Improvement in Water-Proof Joints for Roofing-Boards. (open access)

Improvement in Water-Proof Joints for Roofing-Boards.

Patent for the improvement of water-proof joints for roofing-boards, including illustrations.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: Beazely, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.

Patent for improved bale-tie fastener with flattened hook.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: Davis, Waters S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps. (open access)

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 Permutation-Locks (open access)

Improvement in Permutation-Locks

Patent for an improvement in permutation locks.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: Hall, Phidello W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds

Patent for improvement in insect,specifically cotton worms, destroying compounds . Included list of chemicals and measures of amount used.
Date: March 3, 1874
Creator: Johnson, Jehu W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic-Gates. (open access)

Improvement in Automatic-Gates.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Farm-Gates" (lines 3-4) allowing persons riding to open and close a swinging gate.
Date: March 3, 1874
Creator: Kenney, Martin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Reissued patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton press: "The invention consists in operating the nut of a follower-screw by means of a drive-pinion, whose own shaft is actuated alternately in opposite directions, by a friction-wheel" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Knowles, William Wadsworth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers. (open access)

Improvement in Road-Scrapers.

Patent for an improvement in road-scrapers, illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1874
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chair-Backs. (open access)

Improvement in Chair-Backs.

Patent for chair back.
Date: March 10, 1874
Creator: Perrenet, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Frames for Cultivators, Scrapers, & c. (open access)

Improvement in Frames for Cultivators, Scrapers, & c.

Patent for “a new and useful improvement in Combined, Cultivator, Scraper, and Dumping-Cart” (lines 4-7) including illustration.
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: Rabb, John Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for the invention of a new and improved type of adjustable plow, including illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1874
Creator: White, Moses F.
System: The Portal to Texas History