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Improvement in Quilting-Frames (open access)

Improvement in Quilting-Frames

Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date: January 16, 1877
Creator: Davis, Henry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Stalk Cutters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Stalk Cutters.

Patent for an improvement to cotton-stalk cutters by way of an improved framework.
Date: August 9, 1874
Creator: Johnston, George; Cairns, John & Johnston, Michael K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Reciprocating Churns.

Patent for an invention that, "relates to certain improvements in motive power for churns, its object being to provide a compact system of automatically-operating gearing, that may be readily attached to the top of an ordinay churn" (lines 7-11). Illustration included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: Miller, Noah J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Blow-Guns and Arrows. (open access)

Improvement in Blow-Guns and Arrows.

Patent for an improved design of the blow-gun and arrows consisting of the broader boar for the blow gun, an arrow fastening cord, and arrow-shafts with grooves. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1877
Creator: White, Luther C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Patent for "an improved gang-plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted to cause the plows to take or leave land, and which will enable the wheels to be adjusted closer to or farther from the plows, as may be desired." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Cummins, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns (open access)

Improvement in Reciprocating Churns

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1877
Creator: Welch, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles (open access)

Improvement in Buckles

Patent for a new and improved buckle for use with hame-straps, breech-straps, etc. The patent contains an explanation of the buckle and various illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Melton, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid (open access)

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid

Patent for a new and useful process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and the patent includes a list of solvents suitable for use in the process.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bridle Attachments. (open access)

Improvement in Bridle Attachments.

Patent for "a bridle of novel construction for training and taming horses; and it consists in the combination of brace and guide-reins, neck and crupper straps, sureingle, and collar." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 10, 1877
Creator: Cummings, Seton S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters (open access)

Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters

Patent for improvements in rail road-car breaks, starters, and checkers. "The nature of the invention consists in certain constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts" (lines 19-21).
Date: April 24, 1877
Creator: Marean, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings

Patent for car coupling device that attaches cars automatically when moved together while also detaching if one or more cars come off the tracks.
Date: May 22, 1877
Creator: Dobbs, Charles & Robinson, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Billiard-Cushions. (open access)

Improvement in Billiard-Cushions.

Patent for improvement in billiard-cushions. Patent for removable billiard table cushion.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Mansur, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 17, 1877
Creator: Crump, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
Date: July 24, 1877
Creator: McCarty, Ezra B. & Heagerty, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms. (open access)

Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date: July 31, 1877
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.

Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a cotton-picking machine" (lines 15-16) using wire brushes on rods and chains, including illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1877
Creator: Graves, Clinton E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car Brake and Starter. (open access)

Improvement in Car Brake and Starter.

Patent for improvements in car brakes "of novel and simple construction" (lines 24-25).
Date: August 21, 1877
Creator: Marean, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches. (open access)

Improvement in Railroad-Switches.

Patent for a railway switch for wooden or iron railway-tracks.
Date: September 4, 1877
Creator: Harding, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-Hives (open access)

Improvement in Bee-Hives

Patent for bee-hives to more easily retrieve honey from the combs, which also gives extremely specific instructions on four different types of bee-hives.
Date: July 28, 1877
Creator: Van Horn, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum. (open access)

Improvement in Preparations of Chewing-Gum.

The production of chewing-gum will become much simpler with the improved patent of chewing-gum.
Date: June 23, 1877
Creator: Cotter, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pump-Buckets (open access)

Improvement in Pump-Buckets

Patent for new and improved pump-buckets, which are more cheaper and much more durable. The much improved pump-buckets fasten together with chains as well as metal plates.
Date: October 9, 1877
Creator: William, Mayfield D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Augers. (open access)

Earth-Augers.

Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).
Date: October 30, 1877
Creator: Fields, Daniel G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Seed and Corn Planters

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton seed and corn planters which lists the design specifications.
Date: November 6, 1877
Creator: Palmero, Joseph Rafael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine. (open access)

Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine.

Patent for a new and improved band-cutting and feeding attachment for thrashing machines. This design receives grain bundles "upon an endless traveling apron provided with teeth or claws, and by it conveyed under rotary cutters, which sever the bands, the grain being then scattered or spread out by a vibrating rake into a thin sheet as it passes to the toothed cylinder. The invention relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of parts" (paras. 3-4).
Date: November 27, 1877
Creator: O'Neall, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History