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Air-Chamber.
Patent for an air-chamber that pumps in air confined with a flexible diaphragm to spray or diffuse fluid, including illustration.
Date:
June 18, 1861
Creator:
Creuzbaur, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller of Machinery to be used in Currents.
Patent for a propelled water wheel that is attached to the back of a vessel that uses a current of water and stream power, including illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1851
Creator:
Hardie, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Cotton Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators: "designed more especially for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth away from the young plants, and thinning out the same" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 18, 1866
Creator:
Foster, A. K. & Foster, B. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tenoning-Machines
Patent for an improvement in tenoning-machines, including saws, gauges, flanges, and hinged plates.
Date:
April 18, 1871
Creator:
Bourland, Melton S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Kirtley, Fielding L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Horse-Power.
Patent for an improvement in horse-powers (tread-powers) by changing the construction and arrangement of the driving wheels.
Date:
May 18, 1869
Creator:
Dillaha, J. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for improvements in cotton picking machines.
Date:
October 18, 1870
Creator:
Dreeson, Bartholdt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses
Patent for "a new and improved cotton-press" (line 3) using a stationary toothed wheel, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1870
Creator:
Booton, Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 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
Improvement in Bale-Tie Clamps.
Patent for an instrument that tightens the ties used for bales of cotton.
Date:
November 18, 1873
Creator:
Leoneard, Thomas Dunlap
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "plow mold-boards to which the black land of Texas, and other similar soils, will not adhere, so that a furrow can be turned, however sticky and waxy the soil may be." (lines 14-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 18, 1875
Creator:
Bell, Francis R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.
Patent for new and useful improvement in wagon hubs that includes one-piece attachment and spokes that can be cut by metal strips by exposed to no injury, including illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1873
Creator:
McNalley, Michael
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 Vibrating Propellers
Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Macowitzky, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in waching machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1873
Creator:
Millegan, William E.
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 the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tube-Expanders.
Patent for improvements to tube expanders with springs rigidly secured at one end, detachable rolls, and the ability to fit tubes of different sizes.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Rooney, Hugh L
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dish Cleaners and Drainers.
Patent for a convenient and cheap article of household ware for washing dishes, glassware, and similar articles of household use.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Harper, Elijah S., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus
Patent for improvement to an ironing apparatus to "produce a cheap portable ironing-machine, with which any capable person (and even children) can with very liggle fatigue and labor, do the ironing for a large family in a very short time".
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Martin, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Faucets.
Patent for "an improved faucet, which shall be so constructed that it will not be liable to be injured by being screwed into and out of the cask, which will not be liable to leak, which will have the button of the valve-stem protected from accidental injury, and shall be simple in construction and easily operated." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Lempert, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells.
Patent for an improvement to a mechanism that externally strikes a bell to ring it, "applicable to fire, hotel, school, church, factory and other bells. By it the striking may be performed with great rapidity and regularity" (para. 10).
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Perry, Elton
System:
The Portal to Texas History