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Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows.

Patent for improvement in sulky attachments for plows. This invention allows farmers to "apply any kind of plow to the sulky-frame" (1).
Date: August 21, 1876
Creator: Langsford, Samuel P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in folding tables. (open access)

Improvement in folding tables.

Patent for combination folding tables that fold into a convenient traveling-trunk.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Arnold, James Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.

Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date: November 21, 1876
Creator: Yarborough, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.

Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
Date: November 21, 1876
Creator: Flatau, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps. (open access)

Improvement in Gas-Liquefying Pumps.

Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a pump used in ice-machines for liquefying [sic] the gas" (lines 12-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Boyle, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Buckles.

Patent for "an improved method of manufacturing a buckle to secure the different part of harness, saddle, or bridle trimmings, by means of mechanical connections that will obviate the use or necessity or stitches or sewing of any kind, and yet retain the adjacent parts firmly and with a secure engagement." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1876
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Patent for improvements in cotton-presses by using “a combination of a horizontal double reversed screw, an open semi-cylindrical and longitudinal screw-threaded recess, provided with wheels or rollers to sustain and carry the superincumbent weight or pressure.” (Lines [47]-[52], p. 2) Illustration is included.
Date: March 21, 1876
Creator: Jones, Henry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History