Improvement in Saws. (open access)

Improvement in Saws.

Patent for improvements to circular or straight saws that steady the saw and prevent vibration and buckling. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 19, 1871
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saws. (open access)

Improvement in Saws.

Patent for improvement in saws by way of the construction of beveled edged teeth with concave sides.
Date: April 26, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, C. V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Trusses. (open access)

Improvement in Trusses.

Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
Date: September 27, 1870
Creator: Baker, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers. (open access)

Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.

Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
Date: May 17, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Elevators. (open access)

Improvement in Elevators.

Patent for improvements in elevators, for lifting heavy objects. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: June 13, 1871
Creator: Bishop, Josiah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth. (open access)

Improvement in Methods of Forming Saw-Teeth.

Patent for "a rule for giving to the backs of saw-teeth such an angle as will allow the teeth to be made of proper strength and at the same time to be chambered out and pointed so that they will cut the wood like chisels instead of scraping or tearing the wood." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 19, 1871
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb V.
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
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 Head-Rest. (open access)

Improved Head-Rest.

Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.

Patent for a cotton-picking machine that "consists in a set of saws mounted on a truck, and geared with the driving-wheels, to run in the tops of the plants...and detach the cotton and convey it to a brushing-roller above, which detaches the cotton from the saws and delivers it into a receptacle behind." (Lines 10-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 23, 1870
Creator: McRae, Daniel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Loading Fire-Arm (open access)

Breech-Loading Fire-Arm

Patent for a new and improved breech-loading firearm. This design "consists in the devices for opening the breech-block and ejecting the cartridge-shell by one and the same motion that cocks the gun, and also in a spring and pitman arranged with the breech-block" (para. 2).
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement on Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter.
Date: June 23, 1874
Creator: Domschke, Carles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Wheels. (open access)

Improvement in Water-Wheels.

Patent for improvements in the construction of water-wheels, including illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1878
Creator: Cross, David L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Toy Trumpets. (open access)

Improvement in Toy Trumpets.

Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
Date: September 12, 1876
Creator: Sterzing, Fred.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers. (open access)

Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.

Patent for an improved stalk-puller for use in pulling cotton-stalks in preparing the land for another crop.
Date: September 19, 1876
Creator: Brown, Robert D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Irons. (open access)

Improvement in Flat-Irons.

Patent for improvement in flat-irons, with description and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1875
Creator: Sterzing, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Boxes. (open access)

Improvement in Paper Boxes.

Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.
Date: March 7, 1876
Creator: Kuehne, Franz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices For Ringing Bells. (open access)

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
Improvement in Saddle-Trees. (open access)

Improvement in Saddle-Trees.

Patent for "an improvement in riding-saddles, designed to secure greater strength in the pommel and fork; and it consists in forming the fork of the saddle-tree and the pommel from malleable cast-iron, and in one and the same piece, the neck of the pommel being cast hollow for greater lightness, with the upper end of the casting open, which opening is closed by a surmounting cap of wood or other material, which finishes the pommel." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: Still, Henry C. & Still, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps. (open access)

Improvement in Postage or Revenue Stamps.

Patent for an improvement in postage or revenue stamps. Patent for postage or revenue stamp "composed of two superposed sheets or layers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back". Patent for postage and revenue stamps that cannot be re-used.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Beaumont, David G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a "new and improved corn and cotton planter" (lines 3-4), to plant both cotton and corn seed,including instructions and illustrations. The configuration includes a new combination of parts.
Date: December 25, 1877
Creator: Domschke, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.

Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1875
Creator: Clements, William
System: The Portal to Texas History