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Improvement in Corn-Planters.

Patent for a corn-planter that allows the seed to be placed in a hopper and disperses the seed through a cylinder that is connected to a wheel to place and cover the seed, including illustration.

Date: May 10, 1859

Creator: Gilbert, R. B.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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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

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for the improvement of the hopper, stirrer, and distributor in cotton-planters that dispenses seeds into the soil using two horizontal united disks that discharges the seeds regularly and evenly, including illustration.

Date: September 13, 1859

Creator: Collier, T. T.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for the improvement of the cotton-seed planter through the arrangement of a seed dispenser over a reciprocating slide and agitator operated by a pulley system simultaneously when moving forward, including illustration.

Date: September 13, 1859

Creator: Smith, P. M. & Collier, T. T.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.

Patent for the improvement of fertilizer-distributer which dispense fertilizers from a hopper with revolving arms that is mounted on top of a plow like machine, which would allow the fertilizers fall into the furrow. Including illustration.

Date: September 27, 1859

Creator: Morrel, Z. N.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.

Date: April 28, 1868

Creator: Kidd, I. J.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Corn-Planters

Patent for a construction that will act as a plow, and aid in the process of planting corn. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.

Date: September 8, 1868

Creator: Kidd, I. J.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improved Suspender for Scissors.

Patent for a means to suspend scissors by a pulley method. Includes instructions and illustrations.

Date: December 15, 1868

Creator: Kuttner, J. H.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Patent for improvement in brick machines by “providing the mixing and grinding-shaft with arms at the bottom, adapted in form and arrangement for pressing the clay through the openings, in the bottom of the curb, into the moulds, below, which rest on ways above a sliding carrier, provided with brackets, for forcing the moulds out.” (Lines 26-34) Illustration is included.

Date: May 4, 1869

Creator: Morgan, Asa

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Machines for Bending Stirrups.

Patent for an invention that "is to provide a simple and efficient machine for bending and shaping stirrups for saddles" (lines 10-12). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.

Date: February 1, 1870

Creator: Forest, Demsey

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for improvements in valves used in rotary engines.

Date: May 9, 1871

Creator: Hughes, Robert

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.

Patent for improvements on machinery for the manufacture of ice.

Date: August 29, 1871

Creator: Sears, James E.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Gate-Latches.

Patent for improvements in gate latches: "to provide a self closing latch, simple in its construction and easy f operation" (lines 18-19).

Date: September 26, 1871

Creator: Lee, John H.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.

Patent for improvements in cotton hoes: "such as are employed in thinning cotton and other plants" ( lines 16-17).

Date: September 26, 1897

Creator: Sims, Zachariah B.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Washing-Machines.

Patent for improvements in washing machines.

Date: October 10, 1871

Creator: Lee, John H.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvement in Chairs.

Patent for improvements in chairs: "the back, seat, foot rest, and head rest are all self adjusting, and operated by the natural movements of the occupant" (lines 11-13).

Date: April 16, 1872

Creator: Haupt, William W.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.

Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.

Date: December 5, 1871

Creator: Bond, Virgil A.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Churn-Top.

Patent for a churn top, which prevents the milk from splashing out of the churn while it is in use and keeps out bugs and dirt.

Date: February 1, 1910

Creator: Lewis, Lola

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History

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Peanut-Digger.

Patent for machine that extracts peanuts while avoiding losing nitrogen from the root in the process. Machine severs plants from the roots and raises the whole plant in order to release loose dirt, then gathers the. plants using a rake-like mechanism.

Date: August 30, 1921

Creator: Smith, Morman J. & Browder, Benjamin F.

Object Type: Patent

System: The Portal to Texas History