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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
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 Gang-Plows.
Patent for an improvement of gang-plows by arranging the plows in rows on to a fame which can be fastened to a wagon, when the wagon is in motion, it causes the plows to work in vertical motion. The height of the plow-frame can be adjusted. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 3, 1860
Creator:
Wilson, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Method of Feathering the Sails of Vanes of Windmills.
Patent for a new windmill design with different sails and connections, including illustrations.
Date:
March 31, 1857
Creator:
Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in cultivators in which the plows can be adjusted by width, height and laterally to regulate the depth and angle of inclination. The plows, which can be operated by a foot device, may be simultaneously thrown from the ground. (Lines 73-76) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 2, 1869
Creator:
Baker, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in stilts.
Patent for an improved stilt involving a stilt-rod and a tube that can be slid. Includes illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1875
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Device.
Patent for a new and improved lubricating device. This design consists of "[t]he combination, with the cross-head of an engine or other reciprocating part of machinery, and the guides or ways on which it works, of a reservoir for the lubricant, a wheel for taking up and applying the same to the friction-surface with which the wheel works in contact, and a spring for supporting the wheel" (para. 10). This design prevents dust and other pollutants from entering the reservoir.
Date:
January 22, 1878
Creator:
Walton, Franklin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Targets for Shooting-Galleries
Patent for a shooting gallery target that releases balls when hit in the center.
Date:
May 29, 1877
Creator:
Hoshall, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Traction-Engines.
Patent for a traction engine "for running on common roads and rails, and to be used for drawing plows, and as a motive power generally" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Walker, Leander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an improvement of the "construction and arrangement of the sulky-plow" (line 17-18).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Payne, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stilts
Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
Date:
March 28, 1876
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters.
Patent for a device which rapidly heats a flat or smoothing iron utilizing a lamp with multiple burners which can be adjusted to raise the temperature of the flat iron to the desired degree.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Wilmot, Byron
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-machine.
Patent for to improve the construction of the shingle-machine known as the "Evarts Rotary Twelve-Block Shingle-Machine".
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Stewart, Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher.
Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
Date:
September 19, 1876
Creator:
Crockett, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Fences"
Date:
November 28, 1876
Creator:
Sullivan, J. L.
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 Force - Pumps.
Patent for new and improved force pump with three cylinders.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Chambers, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-hives
Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Hayden, Noah Dunken & Clapp, Amasa O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "a perfectly-tight fastening - one that will not slip or give, and one that can be easily and quickly unfastened without cutting the band, or in any way injuring the part." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Krieg, Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for improvement in animal-traps, with description and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1876
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Air-Pressure Fluid-Vents.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in air-pressure automatic fluid vents for the use in the discharge of all liquids" (lines 3-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 25, 1877
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys
Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Hickley, Walter R & Dibrell, Charles J
System:
The Portal to Texas History