Resource Type
States
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 Seed-Planters.
Patent for improvement of planters.
Date:
February 15, 1876
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Fences.
Patent for improvement in fences, with description and illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Ingalls, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.
Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Harper, Elijah S., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Liscow, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Painter's Scaffold-chairs.
Patent for use of house-painters and others an improved scaffold-chair that may be elevated and lowered at pleasure by the person sitting on the scaffold.
Date:
May 16, 1876
Creator:
Crockett, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fence-Building Machines.
Patent for "a portable machine comprising a pile-driving apparatus, with a portable attachment for making the holes and driving in the posts; also, a boring attachment for deep holes, and also wire-drums for carrying and delivering wires for the wire fence or telegraph wires." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1876
Creator:
Tally, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Lindemann, August W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Double-Bitted Drills.
Patent for "an easy mode of straightening wells while drilling them through rock or earth, and also for enlarging the same into a cistern when it is desired to keep on hand a large supply of water." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1876
Creator:
Yarbrough, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus
Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Martin, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Detaching Horses
Patent for improvements for a device used to detach a horse or horses from a vehicle. Included illustration shows 3 elevation views of the detacher.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Craig, John Kerr
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in liquid-measuring tanks.
Patent for an airtight and fireproof measuring tank for lamp oils, usable in both daytime and nighttime. Includes illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1876
Creator:
Williams, Blasius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for an improvement in ironing-machine which can iron clothes quicker and better with very little physical labor. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Nott, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher.
Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Crockett, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Single-Trees
Patent for "a new and Improved Single-Tree and Breast Yoke." (lines 3-4) Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
October 3, 1876
Creator:
Flatau, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of ditching-machines by way of new construction techniques.
Date:
May 5, 1876
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Lifting-Jacks.
Patent for improvement in lifting jack. This improvement is the vertical bar is notched to prevent slipping when lifting an item.
Date:
August 8, 1876
Creator:
Scott, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History