserving and canning meat. This describes the inventor's process, as well as his method of reducing air inside the container using hypophosphite of lime.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tonic Remedies.
Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Rucker, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Umbrella-Supporters.
Patent for "a simple and convenient device for supporting and carrying a parasol or umbrella in such a way as to leave the hands free, and which will enable the parasol or umbrella to be tilted or inclined forward or back, or to either side, as may be required" (lines 8-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Arnold, Eliza M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wind-Wheels.
Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rerigerator-Cars.
Patent for "improvements in refrigerator-cars for preserving fresh meats, vegetables, and other perishable articles while transporting them over great distance; and it consists of an ice-receptacle at the top of the car, provided with flat top and carved or inclined bottom." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 18, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sprinklers.
Patent for an improved sprinkler.
Date:
January 18, 1876
Creator:
Melcher, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for the improved design of churns "in which the dasher-shaft is vertical and receives rotation by gearing at the top of the churn" (2nd para.), including illustrations.
Date:
January 25, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grain-Binders
Patent for improved design of grain-binders.
Date:
December 6, 1875
Creator:
Postley, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears.
Patent for running-gear on carriages that "consists mainly in improvements in the connections of the axles with the springs, perch, and other parts" (para. 5), with illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1876
Creator:
Gilmore, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Adjustable Cultivators"
Date:
February 8, 1876
Creator:
Price, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties by using a “divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale, and the ends whereof are joined by a fastening at the one end of said band, arranged to interlock with an one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band for the purpose of binding or holding the bale together.” (Lines [11-17]) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 15, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for improvement of planters.
Date:
February 15, 1876
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-ties.
Patent for "an improvement on the patented bale-tie" (lines 15-16) which includes lugs to "lock" the tie (line 22) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Horton, Jesse R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Instruments for Filling Teeth
Patent for improvement in instruments for filling teeth. "The object of this invention is to furnish an improved mode of filling teeth, by the use of which the filling may be built up, hardened, and polished at once, so that the filling will be as hard as marble when the patient leaves the operator's chair, and so that they can be immediately used for masticating."
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Ludwig, Carl D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for "a certain new and useful improvements in Ironing-Machines"
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W. & Cottingham, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Boxes.
Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Kuehne, Franz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-machine.
Patent for to improve the construction of the shingle-machine known as the "Evarts Rotary Twelve-Block Shingle-Machine".
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Stewart, Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Watchmakers' Lathes.
Patent for the improvement of watchmakers' lathes by way of an adjustable bed.
Date:
March 13, 1876
Creator:
Williams, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.
Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 14, 1876
Creator:
Cheesman, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Jones, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in folding tables.
Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Arnold, James Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.
Date:
March 21, 1876
Creator:
Boyle, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stilts
Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
Date:
March 28, 1876
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Collars.
Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1876
Creator:
Mitchell, Frank G. & Saunders, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History