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Improved Medical Compound.
Patent for improvements in medical compound.
Date:
January 7, 1868
Creator:
Taylor, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels.
Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 6, 1871
Creator:
Tuder, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reversible Axle-Skeins.
Patent for improvements in reversible axle skeins: "My invention consists of cast mental axle skeins fitted on the axles, whether of wood or iron, so that they can be turned from time to time, as they wear away, to remove the worn place from the wearing position and bring a part not worn thereto." (lines 5-10).
Date:
April 16, 1872
Creator:
Smith, Andrew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Corn-Shellers.
Patent for an improved "Combined Corn Husker, Sheller, and Cleaner" (lines 4-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Creekmore, Hiram C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles.
Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date:
June 10, 1873
Creator:
Hamil, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wash-Boiler Attachments
Patent for the improvement in Steam Wash-Boiler Attachments.
Date:
February 11, 1873
Creator:
Hart, Richard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines.
Patent for an improved design of the rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date:
February 6, 1877
Creator:
Willson, Hodgen I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for a new improvement in agricultural plows that will not clog when used with sticky prairie-soil, including illustration.
Date:
January 27, 1874
Creator:
Ford, Isaac M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plows, Planters, and Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement in combined plows, planters, and cultivators, including illustration.
Date:
February 24, 1874
Creator:
Urban, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Horizontal Hay and Cotton Press
Patent for a press used in the baling of hay or cotton. Device is portable and supposed to improve the baling process.
Date:
February 23, 1875
Creator:
Bennett, Thomas B. & Rancier, Edwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in corn-planters.
Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Meeks, Nathan H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Augers.
Patent for a new and improved earth auger. This design calls for "a hinged door having its edge folded or bent to form an air-tube . . . [and] a pair of hemi-cylindrical doors having on one or both an air duct or ducts," as well as interchangeable bits with a shouldered and threaded shank and a nut combined and arranged in a novel way (paras. 12-15).
Date:
October 30, 1877
Creator:
Fields, Daniel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists, [primarily], of certain devices whereby the coupling-pin raised in the draw-head is supported until the draw-heads strike each other in coupling, when the coupling-pin falls by gravity" (lines 17-21).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Thomason, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the combination, with the follower, the right-and-left-screw, and nuts, of the hinged levers and the bars swiveled thereto; also, in the combination . . . of the slotted bars, the hinged socket, and the swiveled arms; also, in the combination, with the nuts having shoulders and the hinged levers having forked up ends, of the anti-friction rollers journaled in recesses in the said nuts; also . . . of the curved and flattened swiveled arms, whereby the lower ends of the said follower-bars can have a lateral movement" (lines 23-38).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a draw-head, the laterally-movable pin-retaining arms supported therein, and a pivoted wing normally held in the path of an approaching link, and arranged to distend the arms to drop the pin when acted on by the links" (lines 30-35).
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Thomason, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for an improvement in the construction and design of combined cotton and corn planters.
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Hawkins, Jackson D. & Ray, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a vertical hook car coupling that also couple air-brakes. In the invention "the drawheads are provided with interlocking tongues to prevent the disconnection of the drawheads by vertical movement; the interlocking faces of the drawheads are provided with sockets to receive a plug for completing the air passage for the train pipes; the drawheads are provided with means for receiving the ordinary hose-coupling on cars not provided with [the] drawhead, and finally other features of [the] invention are the means for securing the drawhead to the car and for uncoupling" (lines 14-25).
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Ervin, Robert N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars
Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "a press of this character by means of which a direct stroke will be given to the plunger, the latter permitted to rebound by the recoil of the hay, and the hay properly held in position" (lines 8-12).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Hallam, Leigh H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton, Corn, And Sorghum Planter
Patent for improvements to a previously made patent serial no. 287,764: the improvements would include adjustable feed disks, simple and adjustable means of regulating the feed of the seed, bracing rods for the drill, and improvements in construction of the frame and hopper.
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Schofield, Jake Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "a new and improved machine of this character embodying continuous power mechanism, whereby the plunger is automatically operated. . .the employment, in connection with the press, of a plunger provided with a spring-actuated face, whereby the plunger is caused to rebound after each stroke for the purpose herein specified. . .to provide tension mechanism whereby both sides of the baling-chamber are tightened or released by a single adjustment" (13-26).
Date:
June 18, 1889
Creator:
Paty, John F. & Bigham, Ambrose W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for new and improved construction of the class of machine baling press.
Date:
October 29, 1889
Creator:
Forniraseo, Domaneco
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design is "to place two baling-chambers at a suitable angle to each other and to connect both of the followers to the same sweep; to attach each of the filling-doors of the baling-chambers to the sweep, so that when one door closes from its own weight the other will be opened by the movement of the sweep, and to provide each of the filling doors with an automatically-acting bolt mechanism, whereby the movement of the follower bolts the door, so that it cannot be opened upward by the pressure of hay that is being pressed" (lines 15-26).
Date:
March 4, 1890
Creator:
Spencer, Anderson Hood
System:
The Portal to Texas History