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Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Lint-Room and Cotton-Presses.

Patent for the improvement of lint-rooms and cotton presses, including a description and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1870
Creator: Albertson, Ichabod H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Post-Hole Diggers (open access)

Improvement in Post-Hole Diggers

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in Post-Hole Diggers.
Date: November 20, 1877
Creator: Armstrong, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent to improve the construction of the mold-board of the plow described in Letters Patent No. 163,352, "to make it more effective in preventing the black lands of Texas and other sticky and waxy soils from adhering to it, and to enable a proper furrow to be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 20, 1876
Creator: Bell, Francis R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Damping-Rollers. (open access)

Improvement in Damping-Rollers.

Patent for an improvement of copying-roller through "moistening the leaves of letter-books to take impressions" (lines 15-17), with illustration.
Date: August 20, 1878
Creator: Brown, John Anderson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spurs. (open access)

Improvement in Spurs.

Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1879
Creator: Brown, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Walking-Planters (open access)

Improvement in Walking-Planters

Patent for improvements of a new walking planter where the design is much improved to that of the cotton planters. The new improvements of the walking planter are much safer because of the hopper that is in the new and improved equipment, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1877
Creator: Brown, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1874
Creator: Brown, Maurice T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Hats (open access)

Improvement in Adjustable Hats

Patent for an improvement to adjustable hatband which includes directions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
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 Rotary Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Churns.

Patent for an improvement of the churn that is, "within a square wooden box, of a rotating dasher or paddle, and the mechanism for driving the same, that various parts being constructed, arranged, and operated" (lines 20-24). Illustrations included.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Dean, Charles C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Vine-Rakes (open access)

Improvements In Vine-Rakes

Patent for new and improved Vine-Rakes to use in everyday farming. Uses includes pulling fines from crops and preparing the ground for plowing or digging before planting crops.
Date: April 20, 1875
Creator: Dunn, Joseph W
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machines. (open access)

Washing-Machines.

Patent for an improvement in washing machines. The shaping and components are meticulously detailed and indicate they play a part in the said improvement.
Date: January 20, 1874
Creator: Eberhardt, T. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Cotton-Cultivators. (open access)

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 Cotton-Worm Destroyers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.

Patent for "a new machine for removing the destructive cotton-worms from the cotton-plants without injury to the plants, and for destroying the worms," which "consists in the arrangement of a movable frame, which is by animals drawn over the fields to straddle the rows of cotton, and which is provided with brushes for sweeping the worms from the plants, and with jointed bottom pieces or slides, which crush them on the ground." (Lines 15-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Helm, Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills (open access)

Improvement in Windmills

Patent for the improvement of wind mills, that includes a detailed description as well as labeled figure drawings.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined. (open access)

Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined.

Patent for an invention "to combine a jack-screw or lifting-jack with a clamp, so that they may be interchangeably used." (Lines 19-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1873
Creator: Jackson, Thomas R.; Jackson, Asberry C. & Watson, Claudius S.
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 process to "reduce asphaltum to a liquid, and hold the same in a semi-fluid condition without heat, and which constitutes an entirely new article of commerce, and furnishes to the trade an article of asphaltum prepared and ready for use, without the labor, expense, and delay of melting, for paving and roofing purposes, and one most admirably adapted for use by manufacturers of varnish and japan." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1875
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
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 Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to Liquid. (open access)

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to Liquid.

Patent for improved “process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and holding the same in a fluid condition without heat or the use of dead-oils” (lines 31-34).
Date: April 20, 1875
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
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 Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for a new and improved seed-planter. Illustration included.
Date: February 20, 1877
Creator: Miller, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Journal Coolers (open access)

Improvement in Car-Journal Coolers

Patent for improvement of car-journal coolers on railroad-vehicles, with illustration.
Date: August 20, 1878
Creator: Morris, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms. (open access)

Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

Patent for improved maneuvering and loading of firearms while riding horseback.
Date: July 20, 1878
Creator: Morrison, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Cleaning Attachments for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Improvement in Saw-Cleaning Attachments for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for a "new and useful Saw-Cleaning Attachment for Cotton-Gins" (lines 3-4) including illustrations.
Date: May 20, 1879
Creator: Mulkey, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History