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Car Ventilation.
Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1879
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binder for Paper Tablets.
Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1879
Creator:
Murray, Bredett C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Transmitting Power.
Patent for a new invention which uses a combination of radiation and levers in order more efficiently transmit power. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 8, 1870
Creator:
Williams, Blasius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Bending Stirrups.
Patent for an invention that "is to provide a simple and efficient machine for bending and shaping stirrups for saddles" (lines 10-12). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
February 1, 1870
Creator:
Forest, Demsey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compound Engines.
Patent for "a series of engines for working the steam over by exhausting it from the first into the second, and so on, for utilizing the pressure lost when steam is exhausted from a single engine into the air..." (lines 7-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 16, 1875
Creator:
Bell, Jackson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Binding Grain
Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date:
February 13, 1875
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for rotary engines "driven by steam or other elastic agent, or which may be used for pumping water" (lines 29-32) to obtain "a more direct application of the force applied to drive the engine" (lines 39-40) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1872
Creator:
Richardson, John Dun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipedes
Patent for the improvement of Velocipedes. The improvement consists of a new and novel combination and arrangement of propelling power, due to the weight of the body, which may be aided by the muscular force thereof and guiding apparatus.
Date:
February 13, 1872
Creator:
Maltby, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Wiring Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new improvement in apparatus for wiring picket-fences to hold the wires tight, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Parks, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Set.
Patent for an invention "which can be used for setting the teeth of all kinds of saws by hand, and without requiring and intricate machinery" (lines 15-18). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
February 15, 1870
Creator:
Harris, H. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an invention of a new and improved sulky-plow, "which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plow to take or leave land, and to work at any desired depth in the ground, which will enable the plow to be readily raised from the ground" (lines 13-17). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Riddle, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vapor-Burners.
Patent for, "an improved construction and arrangement of vapor-burner, by which the same is readily lighted, adjusted to a larger or smaller flame, or extinguished" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Sawyer, Frederick A.
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 Vibrating Propellers
Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Macowitzky, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Key, Minter P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Mills
Patent for an improvement in saw mills, with illustration.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Linder, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears.
Patent for running-gear on carriages that "consists mainly in improvements in the connections of the axles with the springs, perch, and other parts" (para. 5), with illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1876
Creator:
Gilmore, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Adjustable Cultivators"
Date:
February 8, 1876
Creator:
Price, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for improvement of planters.
Date:
February 15, 1876
Creator:
Albertson, Ichabod H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for "a certain new and useful improvements in Ironing-Machines"
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W. & Cottingham, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Instruments for Filling Teeth
Patent for improvement in instruments for filling teeth. "The object of this invention is to furnish an improved mode of filling teeth, by the use of which the filling may be built up, hardened, and polished at once, so that the filling will be as hard as marble when the patient leaves the operator's chair, and so that they can be immediately used for masticating."
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Ludwig, Carl D.
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 Rotary Churns.
Patent for an improvement of the churn that is, "within a square wooden box, of a rotating dasher or paddle, and the mechanism for driving the same, that various parts being constructed, arranged, and operated" (lines 20-24). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Dean, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a new and improved seed-planter. Illustration included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History