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Cotton - Bale Ties
Patent for tying the ends of cotton bale wires or bands.
Date:
September 22, 1874
Creator:
Szabo, Alexander A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for the improvement of windmills, including illustrations.
Date:
September 29, 1874
Creator:
Symthe, Peyton.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
Date:
September 5, 1871
Creator:
Coreth, Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
Patent for the improvement of wheel-cultivators, combining a plow and cultivator. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
September 19, 1871
Creator:
Viars, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1875
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E. & Shay, Samuel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Thrashing-Machines.
Patent for "new and useful improvements on machinery for thrashing various kinds of grain, whereby the work is performed in a very rapid and perfect manner, without impairing the straw." (lines 28-32) Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date:
September 13, 1870
Creator:
Fuos, Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Trusses.
Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Baker, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Flow, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for improving the washing machine by being operated by a spring-motor.
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Cummings, James K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Payne, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in digging or cultivation machines primarily adapted to the cultivation of cotton. Includes parts that can be added or removed from the machine, thereby reducing the number of machines needed for farm work. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 10, 1872
Creator:
Forsgard, Gustave A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines
Patent for "... an improved washing-machine which shall be simple in construction, convenient in use, easily operated, and effective in operation." (lines 12-15)
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Spray-Nozzles
Patent for an improvement on spray nozzles for use with force pumps. These force pumps are used for spraying insecticide on cotton to protect the crop from cotton-worms and other insects.
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Yeager, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Stone.
Patent for improvement in the manufacture of Hydraulic Stone to furnish and improved artificial stone for use in different purposes that can resist weather changes without being affected.
Date:
September 16, 1879
Creator:
Dimelow, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Nette, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boilers.
Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Wash-Boilers" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1875
Creator:
Mackli, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Sad-Iron Heaters.
Patent for improvements to sad-iron heaters, including illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1875
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
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 Neck-Yokes.
Patent for an improvement on neck-yokes that have a "swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole" (line 18-19).
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Hannig, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History