Improvement in Tool-Holders for Grinding (open access)

Improvement in Tool-Holders for Grinding

New and valuable Improvement in Tool-Holders, which are designed for holding tools in contact with the periphery of a grindstone.
Date: May 2, 1876
Creator: Fisher, Charles N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sawing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Sawing-Machines.

Patent for a new and valuable sawing-machine is combined and, "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the vibrating beam, vertically-sliding block, and flanged support," (pg. 3) e.g...including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1873
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills. (open access)

Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.

Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1879
Creator: Fisher, Charles N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills. (open access)

Improvement in Grinding-Mills.

Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
Date: November 15, 1870
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.

Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Goodin, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Patent for an improvement brick machines that includes "an endless chain of molds at the bottom of the press box [...] in combination with a pressing plate and a cut-off plate" (lines 18-22).
Date: November 2, 1875
Creator: Fisher, Charles N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brooms. (open access)

Improvement in Brooms.

Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date: August 15, 1871
Creator: Anderson, Edward Americus
System: The Portal to Texas History