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Improvement in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
Date:
September 5, 1871
Creator:
Coreth, Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Draw-Gages.
Patent for improving the manner in which leather straps may be cut and avoid slippage.
Date:
June 25, 1878
Creator:
Tays, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Glass Globes or Reservoirs for Lamps.
Patent for an "invention to prevent the breaking of glass globes used in kerosene lamps as reservoirs for the burning fluid; and this invention consists in the application around the reservoir of a rubber ring let into a groove, but projecting sufficiently to receive the concussion in case the lamp is overthrown." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Otto, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.
Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
Date:
August 22, 1871
Creator:
Mather, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History