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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 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
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 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 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 Compounds for Fish-Baits.
Patent for a new compound to be used as fish bait, consisting of oil of anise, asafetida, cardamom-seed, golden, yellow, or black root, and buzzard root. Includes instructions.
Date:
January 21, 1873
Creator:
Goodman, Samuel A., Jr.
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 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 Portable Fences.
Patent for portable fencing with sections that can be connected and set up in a particular area, or removed and put elsewhere at will.
Date:
April 21, 1874
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale ties, with description and illustrations.
Date:
July 21, 1874
Creator:
Cooper, William
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 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
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 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
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 Gang-Plows.
Patent for "a novel means of hanging the gang of plows beneath the draft-frame, in combination with levers and link-connections, whereby the plows can be adjusted to run at any desired depth, and firmly held after the adjustment." (Lines 18-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
McCormick, John R.
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 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 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
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