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Improvement in Steam-Engines.
Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Masks for Horses and Cattle.
Patent for a slitted leather mask for animals to be used for horses, cattle, etc. to deter the jumping of fences. Patent for "mask, covering the eyes of the animal, leaves him with a sufficiently free vision, and being thoroughly ventilated, will not injure his eyes".
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Trueblood, Albert H
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles.
Patent relating to "that class of shingle-machines which form the shingles by means of a knife working sidewise with the grain" (lines 10-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in cane-strippers.
Patent for an improvement in sugar-cane stripping machines, using an arrangement of rollers and a movable spring blade. Includes illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
James, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Tracks.
Patent for improvements in the adjoining of railway tracks.
Date:
July 23, 1878
Creator:
Cottingham, Gideon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames.
Patent relating to improvement "of quilting-frames made with folding ends and adjustable in width" (lines 10-12). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History