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Boring and Mortising Machine. (open access)

Boring and Mortising Machine.

Patent for a machine to bore square holes in substitute for a chisel and reduce labor, including illustration. The inventor calls it a "Mortise and Tenon Machine."
Date: July 11, 1848
Creator: Swingle, Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.

Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1859
Creator: Stockbridge, Elam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines. (open access)

Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.

Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
Date: July 30, 1850
Creator: Milner, George B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress. (open access)

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for millstone dress using mill stone.
Date: July 20, 1858
Creator: Loy, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress. (open access)

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1854
Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows. (open access)

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
Portable Oven. (open access)

Portable Oven.

Patent for outdoor use of the Dutch oven and skillet converting the cover of the Dutch oven as a way to suspend frying pan or gridiron over coals to heat, including illustration.
Date: July 12, 1859
Creator: Morrel, Z. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Planting Cotton-Seed. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Planting Cotton-Seed.

Patent for a machine to clear top soil and dispense seed into soil when moving forward, including illustration.
Date: July 5, 1859
Creator: Morrel, Z. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Excavating and Grading Machine. (open access)

Excavating and Grading Machine.

Patent for a cultivating machine that pulverizes colds of soil using a revolving cylinder of blades, including illustration.
Date: July 19, 1859
Creator: Morrel, Z. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book-Sewing Machine. (open access)

Book-Sewing Machine.

Patent for improvements in book sewing machines, the descriptions are included by figures.
Date: July 16, 1867
Creator: Sims, Ferdinand
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Saw-Gummer. (open access)

Improved Saw-Gummer.

Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1865
Creator: Fosterm A. K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Oscillating Steam-Engine (open access)

Improvement in Oscillating Steam-Engine

Patent for improvements to steam-engines that employ oscillating cylinders for the drive-shaft.
Date: July 6, 1869
Creator: Richer, F. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Side-Saddle. (open access)

Improved Side-Saddle.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in side-saddles, and consists in forming the saddle-tress hollow, or with air-chambers within." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1870
Creator: Smith, Fenwick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Cleaners.

Patent for improvements to cotton picking and cleaning before the cotton is ginned.
Date: July 4, 1871
Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Photographing Children

Patent for an improvement in machines for taking Photographs of small children.
Date: July 4, 1871
Creator: Sloan, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows (open access)

Improvement in Plows

Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.
Date: July 6, 1869
Creator: Cummins, A. G. & Cummins, J. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Tooth (open access)

Saw Tooth

Patent for "Improvement in Saw Teeth" (line 3)
Date: July 12, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides (open access)

Improved Machine for Breaking and Scouring Hides

Patent for machinery for tanning animal hides.
Date: July 20, 1869
Creator: Bean, W. O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Axles. (open access)

Improvement in Carriage-Axles.

Patent for an easily replaceable and self-lubricating carriage axle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1870
Creator: Hall, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter. (open access)

Carbureter.

Patent for a new and improved carburetor. This design calls for "the apparatus [to be] submerged in water for the purpose of equalizing the temperature of the carbureting-liquid, and thereby imparting a more uniform illuminating quality to the gas; also obviating the danger of explosion from access of flame to the exterior of the apparatus" (para. 2).
Date: July 18, 1876
Creator: Pollard, James M. & Barton, Wallace R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims. (open access)

Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims.

Patent for a "new and Improved Extension Hat Brim" (lines 3-4) with folding arms to extend the brim, including illustrations.
Date: July 8, 1873
Creator: Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Gun-Locks. (open access)

Improvement In Gun-Locks.

Patent for "new and useful improvement in Gun-Lock" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 14, 1874
Creator: Grisham, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Traps. (open access)

Improvement in Ant-Traps.

Patent for catching burrowing insects, especially for large ants.
Date: July 15, 1873
Creator: Rubarth, Leander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1874
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L
System: The Portal to Texas History