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Improvement in Toy Trumpets.
Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an improved stalk-puller for use in pulling cotton-stalks in preparing the land for another crop.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Brown, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 land-drag and clod-crusher.
Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Crockett, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.
Reissued patent for a chemical process to create a plastic material made of bitumen, clay, and mineral and/or fossil substances.
Date:
September 26, 1876
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.
Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Bunker, Thaddeus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Mathes, William McConnell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Wyckoff, Cornerius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-hives
Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Hayden, Noah Dunken & Clapp, Amasa O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses
Patent for a new and improved Cotton-Press. The invention relates to the press on which a Patent (No. 150,573) was granted May 5, 1874, to William B. Hollowell. It consists of a duplicate master-wheel on the drum for working the follower; also an improved contrivance for connecting the pitman to the lever and to its pivot, whereby the machine is rendered more efficient and may be lighter for a given strength.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Horn, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History