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Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Worms in Cotton-Plants.
Patent for using a solution of water and arsenic for killing cotton pests.
Date:
January 2, 1871
Creator:
Mitchell, Thomas W. & Briscoe, Robert P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Sets.
Patent for a simply constructed device for setting the teeth of saws. Includes illustrations and descriptions of its parts and usage.
Date:
January 3, 1871
Creator:
Harris, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers
Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date:
January 3, 1871
Creator:
Booton, Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inprovement in Sulky-Cultivators.
Patent for an improved sulky cultivator which lists description on how to build the cultivator.
Date:
January 10, 1871
Creator:
Jordan, Hugh P
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Tongs
Patent for a part to prevent the legs of fire-tongs from lapping or crossing each other.
Date:
January 17, 1871
Creator:
George, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pen-Holders.
Patent for new improvements on the design of the pen-holder, including illustrations.
Date:
January 24, 1871
Creator:
George, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in washing machines.
Date:
January 31, 1871
Creator:
Nave, Andrew Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
Date:
February 7, 1871
Creator:
Lister, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing Machines.
Patent for the improvement of washing machine mechanisms.
Date:
February 14, 1871
Creator:
Jones, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rectifying High-Wines.
Patent for an improved mode of rectifying high wines using a new apparatus.
Date:
March 21, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Furnaces for Producing Hydrogen and Treating Ores
Patent for an improvement on heating furnaces, having an external water tank and steam tank and an orifice for the admission of steam from the water chamber.
Date:
March 28, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows.
Patent for an improvement upon subsoil plows, using a series of spades arranged upon the same pulleyed rotary shaft, combined with furrow-opening plows.
Date:
March 28, 1871
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tenoning-Machines
Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
Date:
April 18, 1871
Creator:
Bourland, Melton S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills
Patent for an improvement in grinding-mills, combining the operative mechanism with spindles - in which the both the grinding stones obtain relative surface speeds only half the actual speed of the stones.
Date:
May 9, 1871
Creator:
Hensley, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for improvements in valves used in rotary engines.
Date:
May 9, 1871
Creator:
Hughes, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
Date:
May 23, 1871
Creator:
Walker, Leander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
Date:
May 23, 1871
Creator:
Raiford, Philip H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels.
Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 6, 1871
Creator:
Tuder, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Axles.
Patent for improvements to carriage axles which include the addition of a sleeve, bearing, and linch-pin device.
Date:
June 13, 1871
Creator:
Wagner, Ernest Friedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Elevators.
Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 13, 1871
Creator:
Bishop, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children
Patent for an improvement in machines for taking Photographs of small children.
Date:
July 4, 1871
Creator:
Sloan, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.
Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
Date:
July 4, 1871
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
Date:
August 1, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bedsteads.
Patent for the improvement of bedsteads in order to make them more convenient and durable.
Date:
August 8, 1871
Creator:
Baldwin, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History