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Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Liscow, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters
Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date:
February 25, 1873
Creator:
Friday, Reuben
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fruit-Pickers.
Patent for an improved fruit-picking tool explaining the construction and usage of the tool, including illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, William V. & Dickerson, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Furnaces for Producing Hydrogen and Treating Ores
Patent for an improvement on heating furnaces, having an external water tank and steam tank and an orifice for the admission of steam from the water chamber.
Date:
March 28, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.
Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History