Improvement in Ironing Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Patent for an improvement in ironing-machine which can iron clothes quicker and better with very little physical labor. Illustration is included.
Date: September 12, 1876
Creator: Nott, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Shuttles (open access)

Improvement in Sewing-Machine Shuttles

Patent for an improved sewing-machine shuttle, which shuffles the bobbins back and forth among one another. This makes sewing faster for easier for any person who sews.
Date: June 30, 1877
Creator: Nott, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing-Machines.

Patent for an ironing machine that includes a "movable table operated by a crank" (lines 16-17). Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1873
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
System: The Portal to Texas History