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Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.
Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1857
Creator:
Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mode of Straining Saws by Atmospheric Pressure.
Patent for the improvement of the reciprocating saw by simplifying the arrangement of cylinders, pipes, and exhaust pumps to produce the necessary vacuum, including illustration.
Date:
August 14, 1855
Creator:
Brown, A. & Coffin, Abel, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the seeding-machine by having a lever that allows the driver to operate the hopper-box, harrow, and smoothing-roller at any time, including illustration.
Date:
June 14, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bungs.
Patent for improvement in bungs for beer and other barrels.
Date:
April 14, 1868
Creator:
Stremme, Conrad C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.
Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
Date:
June 14, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting Sad-Irons.
Patent for "a new combination of fluting and sad-iron, of such kind that the upper fluting-roller will serve as handle for the sad-iron, there being thus no loose or separate parts required for the two functions." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1871
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
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 Gun-Locks.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Grisham, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.
Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 14, 1876
Creator:
Cheesman, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dining-Tables.
Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1877
Creator:
Gingras, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Nail-Extractors.
Patent for an improved instrument for extracting nails which "will increase its effectiveness in equal ratio with the resistance offered by the object under operation" (lines 13-16) including instruction and illustrations.
Date:
May 14, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
Date:
January 14, 1873
Creator:
Saunders, David R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences.
Patent for secure, inexpensive picket-fence construction using various sizes of wood pieces and wire. It is meant for situations in which wood is scarce. Illustration included.
Date:
October 14, 1873
Creator:
McGinty, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat "various diseases, more especially those which affect the bowels and digestive organs" (lines 34-36) which lists the ingredients.
Date:
April 14, 1874
Creator:
Roberts, Robert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Dixon, Shadrach
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medicinal Extracts.
Patent for the extract of Dasylirion graminifolium. This describes the method of acquiring the extract as well as illnesses the extra is purported to treat.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Bihl, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for "an improved machine for scraping, chopping, and cultivating corn and cotton" (lines 10-12) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
McCormick, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties
Patent for an improvement in cotton-bale ties which consists of the construction of the loop-plate.
Date:
May 14, 1872
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Caterpillars.
Patent for an insecticide compound that combines Paris green, flour, and lime, which allows the poison, arsenic, to better adhere to cotton plants. Includes instructions.
Date:
January 14, 1873
Creator:
Whisenant, Green F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
Date:
July 5, 1873
Creator:
Müller, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Policemen's Batons.
Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
Date:
October 14, 1873
Creator:
Beery, Simon & McDonald, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps
Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date:
April 14, 1874
Creator:
Flournoy, Rice Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History