Resource Type
Degree Department
Country
States
Decade
Month
Day
Results:
1 - 24 of
656
next
Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for cutting grain in gavels at regular intervals along the track of the machine, including illustration.
Date:
April 21, 1857
Creator:
Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and Improved Cultivator" (lines 3-4) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for an improved seed-planter "which will deposit the seeds in the requisite quantities and proper distances apart, and which will cover and mark the bills, so that a plowman will not be at a loss where to start at the commencement of a new row, and after having passed around tree-stumps or other obstructions, as he can always see the marks on the preceding rows" (lines 16-23) with illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1869
Creator:
Woods, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1871
Creator:
Sivley, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rectifying High-Wines.
Patent for an improved mode of rectifying high wines using a new apparatus.
Date:
March 21, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dough Kneaders and Cutters.
Patent for new U-shaped dough kneader and cutter, with illustrations
Date:
September 21, 1874
Creator:
Mӧckli, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Flow, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Chopper
Patent for an improvement in corn and cotton stalk-choppers, allowing for the stalks to be turned under by the plow and prevent their interference with the machine.
Date:
May 21, 1872
Creator:
Richards, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of washing machines, using two washboards. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1872
Creator:
Harper, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for a new improvement to washing machines.
Date:
July 21, 1874
Creator:
Mitchell, Daniel Chasteen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ventilators.
Patent for improvement in ventilators which combines a bell-mouthed vane with white induction and black eduction pipes for the purpose of introducing fresh air and eliminating foul air from an enclosed area.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Moyer, Alexander L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Rotary Dredgers.
Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Hawley, Abel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Roosevelt, Lillian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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 Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.
Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Parry, Morgan L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Soldering-Irons
Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
Date:
March 21, 1877
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Reissue patent for an ironing machine that "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontally-moving iron and horizontally-reciprocating table..." (para. 2).
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters
Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, which allows for adjusting to plant less or more seeds as desired.
Date:
May 21, 1872
Creator:
Richards, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Nails.
Patent for a nail with hexagonal form with two sides nearly flat and beveled edges.
Date:
January 21, 1873
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for an improvement in the design of corn and cotton cultivators, including illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1873
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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