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Improvement in Scrapers.
Patent for a horse-drawn excavator that includes a scoop attached to wheels.
Date:
June 16, 1874
Creator:
Arcos, Ignacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medicinal Extracts.
Patent for the extract of Dasylirion graminifolium. This describes the method of acquiring the extract as well as illnesses the extra is purported to treat.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Bihl, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1874
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Hats
Patent for an improvement to adjustable hatband which includes directions and illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1877
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dining-Tables.
Patent for an improved dining table with a rotating food service, a water reservoir and fountain, and an elevated wine bucket. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
November 14, 1876
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Extension Hat-Brims.
Patent for a "new and Improved Extension Hat Brim" (lines 3-4) with folding arms to extend the brim, including illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1873
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in extension hat-brims.
Patent for "a new and Improved Extension Hat-Brim" (lines 3-4) which can be extended or folded back by the wearer. Includes illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1873
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adjustable Hats.
Patent for a mechanism improving the ability to adjust the shape of a hat to fit different sized heads. The patent is for an "adjustable attachment for enlarging and contracting" the hat's design.
Date:
August 30, 1873
Creator:
Cassiano, Ygnacio I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Pedal Attachments.
Patent for improved piano-pedal attachments which would help "children who are not able to reach the regular pedals; by hooking the stool to the regular pedal-support and setting the connecting-rods in the little sockets in the piano-pedals." (Lines [9-14]) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 14, 1876
Creator:
Cheesman, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for an improvement in animal traps to catch animals without bait, including illustrations.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
De Vilbiss, John W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gun-Locks.
Patent for "a novel application of hair-trigger catch to the main trigger, which operates together with a holder and separate springs." (Lines 30-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1870
Creator:
Deutz, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for an improved windmill, including illustrations, consisting of an arrangement of "three stationary sails between arms on central shaft, so as to obtain double or increased power from the air passing through the wheel." (lines 7-10)
Date:
December 2, 1879
Creator:
Dewees, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sand-Conveyers.
Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.
Date:
July 17, 1877
Creator:
Garcia, Rufino C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements applicable to a gang of plows. Ability to adjust depth, security of plow arms, and can plow three rows at once.
Date:
March 18, 1879
Creator:
Gifford, George Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Station-Indicators.
Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Harris, Pliny H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement to "class of bale-ties in which the bands are secured by means of a fastening or key which passes through slots in the ends of the band." (lines 13-16)
Date:
April 2, 1878
Creator:
Howard, William Henry; Broussard, Camille E. & Hutchins, Rush M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fences.
Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 23, 1872
Creator:
Lerick, Isaac N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Planters, Cultivators, and Stalk-Choppers.
Patent for a combined planter, cultivator, and chopper.
Date:
May 12, 1874
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddles.
Patent for re-enforcing and strengthening the front of a saddle.
Date:
September 13, 1873
Creator:
McGrath, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shawl-Strap and Head-Rest
Patent for a head rest to be used in cars and other places and can be attached to a seat or shawl, including illustrations.
Date:
March 4, 1879
Creator:
McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ox-Bows.
Patent for improvements to ox-bows so that they "shall not require bending, and which may be made in parts of the country where timber suitable for bending is scarce" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 24, 1870
Creator:
Moore, Alfred L. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coolers for Railroad-Car Journals.
Patent relating to "an apparatus for cooling the journals and boxes of railroad-cars and other vehicles" (lines 27-29). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 15, 1879
Creator:
Morris, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History