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Improvement in Twine-Holders (open access)

Improvement in Twine-Holders

Patent for improvement in twine-holders to help hold twine, cloth and wrapping to counters for ease of cutting, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Turner, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flower-Baskets (open access)

Improvement in Flower-Baskets

Patent for an improvement in flower-baskets to be hung in residences without making a mess, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Tennyson, Fannie C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Ironing And Fluting Machines. (open access)

Improvement In Ironing And Fluting Machines.

Patent for improvements to Ironing and Fluting Machines.
Date: June 13, 1878
Creator: Bailey, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for the improvement of plows, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Johnson, Felix
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroyers

Patent for an improvement of insect-destroyers in the form of spraying poisonous liquid forced over plants, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Ruhmann, Julius Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Patent for improvement in cotton bale-ties, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Roeber, Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Gates (open access)

Improvement in Railroad-Gates

Patent for a new and improved Railroad-Fence Gate that prevents cattle from escaping from farm areas, including illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1879
Creator: Hahn, Henry & Gaston, Anderson Lewers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues

Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
Date: August 13, 1872
Creator: Gaines, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c. (open access)

Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.

Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids.
Date: May 5, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Sheet and Tent (open access)

Improvement in Wagon-Sheet and Tent

Patent for an improvement in wagon sheet coverings / tent. The improvement is in the sides of the wagon sheet can be extended by loosening straps to fall the length to the ground and be staked to the earth. This gives a tent to sleep under after a day of traveling.
Date: August 13, 1871
Creator: Fitzgerald, M. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Binding Grain (open access)

Machine for Binding Grain

Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date: February 13, 1875
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms. (open access)

Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.

Patent for improvement in cotton-lint rooms. These rooms are used with gins that seperate the seeds from the cotton.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Crenshaw, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seats for Water-Closets. (open access)

Improvement in Seats for Water-Closets.

Patent for an improved seat for water closets, including illustrations.
Date: July 13, 1875
Creator: Fabj, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics (open access)

Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics

Patent for an improved device to measure textiles and other similar fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1877
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for "revolving-cylinder seed-planters; and its object is to furnish a strong and durable implement adapted to plant with precision various kinds of seed, and the wheels of which are not liable to become clogged with earth." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1877
Creator: Burris, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Journal Boxes. (open access)

Improvement in Journal Boxes.

Patent for axel shaft oil lubrication system that acts as a reservoir and saves the oil lubrication materials to be used repeatedly without waste.
Date: April 3, 1873
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sinking Pneumatic Piles or Caissons. (open access)

Improvement in Sinking Pneumatic Piles or Caissons.

Patent for certain improvements in sinking and securing of pneumatic piles or caissons, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Sickels, Frederick E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Adjustable Fire-Fenders, Grates, and Andirons. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Adjustable Fire-Fenders, Grates, and Andirons.

Patent for improvement in fire-fender and grate with separable andirons that is adjustable to different fireplaces, and which can be adapted for wood or coal.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Working Glass.

Patent for a blowing-engine that will make the glass-blowing process less laborious. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1875
Creator: Chase, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an improved, cheap and convenient bale-tie. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1875
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an improved cotton-bale tie, which is a metallic hoop having an opening and protruding metal lugs on one end through which the other end, having openings that correspond to the lugs, is passed and secured with same.
Date: July 13, 1875
Creator: Dawson, Paul R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers. (open access)

Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers.

Patent for improvement in receptacle for oils, molasses, or thick liquid that permit liquid to be surrounded by steam or water and changeable temperature.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
Date: January 13, 1874
Creator: Jackson, Thomas Rivers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Planters.

Patent for a cotton-planting machine which "consists in a distributing-drum, having seed-openings through it, and inclined distributing-agitators inside of it, said drum being applied to turn in a frame which is pivoted to the beam of a shovel-plow, whereby the roller will accommodate itself to inequalities of surface passed over, and uniformly discharge the seed in the drill-rows, after which a drag or coverer will cover up the seed." (Lines 18-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 13, 1874
Creator: Remsen, Byron & Russell, John E. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History