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Breech-Loading Fire-Arm
Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Hart, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination-Hoes.
Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Nelson, David A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
Date:
September 4, 1877
Creator:
Harding, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History