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Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the gang plow by the plows arrangement and pivoted beams to be adjustable for convenience, including illustration.
Date:
May 1, 1855
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Revolving Fire-Arms.
Patent for discharging buckshot without reloading and with the precision of firing "a single bullet fired from a barrel of proper bore to fit it" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
Date:
March 1, 1859
Creator:
Haynes, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a seed-planter that "may be attached to the leg of the attendant and operated by the natural movement of the attendant while walking along behind the machine" (lines 20-23), including illustration.
Date:
March 1, 1859
Creator:
Benthall, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion
Patent for converting reciprocating into rotary motion by using “two vertically moving racks with a cog wheel on a small shaft between them which gears into the teeth of the racks” (lines 16-19), includes illustration.
Date:
November 1, 1859
Creator:
Harper, C. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and Condensing Steam.
Patent for improvement in apparatus for heating water, other liquids, and condensing steam.
Date:
October 1, 1867
Creator:
Phalen, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Picker and Cleaner.
Patent for an invention that "relates to certain novel improvements on machinery which is designed for rapidly and thoroughly cleaning and picking the interior grades of cotton, and the badly picked and ginned cottons, and for effecting this result without cutting or in any manner damaging the cotton fiber"(lines 19-25). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 1, 1868
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hats
Patent for "a new and improved ventilated hat...which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification" (lines 3-5). including instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 1, 1868
Creator:
Watkins, M. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Bending Stirrups.
Patent for an invention that "is to provide a simple and efficient machine for bending and shaping stirrups for saddles" (lines 10-12). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
February 1, 1870
Creator:
Forest, Demsey
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
Safety-Harness
Patent for a harnesses for horse-carriages designed to enable the instant detachment of the horse. Includes illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1872
Creator:
Ellis, Ira
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant Traps
Patent for the improvement of Ant traps, including to illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
April 1, 1873
Creator:
Ames, Theodore G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination Locks.
Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1873
Creator:
Hall, Phidello W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for "washing-machines known as self-regulating machines; and consists in the arrangement for controlling at will the amount of pressure to be used, in combination with the construction of the feed and washing rollers." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1873
Creator:
Rowland, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in link and pin car-couplings, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1874
Creator:
Moyer, Alexander L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Destroying Cotton Worms.
Patent for a machine to distribute poison to destroy Cotton Worms, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Nicholas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rein-Holders.
Patent for "improvement in a class of rein-holding devices consisting each of a pivoted, vertically-swinging cam or locking-jaw and a frame...for attachment to the dashboard of a carriage or other vehicle." (lines 7-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1874
Creator:
Royse, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-Bolting Machines.
Patent for a shingle-bolting machine.
Date:
December 1, 1874
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for "car-brakes that work automatically and without manual intervention as soon as the locomotive is stopped." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for "a means for the automatic application of brakes to the cars of a railway-train; and it consists in a loosely-moving draw-bar attached to the car by means of bolts passing through a central longitudinal slot, and having its sides wrought into two rack-bars, which mesh with pinions upon two windlass-shafts; which arrangement, when the locomotive is "slowed," causes the impact of the cars to drive up the draw-bars and wind up cords upon the windlass-shafts, which communicated with and apply the brakes to the wheels." (Lines 11-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.
Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grain-Binders
Patent for improved design of grain-binders.
Date:
December 6, 1875
Creator:
Postley, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears.
Patent for running-gear on carriages that "consists mainly in improvements in the connections of the axles with the springs, perch, and other parts" (para. 5), with illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1876
Creator:
Gilmore, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in corn-planters.
Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Meeks, Nathan H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in remedies for constipation, &c.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat constipation and related illnesses which lists the ingredients and dosages.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Coleman, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History