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Improvement in Bale-Tie Clamps.
Patent for an instrument that tightens the ties used for bales of cotton.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Leoneard, Thomas Dunlap
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Lighters.
Patent for a device which allows the lighting of "fires, lights, blasts, &c., by a person located some distance from the object to be ignited." (lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Craig, Samuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Sets
Patent for an improvement in a device which sets the teeth of a saw, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Holton, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improving on a plowing device. This apparatus has four independent and adjustable shovels attached together to work to cultivate a field.
Date:
September 6, 1873
Creator:
Cavett, Richard S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Fences.
Patent for "a simple, cheap, and portable fence...which can be readily folded up for transportation from place to place." (Lines 11-13) Illustration included.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Taylor, Byron L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for improving cotton bale ties with buckle-tie plate and zinc-galvanized iron wire.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Quarles, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for an "improvement in devices for destroying ants and burrowing animals of all kinds." (lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Melcher, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-picking machines including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Trenks, Frederick F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Billiard-Tables.
Patent for a design for a billiard table that can also be used as a Jenny-Lind table. Illustration included.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Waldie, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pruning Implements.
Patent for "an improved implement for trimming hedges and for cutting and laying down hedges" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Booker, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Presses
Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Leoneard, Thomas Dunlap
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-presses adapted for pressing cotton into bales including instructions and illustration.
Date:
November 18, 1879
Creator:
Langill, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History