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Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Cotton-Cultivators.
Patent for improvements in cotton-plant cultivators.
Date:
July 20, 1878
Creator:
Harvey, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Eyeglasses.
Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
Date:
July 9, 1878
Creator:
Hawkes, Albert K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guards for Sheep-Shears.
Patent for "an improved attachment that serves both as a guide and guard for preventing the cutting of the sheep in shearing, and by which even unskilled workmen can use the shears and cut the wool close to the skin without hurting the sheep, with by the point or edge of the blades." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for improvement in the means by which cotton plants are watered, protected from pesticides and fires. It provides for a mechanism by which poison and water may be more easily distributed to the plants.
Date:
July 30, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grain-Driers.
Patent for an improved grain-drier with design specifications and a description of the object's applications and usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 18, 1878
Creator:
Henesee, Richard Tiernan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cooling Attachements in Barrels.
Patent for improved cooling attachements for larger-beer barrels.
Date:
October 22, 1878
Creator:
Hoerr, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improvement upon train car coupling. Invention includes use of draw-heads, drop-gates, etc.
Date:
April 2, 1878
Creator:
Hogan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-planter.
Patent for a machine that can plant any kind or size of seed or grain at any desired distance apart.
Date:
December 3, 1878
Creator:
Hoshall, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement to "class of bale-ties in which the bands are secured by means of a fastening or key which passes through slots in the ends of the band." (lines 13-16)
Date:
April 2, 1878
Creator:
Howard, William Henry; Broussard, Camille E. & Hutchins, Rush M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Padlocks.
Patent for improvements to Padlocks which can be opened with a key in conjunction with maneuvering the tumblers or locking-bolt.
Date:
August 14, 1878
Creator:
Jacobs, Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for the improvement of plows, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Johnson, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for improvements the process of molding moist clay into brick.
Date:
July 23, 1878
Creator:
Kennedy, Lewis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Bale-Ties.
This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.
Date:
April 16, 1878
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators
Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."
Date:
July 27, 1878
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Tree Forks.
Patent for an "improved saddle-tree fork, which shall be simple in construction, light, and durable, and which may be readily adjusted as a Texas saddle-tree or a muley saddle-tree"( line 6 )includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 14, 1878
Creator:
Lane, Calvin M. & Franklin, Mathew C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale-tie that eliminates the need for buckles. This design achieves this with a hook and a U-shaped piece of iron to be riveted to the band, thus fastening the bale without buckles.
Date:
January 29, 1878
Creator:
Lenard, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Fences.
Patent for a new and improved fence, the materials for which would could be easily obtained by farmers and the results would be strong enough to contain livestock.
Date:
August 10, 1878
Creator:
Lenox, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Bagasse-Furnaces.
Patent for improvements in Bagasse Burners or Furnaces.
Date:
April 17, 1878
Creator:
Littlejohn, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Drawers.
Patent for an improved water drawer, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
June 11, 1878
Creator:
McC. Mathes, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Gates.
Patent for "automatically operating slide-gates which are operated by pressure on treadles, and are suitable for use either as farm-gates or railroad-gates." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
McCaffrey, James M. & Larkin, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fruit-Pickers.
Patent for an improved fruit-picking tool explaining the construction and usage of the tool, including illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, William V. & Dickerson, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang and Sulky Plows.
Patent for improvements in gang and sulky plows which "consists in an axle having the double crank of the transporting-wheel journaled upon the outer bend of said crank, working between the side beams of the plow-frame, and the connecting-rods pivoted, respectively, to the said bars and to the end and inner bend of said crank" (lines 17-23). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1878
Creator:
McCormick, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History