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Improvement in Car Brake and Starter.
Patent for improvements in car brakes "of novel and simple construction" (lines 24-25).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Marean, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Garden-Pumps.
Patent for improvements in garden-pumps: "a garden-pump with attachments for sprinkling liquid poison" (lines 13-15).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Vogelsang, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hopples.
Patent for improvement in hopples: "consists of a metallic band composed of three equal parts, two of which are hinged to a third, and provided with a fastening, by means of which it may be secured to the leg of the animal" (lines 14-19).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Melton, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.
Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Parry, Morgan L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Soldering-Irons
Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
Date:
March 21, 1877
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History