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Brick-Machine. (open access)

Brick-Machine.

Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1848
Creator: Wilson, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses. (open access)

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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines. (open access)

Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.

Patent for improving the cut-off of steam-engines through a simple valve motion, including illustration.
Date: July 30, 1850
Creator: Milner, George B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Curing Meat, &c. (open access)

Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.

Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1846
Creator: Allen, Augustus C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fish-Hooks. (open access)

Improvement in Fish-Hooks.

Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.
Date: April 11, 1854
Creator: Sigler, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Steam-Engine. (open access)

Rotary Steam-Engine.

Patent for the improvement of the rotary engine through the arrangement of passages and system of pistons for a more simple construction with little friction, including illustration.
Date: August 16, 1859
Creator: Montjoy, George J. & Sawyer, J. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides. (open access)

Improvement in Circular-Saw Guides.

Patent for a new and improved arrangement of guides for circular saws. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1868
Creator: Milner, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Mode of Preserving Meat. (open access)

Improved Mode of Preserving Meat.

Patent for a process that claims to preserve meat. The patent includes only instructions and no illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1868
Creator: Perl, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Teapot. (open access)

Coffee and Teapot.

Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Heiss, Gregor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Engines. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Engines.

Patent for rotary engines "driven by steam or other elastic agent, or which may be used for pumping water" (lines 29-32) to obtain "a more direct application of the force applied to drive the engine" (lines 39-40) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1872
Creator: Richardson, John Dun
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines. (open access)

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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Subsoil-Plows.

Patent for an improvement upon subsoil plows, using a series of spades arranged upon the same pulleyed rotary shaft, combined with furrow-opening plows.
Date: March 28, 1871
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Expanding Mandrels. (open access)

Improvements in Expanding Mandrels.

Patent for improvements in expanding mandrels by way of an expanding-chuck.
Date: January 23, 1872
Creator: Simons, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains. (open access)

Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.

Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: April 27, 1869
Creator: Wright, Reuben
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machine for Cutting Stalks in the Field Preparatory to Plowing. (open access)

Improvement in Machine for Cutting Stalks in the Field Preparatory to Plowing.

Patent for improvement in machine for clearing cotton and corn-fields of the stalks after the crops have been gathered by “providing a revolving drum or roller with knives, set spirally around it, which cut the stalks of cotton or corn-fields into pieces of any desired length, for the purpose of being plowed under the surface for fertilizing, by rolling it over them.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date: May 4, 1869
Creator: Wright, Reuben
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
Date: February 7, 1871
Creator: Lister, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person (open access)

Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person

Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Raiford, Philip H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses (open access)

Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
Date: August 9, 1870
Creator: Stopple, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses.

Patent for improving the cotton and hay press.
Date: August 8, 1871
Creator: McGowen, Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges. (open access)

Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.

Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1871
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Axle-Boxes, Sand-Bands, and Casings for Carriage-Wheel Hubs. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Axle-Boxes, Sand-Bands, and Casings for Carriage-Wheel Hubs.

Patent for improvements in combined axle-boxes, sand-bands, and casings for carriage-wheel hubs. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date: December 26, 1871
Creator: McNalley, Micheal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.

Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Perl, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Anchor for Animals. (open access)

Improved Anchor for Animals.

Patent for improvement in animals’ anchor in which it allow the animals to graze without being twisted or wound up the rope by using the combination of a swiveled loop and a pivoted loop with each other, and a pin. “This pin is made with four wings, or radial longitudinal flanges, tapering to a point at its lower end and is readily forced into the ground, and easily drawn out, but will resist a very strong side-draught.” (Lines23-27) Illustration is included.
Date: June 8, 1869
Creator: Raiford, P. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Furnaces. (open access)

Improvement in Furnaces.

Patent for improvements in furnaces, using steam to create heat. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: April 12, 1870
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History