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Improved Mode of Preserving Meat.
Patent for a process that claims to preserve meat. The patent includes only instructions and no illustrations.
Date:
October 6, 1868
Creator:
Perl, M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Oscillating Steam-Engine
Patent for improvements to steam-engines that employ oscillating cylinders for the drive-shaft.
Date:
July 6, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.
Date:
July 6, 1869
Creator:
Cummins, A. G. & Cummins, J. R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Feeder
Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including endless apron, toothed cylinder, and toothed equalizing and distributing bars. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
September 6, 1870
Creator:
Ralston, Joe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
Patent for a device to destroy "winged insects which are destructive to the cotton plants and other vegetation" (lines 19-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1870
Creator:
Byrne, Thomas; Strunk, Diedrich & Schott, J. J.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for rotary engines "driven by steam or other elastic agent, or which may be used for pumping water" (lines 29-32) to obtain "a more direct application of the force applied to drive the engine" (lines 39-40) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1872
Creator:
Richardson, John Dun
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement for a cotton-cultivator with different tools and connections, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Bates, Finis L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Excavators.
Patent for improvement in earth excavators combining a plow, rotating cylinder, and helical plate.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Smith, Amroy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Teeth for Cotton-Gin Saws.
Patent for new useful improvement of the cotton-gin saws that consists of the dress or shape of the teeth, includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Oglesby, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turpentine-Stills.
Patent for improvement in turpentine distillation and purification with bleaching and refinement.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Cooling the Air of Buildings.
Patent for improvements to cooling apparatus for buildings, especially distilleries and breweries. Illustration included.
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Mühl, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.
Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences
Patent for improvement for picket fences composed of zig zag settings with their upper ends brought in line and are connected and supported by wires and posts.
Date:
October 6, 1874
Creator:
McGinty, Robert H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Clements, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "cotton-presses of the upright kind; and the nature thereof consists in combining, with a pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating the follower-screw, and a larger pulley-wheel keyed upon the shaft of a gear-wheel actuating a cog-wheel upon the end of an actuating-shaft, having its bearings at one end in the press-frame, and at the other in a vibrating lever, whereby the said friction-pulley can be brought to bear against the larger pulley, for the purpose of running up the follower, or against the small pulley for the purpose of running it down, by drawing the said level inward or outward." (Lines 15-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Knowles, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Brakes.
Patent for improved railway car-brakes, including illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1875
Creator:
O'Hara, Richard C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Collars.
Patent for a device improving the speed and efficiency of shirt collar fastening, as well as the securing of items such as scarves and ties, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1876
Creator:
Mitchell, Frank G. & Saunders, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties by reducing a series of motions to fasten and unfasten the tie to simply just one single motion. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Lindemann, August W. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Smith, Edgar J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Machines for Washing Photographs.
Patent for an improved machine for washing photographic prints allowing metallic or other rigid plates to be washed in addition to flexible prints.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Noah J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Willson, Hodgen I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History