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Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Talley, Reuben Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Corn-Shellers.
Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Creekmore, Hiram C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles.
Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date:
June 10, 1873
Creator:
Hamil, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments
Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date:
February 11, 1873
Creator:
Hart, Richard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Willson, Hodgen I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears for Wagons
Patent for an improvement on running-gears for wagons.
Date:
September 9, 1879
Creator:
Gibson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels.
Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 6, 1871
Creator:
Tuder, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Ford, Isaac M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Urban, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a new mechanism by which corn planters may be converted into a machine for planting cotton.
Date:
July 16, 1878
Creator:
Clary, Stephen S. & Clary, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in corn-planters.
Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Meeks, Nathan H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reversible Axle-Skeins.
Patent for improvements in reversible axle skeins: "My invention consists of cast mental axle skeins fitted on the axles, whether of wood or iron, so that they can be turned from time to time, as they wear away, to remove the worn place from the wearing position and bring a part not worn thereto." (lines 5-10).
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Smith, Andrew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Augers.
Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).
Date:
October 30, 1877
Creator:
Fields, Daniel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History