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Improvement in Wardrobe-Beadsteads.
Patent for a new and improved office-furniture that combines a desk, bookshelf, folding bed, hat-rack, and wash-basin, including descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Sutcliffe, Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for an improvement to washing machines, in which "the novelty consists in allowing both cylinder and blades to be rotated or oscillated independently of each other." (Lines 17-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 5, 1875
Creator:
Starr, Henry D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for improvement in cotton-stalk pullers with beveled edges for firmer hold on the stalks.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Heacock, Cadwallader
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tonic Remedies.
Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Rucker, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Umbrella-Supporters.
Patent for "a simple and convenient device for supporting and carrying a parasol or umbrella in such a way as to leave the hands free, and which will enable the parasol or umbrella to be tilted or inclined forward or back, or to either side, as may be required" (lines 8-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Arnold, Eliza M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sprinklers.
Patent for an improved sprinkler.
Date:
January 18, 1876
Creator:
Melcher, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tug Attachments for Harness.
Patent for improving the tug-harness attachments on a horse harness to better lock straps in place.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Brodnax, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Locomotive Smoke - Stacks.
Patent for new and useful improvement in locomotive smoke stacks, "in which the sparks, live cinders, and other heavy particles are arrested near the top of the stack." It consists of a petticoat-pipe, arranged so that it may be raised or lowered for the purpose of regulating the draft.
Date:
January 5, 1875
Creator:
Cleary, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for an improvement in seed-planters, illustration included.
Date:
January 26, 1875
Creator:
Garner, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for an improved ditching machine design that will "easily and rapidly cut or excavate, on the surface of the ground, soil, clay, or soft stone, a ditch or trench of any reasonable width or depth suitable" (lines 33-37) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Machines.
Patent for improvements in earth-boring machines with new design and connections, including illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Motors for Operating Churns.
Patent for "a simple and effective motive power for operating the dashers of churns; and it consists of a suitable frame-work provided with a fly-wheel, operated by a pitman attached to a bar projecting from brackets on the side of an ordinary rocking-chair, said fly-wheel being provided with cogs upon one side, which mesh into the cogs on a smaller wheel, which caries a crank for operating the dasher of the churn, a suitable belt being arranged upon the rim of the fly-wheel and around a small pulley for setting in motion a rotary fan." (Lines 13-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 15, 1878
Creator:
Crump, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
Date:
January 14, 1873
Creator:
Saunders, David R.
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 Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.
Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Sawing-Machines.
Patent for improved sawing-machine, which can be operated either horizontally or vertically so that trees may be felled and cut up with one machine, the driving mechanism of which is in a protective housing.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Morey, Harvey & Bellah, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
Patent for a new improvement in the construction of road-scrapers to make them more facilitating, faster, and with less animal power required.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Tate, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns
Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Gray, Whitley F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improved design of the plow consisting of a modified foot of the plow and curved blade. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "an improved fastening or tie for cotton-bales, &c.; and it consists of two angular plates, secured at the rear part to one end of the band generally used in baling cotton, &c., and the front part thereof being provided with V-shaped jaws, which engage with angular slots in the opposite end of the band." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 30, 1877
Creator:
Hanson, Asbury J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History